The Submarine of Czechia: Or, The Life of a Spy at Mar-a-Lago
A version of this short story was originally published in Flaming Hydra, an art collective I'm proud to be a part of. This is most definitely a work of...
Yearning for the Apocalypse
As chaos and violence break out across the Middle East in a war led by the US with Israel as junior partner, I wanted to revisit my research on Christian...
Notable Sandwiches #140: Sloppy Joe
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...
Notable Sandwiches #139: Roti Bakar
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...
Notable Sandwiches #138: Reuben
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...
Notable Sandwiches #137: Po' Boy
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...
Notable Sandwiches #136: Peanut Butter & Jelly
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where David & I traipse through the garden of earthly delights that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Notable Sandwiches #135: Patty Melt
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where David and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches, in alphabetical order. This...
My Own Inner Elba
Let me start by saying that the news is incredibly awful. I’m very aware of this, in the way you’re aware of, say, a ninety-seven degree day with one hundred...
Notable Sandwiches #133 & #134: Pasty Barm & Pattie Butty
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where we trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Notable Sandwiches #132: Pastrami
Hello, and welcome back to the Sword and the Sandwich! I’ve been struggling with a particularly pernicious case of writer’s block, for months now. Not being...
We Keep Us Safe: On Antifa
This past Saturday, Donald Trump announced that his administration would be deploying federal troops to Portland, OR, authorizing the military to use “full...
September Book Club
Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where my editor David Swanson and I discuss what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid...
The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting
Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I discuss what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers. As...
Ministry of Violence
James Dobson is dead, leaving behind the legacy of poisoned politics he created, and countless children and adults who live with the pain of surviving the...
Princes of the City
Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I discuss what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers. This...
Let Us Now Praise Eater.com
If you’ve been reading this newsletter long enough—and bother clicking through the links—you may have noticed that Eater.com is an invaluable resource for...
A Queer Shoulder to the Wheel
A version of this piece was originally published in Flaming Hydra, an art collective I'm proud to be a part of. Then I let David loose to edit as he does so...
The Great Sword Heist of 2025
Your regular sandwich feature has been held up by a robbery. Quite seriously, I couldn’t focus on pastrami this week because … my entire sword collection was...
July Culture Chat
Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I discuss what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers. BECOME...