Most of the time my thoughts aren't long enough for a blog post. My shortform notes get posted on Mastodon and Bluesky, and also wind up here.
I ended the indictment.fyi newsletter tonight and I feel a little guilty about it, so as penance, maybe, or out of a feeling that if I've taken something out of the world maybe I should also put something back in, here's three things I've been particularly excited about lately. Here's three for flinching.
Read "Three For Flinching" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/2024-04-14-three-for-flinching/
posted at 7:00PM on April 13, 2024
Fresh out of college and in need of a job I landed in the production department of the Chicago Reader. Now, 30 years later, I'm back to help rebuild its legacy on the web.
Read "I'm Back with Scars to Show" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/reader/
posted at 6:00PM on February 27, 2024
I've loved the typeface Cooper Black long before I knew what it was. Big, bold, and forever it's over 100 years old and still makes me so happy every time I see it. I made a simple patch to celebrate Cooper Black, the greatest of typefaces.
Read "Cooper Black, A Love Story & A Patch" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/cooperblack/
posted at 6:00PM on January 7, 2024
I'm quitting 2023. After 364 days, today will be my last day. My tenure here has not been a good one and I requested an exit interview with HR so that 2023 can understand why I'm leaving and perhaps, how it might do better in the future.
Read "2023, The Exit Interview" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/2023exit/
posted at 6:00PM on December 30, 2023
2023 was a lot of hard things, but losing Sinead O'Connor and Pee-Wee Herman within a few days of each other felt especially cruel. At the tail end of a difficult year I wrote a small offering to the mystic and man-child that meant so much to those of us that grew up different.
Read "Feel So Different, Remembering Sinead O'Connor and Pee-Wee Herman" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/peeweesinead/
posted at 6:00PM on December 27, 2023
I thought Shane MacGowan was unkillable. If he hadn't died by now, the logic went, with all the drinking and drugs and living harder than most, maybe he never would. HBut, of course, he did.
Read "A Man You Don't Meet Every Day, Remembering Shane MacGowan" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/shane/
posted at 6:00PM on November 29, 2023
When I was younger I tried to build artist/musician/weirdo Laurie Anderson's tape-bow violin from a single sentence description. While I never got it to work quite right, it taught me everything I know about asking "why."
Read "Let X Equal X" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/tapeloop/
posted at 7:00PM on November 2, 2023
I wrote some thoughts on the lonely year that has transpired since Elon Musk took over Twitter.
Read "Year of the Living Dead" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/twitter365/
posted at 7:00PM on October 25, 2023
It's been a minute since I last updated my blog. But that hasn't been because I haven't been doing stuff. In fact, quite the opposite.
Read "Best Laid Plans" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/july/
posted at 7:00PM on July 10, 2023
Every job I've ever stuck with, I've done so because it's felt like a never-ending series of puzzles to solve.
Read "Puzzles All the Way Down" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/puzzles/
posted at 7:00PM on May 10, 2023
Today I'm excited to announce the start of a wholly new, super ambitious project in collaboration with the novelist Joe Meno. Welcome to Question Mark, Ohio.
Read "Believe in Mystery" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/violetbookman/
posted at 7:00PM on April 20, 2023
I've had better months than March 2023, but now that it's basically over I thought I'd take take stock of some of the good work I got done amid the awfulness.
Read "It's All Over But the Crying" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/march/
posted at 7:00PM on March 29, 2023
Earlier this year I wrote about how 2023, for me, is about trying. And then I made a patch to remind myself of that. And people wanted one, so now I've made them and you can get one.
Read "Trying — a patch for you" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/trying-patch/
posted at 6:00PM on February 22, 2023
I wrote about chatbots and magic and a turn-of-the-century spirit medium who spewed images of people from beyond the grave from her mouth. No, really.
Read "Use Your Illusion" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/illusions/
posted at 6:00PM on February 19, 2023
I've been a lot of things, but I was a skater first. And skateboarding has taught me a lot about patience, about falling, and about getting back up.
Read "Skating and Waiting" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/skating/
posted at 6:00PM on February 8, 2023
I wrote about getting wrapped up in British football, about the poison in the brain of every 90s punk kid, and about embracing change.
Read "A Boot to the Head" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/football/
posted at 6:00PM on January 21, 2023
I've been trying my whole life. These last few years I found that I'd stopped.
Read "On Trying" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/trying/
posted at 6:00PM on January 13, 2023
Lately I've been thinking about sad songs and the stories from our lives that resonate between the notes. It made me revisit a work-in-progress about the end of Punk Planet and the saddest song I know.
Read "The Saddest Song I Know" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/transmission/
posted at 6:00PM on January 6, 2023
With the start of a new year, I thought I'd share my journaling method and how using it to reflect on days, months, and years has helped me to (kinda sorta) get my shit together.
Read "I See Reflections of You and Me" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/reflections/
posted at 6:00PM on January 2, 2023
2022 was a middling year in a lot of ways, a shitty year in others, and a great year for culture. Here's 5 things I loved this year.
Read "A Year of Culture" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/culture2022/
posted at 6:00PM on December 30, 2022