I always have a lot going on,
here's what I'm doing now:
I'm writing I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS! for Haymarket Books …
while hosting and producing the weekly podcast Says Who …
and producing season two of the award-winning Rebel Spirit podcast …
and helping run the Civic Media Fellowships at USC …
and printing and shipping whistles (... & counting) all over the country with a crew of awesome people …
and shipping merch I make for you …
and also making stickers for the Says Who Sticker Club …
and OK that's enough.
My most recent blog posts
A Well-Aimed Potato: The Klan, Notre Dame, and Today
With the Trump administration embracing anti-Catholic rhetoric, I wrote about a time a hundred years ago when Catholic students from Notre Dame beat the shit out of the Klan. A feel good story for the ages.
Posted on Apr 17, 2026
Foundational Texts: Raised by the Channel Five News Team
The third installment in the monthly Foundational Texts series looks at the iconic 1980s Channel 5 News Team, and the things they taught me when I was young and now that I am old.
Posted on Mar 31, 2026
Porous Barriers That Divide Then From Now
I came to Muncie, Indiana this week for this moment: March 24th, the night that George Dale's life changed forever. Even 104 years later, the reverberations of history stay close.
Posted on Mar 24, 2026
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- cruise the hormuz
Released by Says Who? on Apr 22, 2026
- you got vanced
Released by Says Who? on Apr 15, 2026
- party like it's 1999
Released by Says Who? on Apr 8, 2026
- where there's smoke
Released by Says Who? on Apr 1, 2026
- a jar in a skirt
Released by Says Who? on Mar 18, 2026
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My most recent notes
I write a lot of notes in shortform social apps like Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky. I also capture them on this site, so the platforms don't control my stuff. Here are a few. You can always look at my notes page for more.
Just wrote a text: "When you're ready do you want to take first crack at writing the end of the Civil War?" Must be Rebel Spirit season...
posted at 11:46AM on April 22, 2026
The thing I think about whenever Palentir comes up is that I once played Werewolf sitting next to a guy that worked at Palentir and he spent the entire time trying to convince me that the company wasn't evil while simultaneously picking off every villager in the game.
posted at 8:23PM on April 19, 2026
The thing that is hard about writing is conclusions. Also introductions. And the middle stuff.
posted at 1:49PM on April 17, 2026
One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost. 
posted at 9:20AM on April 17, 2026
Happy the shittiest tax day in recent memory.
posted at 8:05AM on April 15, 2026
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Updated April 22, 2026. This page is inspired by @nownownow.