Dan Sinker/now

I always have a lot going on, here's what I'm doing now:

I'm hosting and producing the weekly podcast Says Who …

while helping run the Civic Media Fellowships at USC …

and shipping the patches and stickers I made for you …

and also making stickers for the Says Who Sticker Club …

and plotting some new things …

which I hope to tell you about soon.

My most recent blog posts

A Visit With The Stamp King

I took my dad's modest stamp collection to Chicago's last stamp dealer. The money wasn't good, but it was a perfect end.

Posted on Jul 18, 2025

Three Escapes

Sometimes you need to step out for a second, to take yourself out of the here and now and go somewhere else. With everything so *waves hands in all directions* right now, here are three places I'm going, if only for a moment.

Posted on Jul 11, 2025

Gathering Grief

A meditation on death, grief, and the card game Magic: The Gathering.

Posted on Jul 3, 2025

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.

I wrote a post about visiting the last stamp store in Chicago and living a life that’s fun, but worthless. I really like this one, hope you do too. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Full chaos inside The Stamp King.

posted at 3:22PM on July 18, 2025

Is there a picture of the pube-signature yet or are we just going by description still

posted at 9:32PM on July 17, 2025

While the Washington Post continues its decline let's remember that just earlier this year some clown in management set a goal of getting 200 million readers, an impossible number that will never happen. Ms. Watford, who joined The Post in May, also laid out big-picture goals for the company. Among them: reach 200 million paying users, which the slide deck described as a “Big Hairy Audacious Goal,” or “B.H.A.G.”&10;&10;The slide deck compares the 200 million target with efforts to land a man on the moon — and it is an ambitious goal: The Post currently has fewer than three million digital subscribers; The Times, an industry leader, has roughly 11 million total subscribers.

posted at 9:14AM on July 17, 2025

Went to sell my dad's stamp collection today and the store was full chaos mode and the guy had a waxed mustache and gave me $25 and said "these are fun but worthless" and the whole thing was so perfect, an A+ end. A cluttered office space filled with stacks of books, boxes, files, and potted plants.

posted at 7:18PM on July 16, 2025

There might not be a more vividly nostalgic smell than Coppertone sunscreen.

posted at 11:10AM on July 13, 2025

Read more notes at Mastodon or Bluesky, or check out my notes page.

Updated July 20, 2025. This page is inspired by @nownownow.