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
Things End: Punk Planet, Year 13
For more than a year, I've been writing essays about Punk Planet, the influential, incredible, miracle of a magazine I worked on for 13 years. For more than a year I've been dreading writing this ending, because the reality is this: Sometimes things end and you never, totally get over it.
Posted on May 30, 2025
We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks.
Posted on May 23, 2025
Things Fall Apart: Punk Planet, Year 12
Memory is a real son of a bitch. I thought I remembered the last painful years of Punk Planet vividly. Looking across the wreckage of Year 12, our next-to-last year, it turns out there was a lot I didn't remember.
Posted on Apr 30, 2025
- never ever ever ever ever ever ever
Released by Says Who? on Jun 4, 2025
- no one wants your pants
Released by Says Who? on May 28, 2025
- good luck boss
Released by Says Who? on May 21, 2025
- the one where dan goes to the friends experience
Released by Says Who? on May 14, 2025
- no no soapy
Released by Says Who? on May 7, 2025
Recent podcast episodes
- Chris Estrada Is the Hardest Working Man in Comedy
Published by Esquire on Jul 28, 2023
- When Everything Happened So Much
Published by Slate on Nov 5, 2022
- Parenting in the Age of School Shootings
Published by Esquire on Jun 3, 2022
- Jeff Tweedy Knows Good Days
Published by Esquire on May 3, 2022
- If We're Back to 'Normal,' Why Am I Still So Exhausted All the Time?
Published by Esquire on Mar 14, 2022
- The Wrestler
Published by Esquire on Feb 28, 2022
Other recent writing
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.
Picked a hell of a week for my mom to die.
posted at 8:29PM on June 12, 2025
I'm very checked out this week because of reasons, but I love Los Angeles so much for all the reasons that these fuckers hate it and I thought I'd share this bit of writing I did about LA during the fires: dansinker.com/posts/202...
posted at 9:28PM on June 10, 2025
Deploying ICE, the Border Patrol, the LAPD, the LA County Sheriffs, and now the National Guard and maybe the Marines over a small protest at a Home Depot is not the show of force they think it is.
posted at 7:57AM on June 8, 2025
Not gonna brag or anything but I just beat a nine year old at Magic: The Gathering.
posted at 4:57PM on June 7, 2025
Chicago remains undefeated.
posted at 11:37AM on June 7, 2025
Read more notes at Mastodon or Bluesky, or check out my notes page.
Updated June 14, 2025. This page is inspired by @nownownow.