I always have a lot going on,
here's what I'm doing now:
I'm producing the podcast Rebel Spirit, with Akilah Hughes …
and 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 wow that is a lot.
My most recent blog posts
Taking Things Apart (in three parts)
I wrote about how you can learn by taking things apart, about how geeky electronics were transformed by the global supply chain, and about how nothing happening in in the administration right now is about fixing broken things.
Posted on Apr 11, 2025
Old Growth: Punk Planet, Year 11
It's sort of impossible to believe just how many things we did in the 11th year of Punk Planet. Issues! Books! A whole new magazine! A look back at a year of explosive growth.
Posted on Mar 28, 2025
Right now it feels impossible to get anything done, but we all have to. So I wrote about how I'm trying to break my doom spiral by doing one thing.
Posted on Mar 16, 2025
- deathvance
Released by Says Who? on Apr 23, 2025
- soup bucket
Released by Says Who? on Apr 16, 2025
- vote for rebel spirit to win a webby!
Released by Rebel Spirit on Apr 15, 2025
- meat on that rat
Released by Says Who? on Apr 9, 2025
- stretch that lentil
Released by Says Who? on Apr 2, 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.
We gotta bring back calling that guy a couchfucker
posted at 9:48PM on April 22, 2025
these fucks have no idea what they’re doing one day to the next. 
posted at 4:35PM on April 22, 2025
“Tesla said Tuesday that its profits fell 71 percent in the first three months of the year”
Is that a lot?
posted at 4:27PM on April 22, 2025
Blinks in Rebel Spirit
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/2...
posted at 10:25AM on April 22, 2025
End stage capitalism, but make it food.
posted at 12:11PM on April 19, 2025
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Updated April 24, 2025. This page is inspired by @nownownow.