Yesterday’s events left me stunned, but it wasn’t until I saw the standard conservative evangelical reactions start rolling in that I became fully infuriated.

Take a look:

As we start a new year with (once the death rattle shenanigans peter out) new leadership, it’s tempting to think that things will slowly start returning to normal. For the most part this will (hopefully) be true, but one of the many ripples of 2020 on American society has been a great “Band-Aid ripping” effect that’s caused many slow but inevitable changes to happen years before anticipated.

As a result, a lot of things are never snapping back into place. Here are my predictions for a few of them…

Commuting and remote work: While it’s possible that we start seeing…

Back before the ugly truth came out, Louis C.K. had a great bit about aging that’s started to resonate more and more with me as I hurtle ever closer to oblivion:

Some things that are now just “like that” for me:

• Socks or slippers are now essential (otherwise my feet become blocks of ice)
• Morning coffee isn’t just a suggestion
• Evening coffee is out (unless I’m up for an all-night ceiling staring party)
• My patented terrible desk posture has real, non-thrilling effects later in the day
• Reading glasses are no longer optional
• Forgetting my sunglasses makes me feel like…

I post a lot (too much 🙄) about my email newsletter, but that’s only because I’m having a great time writing it, and love that people seem to be into it.

If you haven’t already subscribed, and are looking for a steady source of content to fill the void that is December 2020, I invite you to sign up! It’s free to get one issue/week, or (through the end of the year) just $18 for a full year of three issues/week. 🤯

You never shut up about it, but what does the newsletter cover?

I generally share a featured post…

In a few months I’ll have been writing my newsletter for a year (!), so I thought I’d share a look at how the Junk Drawer sausage is made, with hopes that it might inspire more people to start their own publications (I’ll read ’em) or at the very least continue widening/deepening their information diets. Let’s take a look…

💻 Hardware:

I documented some of this in a past post, but for cooking up newsletter issues, I use an iPhone 11 Pro, an iPad (some model from a few years ago) and an HP Chromebook (again, some model from a…

Some stuff I’ve experienced lately (and not necessarily only new releases):

The Good Lord Bird (TV): Loved the style, loved the subject matter

The Last Picture Show (Movie): Young Randy Quaid blew both of our minds

The Comedy Store (TV): The origin story for so many comics

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Movie): History rhymes

A Teacher (TV): Uncomfortable but compelling

White Noise (Movie): Such dangerous fools 😠

The Mandalorian (TV): This season is unbelievably good

537 Votes (Movie): At the time I was young and clued out about the wild Miami backstory

The Reagans (TV): A really interesting…

A few months back I wrote about my 2020 “screened-in world” for my newsletter subscribers, and since at some point we’ll transition to a brave new post-COVID reality, I thought for the sake of grim posterity that I’d expand that piece into a full snapshot of my average 2020 weekday. 🚀 Buckle up…

6:00am-ish to 7:00am-ish:

I wake up, gather a ridiculous pile of devices and headphones and attempt to sneak out of the bedroom without waking up Sarah. …