And I’m proud to tell you about these fine people I’m aligning with — The online world — mainly social media — has created a separate reality. It’s no secret or conspiracy theory anymore that through algorithms and intelligence agencies’ intervention, this alternate universe has sucked in many innocent people, coercing them into picking sides in a culture war between extreme conservatives and liberals…

Tips On Being Brave and Smart — I find it comically tone-deaf when successful writers suggest new writers create workshops as an income option. A workshop? Some of these beginners haven’t even gotten their first five blog posts under their belt, and you’re trying to sell them on becoming teachers? Let’s look at things realistically. I’m not…

Or is this widely reported baseball story a hoax? — There very well may be another you in the world. Perhaps your Mama wasn’t being so honest all those years when saying you were special, one-of-a-kind. Two gentlemen are living through this humbling experience after they found out they have a real-life doppelgänger. Meet Brady Feigl and… Brady Feigl. They are two men who…

The grind and doom metal beasts collaborate on a new, devastating EP. — A soul-stirring collaboration unfolds when one of the darkest grindcore bands and one of the most claustrophobic doom-metal bands assemble in the same studio. Relapse Records recording artists Full Of Hell and Primitive Man are challenging the threshold of existential dread on a five-track EP titled Suffocating Hallucination. Closed Casket…

How Do We Make an Impossible Choice? — The other day I challenged myself with the following crucial question after exiting a car dealership: If aliens were to visit and demand to hear only one song that best represents the music of Earth, which song should be chosen? The relevant plot point of the car dealership is simply…

A Letter From the World Economic Forum to the World — To our innocent and unenlightened citizens of the world, We are facing an unprecedented global catastrophe — again — but have no fear; daddy’s here. We, the World Economic Forum, messiahs of a new generation, are making sure that mean ol’ Climate Change man isn’t gettin’ ya. Firstly, we continue…

Just the latest example of how safety is used as a smokescreen for money-grabs — Let me begin by giving you a personal anecdote on how New York City’s government uses safety as a guise for greed. This goes the same for most of the world outside of NYC as well, but let’s keep it local for now. I recently received a speeding ticket in…

A Post-September-11th Lyric — The following are lyrics from a song titled “The Scarred, Strangled, Slander”. This provocative track is by my old metalcore band, Through The Discipline, and is off our full-length album from 2004, Art of Survival (Jailhouse Records). These words were written during the immediate aftermath of the attacks in New…

A Chill Poem — Some seek hibernation in January Others find a hero’s journey Some blame SAD for their passiveness Others slay demons in cold darkness Some complain the Holidays aren’t the same Others rally whoever’s left in the game Some stay warm and snug working from home Others scrape frost from their windshields and…