Still Nasty

I was so ready to write you a letter of celebration today. To exhale a great big collective sigh of relief. To leave the trauma of this election season behind us as we look toward a brighter future. On Monday, I jotted down some notes in a draft of this letter: “We’ve been through hell, but now we rise.”

your computer warned you

your computer warned you

but you didn’t listen

and so the computer crashed

with 28 tabs open

and an endless

Granny Panties and Passion

With the start of Pop Warrior, I’ve been thinking a lot about the ways in which people express themselves and fight for what they believe in. Sometimes the expression and the fight are two separate things; someone might paint pictures of fruit just for fun in their free time when…

Two Men Kissed

The world is a rough place to be right now.

Two men kissed. Another man got angry, so he shot up a gay nightclub on Latin night. We need to do something. How can we not do something?

Pop of Holiday Cheer

Welcome to a special holiday edition of Pop Warrior! One of my favorite ideas about these winter holidays is that they all center around light. Whether you’re lighting up a Christmas tree or a menorah or a kinara or simply a fireplace, you’re bringing light and warmth into the darkest…

Welcome to Pop Warrior

First of all, thank you so much for having enough faith in my writing and internet curation skills to sign up before I even had a first issue to show you. You’re my day one-ers, and I’ll forever be grateful for you.

Stars Hollow in Trump’s America

Stars Hollow doesn’t change much. Patty’s is always filled with ballerinas. Taylor is always griping about traffic lights, or something similarly banal. Sure, that old hardware store on the corner became a diner at some point, but it still looks pretty much the same as it…