Archive - Inside the ripple

Prayer to the sun god

In New York, I am crowded by past lives. On Saturday night I wander past by the shitty apartment I lived in when I was 21 then another I lived in when I…

Mar 21 •

February 2024

Hello and a poem

It’s almost my birthday. I’m going to be 34, a year by which it feels like I should have had things “figured out”. Of course that’s not how things work…

Feb 13 •

January 2024

The things keeping me going (pt 1)

It’s not a great time right now for anyone, but more importantly, for me. I’m having, as they say in Australia “a shit time” for reasons relating to the…

Jan 9 •

That funny feeling

Surviving in the internet's multiverse of dissociation

Jan 3 •

October 2023

God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life

Tonight, alone in my hotel room in Sydney, I listened to one of my favorite albums, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, and cried. It’s…

Oct 15, 2023 •

The whole world screams and falls apart

Over the last few days, I have posted a few things and spent many hours thinking about what I perceived to be people on the left celebrating the deaths…

Oct 13, 2023 •

June 2023

Hello to all that

You know I had to do it

Jun 15, 2023 •

January 2023

Butterflies in my brain

I've spent a lot of my life not being able to sleep. Right now, for instance, it's almost 2 am on a Tuesday night. I have work in the morning. I can not…

Jan 24, 2023 •

October 2022

Say yes to the regress

I feel pretty good. But I’m living in a fog. In the last few months, some of the endless, grinding, “subclinical” (psychiastrist’s words) depression…

Oct 20, 2022 •

May 2022

This week I watched George Carlin’s American Dream, a two part documentary by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio on HBO. It’s a gripping, inspiring four…

May 31, 2022 •

March 2022

I’ve been in a rut for a long time. It started before the pandemic, but the last two years have only worsened it. I have been extremely self critical…

Mar 23, 2022 •

July 2021

This is the third part in my series about living as an American in Australia during the pandemic. You can read parts one and two at Gizmodo, here and…

Jul 31, 2021 •

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