INSOMNIA
Twenty-Four Straight Hours of College Basketball Destroyed My Mind
An endless parade of crimson-lipped cheerleaders and reptilian coaches began to bleed together, and all the games merged into a single, massive, all-consuming monstrosity of competition whose sole purpose was to wear me down. Here, in the cruel light...
The Cockroach and the Cokehead
May 2012: I quit my job and burn all my bridges so I can swim. I won't realize that was wishful thinking until a few months later. Summer starts gliding by like a sailboat. I master the Dead Man's Float. I'm not working and life is a lazy river; I'm a...
We're All Doomed: We're Going To Keep Ourselves Awake To Death
I'm a digital native and I don't sleep much anymore and those two things are absolutely related. I live on the internet, I've grown up on it. I was using a dial-up connection via my monthly Earthlink subscription to steal mp3s off Kazaa, only to...
Workin’ On My Night Cheese
There's an old wives' tale that claims that eating cheese before bed makes you dream weird and incredible things. For serious?