I'm quitting 2023. After 364 days, today will be my last day. My tenure here has not been a good one and I requested an exit interview with HR so that 2023 can understand why I'm leaving and perhaps, how it might do better in the future.
Read "2023, The Exit Interview" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/2023exit/
2023 was a lot of hard things, but losing Sinead O'Connor and Pee-Wee Herman within a few days of each other felt especially cruel. At the tail end of a difficult year I wrote a small offering to the mystic and man-child that meant so much to those of us that grew up different.
Read "Feel So Different, Remembering Sinead O'Connor and Pee-Wee Herman" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/peeweesinead/
I thought Shane MacGowan was unkillable. If he hadn't died by now, the logic went, with all the drinking and drugs and living harder than most, maybe he never would. HBut, of course, he did.
Read "A Man You Don't Meet Every Day, Remembering Shane MacGowan" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/shane/
When I was younger I tried to build artist/musician/weirdo Laurie Anderson's tape-bow violin from a single sentence description. While I never got it to work quite right, it taught me everything I know about asking "why."
Read "Let X Equal X" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/tapeloop/
I wrote some thoughts on the lonely year that has transpired since Elon Musk took over Twitter.
Read "Year of the Living Dead" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/twitter365/
It's been a minute since I last updated my blog. But that hasn't been because I haven't been doing stuff. In fact, quite the opposite.
Read "Best Laid Plans" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/july/
Every job I've ever stuck with, I've done so because it's felt like a never-ending series of puzzles to solve.
Read "Puzzles All the Way Down" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/puzzles/
Today I'm excited to announce the start of a wholly new, super ambitious project in collaboration with the novelist Joe Meno. Welcome to Question Mark, Ohio.
Read "Believe in Mystery" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/violetbookman/
I've had better months than March 2023, but now that it's basically over I thought I'd take take stock of some of the good work I got done amid the awfulness.
Read "It's All Over But the Crying" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/march/
Earlier this year I wrote about how 2023, for me, is about trying. And then I made a patch to remind myself of that. And people wanted one, so now I've made them and you can get one.
Read "Trying — a patch for you" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/trying-patch/
I wrote about chatbots and magic and a turn-of-the-century spirit medium who spewed images of people from beyond the grave from her mouth. No, really.
Read "Use Your Illusion" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/illusions/
I've been a lot of things, but I was a skater first. And skateboarding has taught me a lot about patience, about falling, and about getting back up.
Read "Skating and Waiting" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/skating/
I wrote about getting wrapped up in British football, about the poison in the brain of every 90s punk kid, and about embracing change.
Read "A Boot to the Head" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/football/
I've been trying my whole life. These last few years I found that I'd stopped.
Read "On Trying" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/trying/
Lately I've been thinking about sad songs and the stories from our lives that resonate between the notes. It made me revisit a work-in-progress about the end of Punk Planet and the saddest song I know.
Read "The Saddest Song I Know" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/transmission/
With the start of a new year, I thought I'd share my journaling method and how using it to reflect on days, months, and years has helped me to (kinda sorta) get my shit together.
Read "I See Reflections of You and Me" on my blog: https://dansinker.com//posts/reflections/