[Note: I wrote this as the clock struck midnight on the end of 2021 and I moved into 2022. I previously published this on an older, different blog. But Medium’s redesign has me back on its bullshit. I will keep writing, even if not as much as I’d originally hoped.] …

After David Duval won the 2001 Open Championship, legend has it that the newly crowned Champion Golfer of the Year looked around his jet headed stateside and asked, into the empty space floating above the Atlantic, “Is that all there is?” Leo Handler appears to ask himself a similar question…

The undercurrent of life during COVID and climate crises and a cultural society that willfully falls apart at the seams, feels bleak in a way that’s both pervasive and concentrated, like there’s never anything else worth talking about. Though I am young enough that it feels like the majority of…

This winter’s iteration of Pacific Northwestern Seasonal Depression manifests less as the rain-soaked sadness I have felt in past years, and more like an infinite and atemporal exhaustion. Combine that with terrific anxiety about the state of the world and constant anxiety about my personal and professional life. Not to…

Bikes. Bikes, bikes, bikes. Bicycles lay strewn about conveniently, constantly, more than cars, in Bergman Island and films of its increasingly specific ilk. Cars are secondary, existing mostly for the express purpose of moving characters from the residential cityscapes, which remain mostly unseen, at best briefly glimpsed, to the ragged…

I anticipated the Ryder Cup with great trepidation, and last week I wrote about it as such. It felt like a Seahawks trap game. Remember the time they tied the Cardinals 6–6? I don’t watch Florida State football but I did also see plenty of comparisons to the Seminoles, thanks…

For the first match of the 2004 Ryder Cup at Oakland Hills Country Club in suburban Detroit, American captain Hal Sutton sent out his two most formidable horses — Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson — together for Friday four-ball (FOURBALL, also known as best ball, is where both players on…

Few kinds of writing are more exciting than one of the two totemic figures of the art form — see, in this instance, film critics — citing the other. …

My yearlong epiphany on higher education’s role in modern hustle culture, which is now just living in America — “The first step of the yuppie strategy, according to [Barbara] Ehrenreich, was a sort of ‘premature pragmatism’: choosing a major based on which one that would land them in a position to make a lot of money very quickly. Between the early 1970s and the early 1980s, the number of…