When Bethesda announced Fallout 76, an always-online, microtransaction-fueled, shared-world shooter, I was dejected. I don’t think I could have dreamt up a worse addition to the venerated Fallout franchise. The feeling stuck with me for days, festering in the pit of my gut like a meal gone wrong. It took until a few weeks ago to […]

  Let’s talk about emails.  Not those emails. Donald Trump’s emails. His campaign emails, to be precise. I’m not 100% sure how this happened, but about a year ago I started receiving emails from the Trump re-election campaign. If I had to guess, I’d say it happened when I filled out a survey regarding the […]

In the television show, Once Upon a Time, the Pied Piper is really Peter Pan who is really Rumplestiltskin’s father who is really the crocodile whose ticking belly might be only ticking in Captain Hook’s mind, who may not be the villain he is made out to be. The story goes that Captain Hook wasn’t […]

I knew my father was an addict at a young age. I still remember the day I found a stash of tiny amber vials with white powder dusted on the inside in the back of his nightstand drawer. I couldn’t tell you how old I was or if I really knew at the time what […]

Spoiler alert for all of Game of Thrones! I audibly sighed as I began writing this piece. This has been an article I’ve been thinking about since Season 7 of HBO’s mega-hit Game of Thrones. I had planned on writing this at the end of the penultimate season, when I believed the show had hit […]

Rarely older generations take Fall Out Boy as a serious band. This opinion, as it happens from generation to generation with popular music, is typical. No parent understands their child’s favorite band and vice versa. However, as someone who grew up more familiar with La Boheme and Rachmaninoff than anything playing on the radio, I […]

Anyone who knows me personally knows I’m an avid Playstation fan. Simply put, I think Microsoft has unequivocally lost this console generation. Microsoft bungled the reboots of some of their most beloved franchises like Halo and Gears of War. They launched a few new IP’s that were met with lukewarm reception at best. Console sales […]

Public schools are funded through federal, state, and local dollars. Free education is an expensive public service, but it’s significant in shaping the future of America. The value of education easily outweighs its expense. However, despite the benefits of having a well-structured education system, the United States chooses to spend eight times more on defense […]

Want Two: A Criminally Underrated Album That Sounds Like It’s Inspired By The Renaissance. Every song Rufus Wainwright crafts is lovingly weird and deeply literary. He doesn’t write albums that sound too similar, which in today’s era of music, is refreshing. He is an artist with a voracious love of Shakespeare. His performance  style is […]

To many people, I’ve become a subtle symbol of grief over the years. Clad in all black and never giving more than a pitifully vague answer about my personal life, I’m sure I’ve turned heads. The positive side to this is I can help people who go through emotionally rotten times. This manifests in many […]