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Satire
If you're into biting satire with just enough venom to keep the poison control hotline on speed dial, you're in the right place. Click here to browse my most recent attempts at making the absurdity of modern life feel slightly more tolerable—or at least mockable.
One of my more popular articles on satire is here:
Thig's Pen Fifteen Sketchbook
Notice! Departure from the previous month’s serious subject matter and Public Service Announcement. Now back to my regularly scheduled programming and a dose of absurdity. This article is complete satire. I can’t believe I have to make this disclaimer, but some of y’all will think this is real.
Lost in Austin
Heather and I moved to Austin over half a decade ago, which in Tech Bro Years is roughly three IPOs and a failed crypto scheme ago. We're not native Texans—we hail from a far more cultured and intellectually elite state known as Alabama—but we genuinely love it here.
That said, I also love roasting this city like it’s a brisket that owes me money. Sure, Austin has its charms: breakfast tacos, Barton Springs, and the occasional moment of actual humanity. But then there’s the plague of Elon fanboys, Joe Rogan stans, Greg Abbott’s legislative cosplay, and whatever flavor of Alex Jones fever dream is currently bubbling up from the sewers like political herpes.
Still—heat, chaos, and all—we're staying. And below, you’ll find some of my ongoing love-hate letters to this weird, sweaty, overpriced utopia.
One of my more popular articles about living in Austin is here:
Feeling Skinny? Come to Austin
A few months ago, I woke up to multiple text messages telling me that Austin had gotten #1 in the States (and #5 in the world) for nightlife. I wrote about it—you can check it out here.
#ArtLyfe
Oh hey, fun fact: I illustrate all my own articles. That’s right—no AI-generated clip-art vomit here. Every drawing is handcrafted, like an artisanal cocktail made by a bartender who secretly hates you. I sketch each week for each piece, partly to keep my pencils sharp and partly to convince myself I still have a functioning prefrontal cortex.
If you're an artist (or a masochist), and want a peek into my creative chaos—welcome. It’s all here. Have fun wandering through the doodle-riddled labyrinth that is my brain. Just… watch your step. There’s a mysterious moist spot on the floor no one’s brave enough to investigate. We’ve all agreed not to talk about it.
Oh, and one of my more popular art talks is right here:
(Also, I gave a TED Talk. Okay fine, it was a TEDx Talk, but that just makes it edgy. Edgy like Elon Musk pretending to be a human being. 🫠🙄).
The More you Know ⭐️ 💫
I have an unhealthy curiosity about the mundane and often-overlooked debris of daily life. You know—the stuff nobody thinks about because they’re too busy defending billionaires on Twitter from the break room of a strip mall Verizon store. But I digress.
I genuinely believe digging into the forgotten corners of the world encourages critical thinking—which, tragically, has been whittled down to a dull butter knife by greedy executives, garbage politicians, and yes, let’s go ahead and throw Elon Musk in the compost bin with them. Along with that $35K-a-year middle manager who thinks Elon is a misunderstood genius playing 4D chess with a brain as intricate as Kanye’s ego and as ripple-free as Trump’s “stable genius” cortex.
Anyway. I research weird stuff, write about it, watch my wife (also my editor) question every life decision that led her to this point, and then I draw some deeply cynical art to tie a bow on the beautiful disaster that is reality.
Articles about “The More you know” click here.
Here’s one of my more popular rabbit holes of “useless” knowledge:
Unnecessary Ruffness
Humans can’t help but anthropormorphize things. It’s practically in our DNA, see my illustration below that helps sell that narrative.