Dumpster Fires
Barret BaumgartEvery writer dreams of a room of their own. Even better, a room with a view…
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Saddlerock Ranch Insanity
The creation of this ephemeral under-clicked content required 27 hours so I’m not going to talk about it. Enjoy!
Except, well… here’s a great detail that did not make it in the mini-doc:
After annihilating the federal parks budget, Presi...
PITY SEX at LA TIMES
After the popular Los Angeles Times reporter Gustavo Arellano jacked a ‘viral’ bit of reporting I did some months ago, got himself hideously trolled on social media, and then laughed in my face, boasting that he’d found the El Aliso brass e...
Inconceivable Consumption
In June 2005, I was ejected from my high school graduation ceremony at Patrick Henry High in San Diego, where I was wearing a white robe, having one of the top GPAs in my graduating class, for screaming the words “Fuck US Imperialism.” The...
Mountains of Madness
Short of the great flooded valleys—the damming of Hetch Hetchy in Yosemite, which nearly drove John Muir to suicide, or the flooding of Glen Canyon Dam that created Lake Powell, burying 190-miles of the most fantastic sculpted desert canyon...
The End of Hostilities
While the drunk t-ball coaches who never found the clit wear masks like fucking cowards as they hunt Mexicans in unmarked GMC Suburbans across American cities—occasionally shooting soccer moms in the face—I thought I’d make a fun informativ...
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