Mar 18Perfect Preroll PicksI love a joint! Even with the advent of vaping, edibles, and drinkable weed (which is incredible), the joint is still my favorite way to get high. Walking in the evening after dinner, a joint in hand, it all feels so hip, like I’m a some kind of beat poet…Weed2 min read
Mar 17Stoner Food ElevatedTake a moment and think of stoner food. Ready? Go. I’m not a betting man but I’d be willing to put money on some of the images that came to mind; microwave burritos, off-brand chips, candy in neon packaging. These typical ‘munchies’ can be great but I, for one, get…Weed2 min read
Mar 16Weed strains for when you want more than just a good time.Marijuana makes movies funnier, food tastier, sex… well, you know. Any dispensary you walk into in a legalized state will have strains marketed as enhancers for these ‘good vibes’. Missing in the weed conversation, however, are some of the other places THC can take your mind. I’ve known writers who…Marijuana2 min read
Mar 10How To Write While DyslexicOr, being a good writer when you are, technically, not. — Dyslexia is, in medical terms, a real fucking curse. It’s a protean bastard, appearing to onlookers sometimes as laziness, sometimes stupidity. …Psychology6 min read
Mar 8Walking In PainI circle my block. My hip hurts. I won’t stop hurting. I stretch, I strengthen, it hurts. It’s my right hip, the leg I keep long and tense for the gas peddle, locked in pain right where the back of my leg meets the bottom of my spine. Driving has…Pain3 min read
Mar 8The Walkable NeighborhoodA walkable neighborhood is the highest achievement for the middle class angeleno. Silverlake, Los Feliz, Highland Park are quintessential examples of the gentrifying hunger for ‘walkability’. Like ethnic food a walkable neighborhood is something foreign to the millennial children of the suburbs who crave it as exotic. The suburban lifestyle…Walking2 min read
Mar 8Walking ScaredI see someone walking down the street towards me, so far away I can make out none of their features. I’m wary of them. My hands clench, I roll back my shoulders. We pass one another uneventfully. I turn a corner, someone turns the same corner. They’re behind me. I…Fear2 min read
Mar 8Music for WalkingIt’s strange, prescribing a soundtrack for a walk. The purpose is to find in the act of walking the total flattening of the curves of thought into an open plane of presence. One seeks to be entirely here. Music playing in headphones is the antithesis of being perfectly present to…Los Angeles5 min read
Mar 8The Angeleno Hiking“Ah, man. You’ve gotta go hiking! You’ve gotta hike! We go hiking all the time.” Friend at a party “That’s the thing about living in LA. I always forget we have all this just a few miles away. Mountains and desert and everything.” -Me, every time I go hiking. Looking…Hiking12 min read
Mar 8LA On Foot, On MushroomsThe mushrooms have begun to take effect, pleasant but still disappointing. I am perhaps past the point in my life where mushrooms do much for me. The interesting modes of thought brought out by the drug are no longer novel, in my walking my thoughts are psychedelic enough. The city…Walking8 min read