I view writing as a tool to reconcile my curiosity about the world with my experiences in it. The things that capture my interest and the excavation of these cultural fossils have taken me off the highways of mass culture and down some fairly obscure side roads.
These are travelogues from my journeys through the Less Obvious.
A Distant Salutation (2025)
How dopamine doomed the Confederacy on the last day of August 1862.
Cats and Rats (2025)
Evangelizing cybersecurity to word-weary stakeholders
Shellback ’72 (2025)
The Drink (2025)
An open-source common cold fighting recipe
Pricing Birdflu (2025)
The stock market: where ignorance is bliss
December 6, 1941 (2025)
Photos from the day before Pearl Harbor
Old Bad Road (2023-2025)
John Mosby, Pine Trees, and the Guerrilla War in Suburban Virginia
Frontier Goth (2021-2025)
10 Midway (2021)
You Too (2021)
dir. Grant James, starring Keith Jefferson + Craig Stark
Skid Row Reader (2016-2019)
Teaching Adults to Read at 6th and San Pedro
8.72 (2016-2017)
The best places to eat for cheap in the underbelly of Downtown Los Angeles