The Spooky World of Chris Ringler
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Over the weekend my wife and I went on a very rare evening out. Having a kiddo, it's not much of an option, but that's sorta part of the deal, right? So, we went to see comedian Patton Oswalt do a show in Flint. I ADORE the theater he was at, and any chance I… Continue reading Just Shut Up
In the charged socio-political climate everything is being weaponized by a very vocal minority. THE CHILDREN! THE CHILDREN! THE CHILDREN! They yell as if that both explains what they do and why. And if you dare to question them then you are said to be trying to corrupt these imaginary kids. We are living in… Continue reading For the Children
There is a particular sort of awfulness to how we let bureaucracy kill one another. We watch as our brothers and sisters are hung up by red tape and left to hang for all to see. We watch as they drown beneath manufactured debt - property taxes on homes and land they own. We evict… Continue reading By the Book
I learned a creepy term over the holidays - gun influencers. Worse, there are KID gun influencers. These are folks that like to shoot and show off weapons on the socials. While I have real issue with people doing that - it’s akin to watching people race or drive fast cars that I’ll never own… Continue reading Cultured
As a kid, I remember waiting with bated breath for fall. I was no fan of school, that’s to be sure, but I was desperate for the start of the fall cartoons and for the fall television slate. You see, in the ‘80s the fall season was when the new cartoons would debut as well… Continue reading Anticipation
When I first started doing ‘zines with friends we were all about the DIY ethos. We were just kids, teenagers, and we didn’t have any money to put into anything, to be honest, so we cut pictures out of old magazines, printed things off of computer printers, and made copies at copy centers or on… Continue reading Broken Systems
Sometimes I wonder if we’re trying to heave ladders toward heaven with how anxious we are to pore over the art of the past to find its flaws. We are desperate to show how wise and cultured and enlightened we are and just as anxious to post about it so everyone can know about it… Continue reading Ladders to Heaven
If we’re honest, the American education system is a dumpster set ablaze. It has become politicized and weaponized and children are suffering for it. It has fully become a situation of haves and have-nots. The haves can go wherever they want to school with the option of private school, charter school, or even homeschooling on… Continue reading Tear Down
We’re at that stage of things where we have to sorta stop and say, oh, yeah, that’s on us. Our bad. There is something sick in our culture and it’s undeniable. We have become a culture standing around our house as it burns, roasting marshmallows. Florida thinks it’s a great idea to ‘show the other… Continue reading The Fire That We Started
There is a strange feeling of being at a great height and near the edge as I think about the world today’s children are inheriting. A feeling that we have climbed too high to easily climb down. It feels as if the only way to reach solid earth again is to fall, something that benefits… Continue reading An Inheritance of Dirt
There is an unshakable feeling of horror to where American capitalism is heading. A sense we have conjured something we cannot control. A sense that on our collective tombstone, it shall read only Hubris. We have been voyeuristically watching one another live our lives and yearning for wealth thinking there is no baggage involved. I… Continue reading Random Acts of Cruelty
Fandom is a strange thing. It is a love for a thing or a person that can border on obsessive so that the fan wants to smother the thing or creator with their devotion. The fandom, the love, becomes more important than why it was created, what it might mean, and who made it. It’s… Continue reading Toxicity
It’s hard not to feel in the past few years that society has become a powder keg. We are seeing racism slink out of the shadows, bigotry be embraced by political candidates, and hate is being used as a battering ram against those that call for equality. More people are turning to violence as a… Continue reading Powder Keg
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