Recently I’ve mostly been doing caregiver stuff for my kid, with a little bit of getting drunk at the club with friends now that his mom is back (replace drunk with ‘tipsy and stoned’, ‘club’ with ‘local music-themed bar’, and friends with ‘the other poor souls for whom this place is a nice distraction from the shithole that is our lives’. Though I am shooting for friendship because some of those folks are actually really fucking cool, we all just happen to be a wee bit damaged).

Sometimes being a hype man for these folks so they’re aware of how fucking cool they actually are (musicians, comedians, artists, general fascinating weirdos, the occasional poet) is the only thing getting me through the following week.