Sitemap - 2023 - Better Strangers

Santa Claus, Godkiller and Mushroom Shaman

Best Books of 2023 (for people who had a rough year)

Britt Hartley on helping people step back from the void

A user's guide to overcoming nihilism

How do you survive the death of a dream?

Revolutionary Fiction: "Chokepoints"

How to fight political despair

Round-up: The Peace-to-War Pipeline in Two Poems

Meet an Activist: Revolution from within the system

What would an anarchist revolution look like?

Revolutionary Round-Up

Can the earth be saved with nonviolence?

Revolutionary Horror: John Carpenter's "They Live"

Welcome to Better Strangers!

Book Rex: Scary Stories to Read in the Dark

The Jimble-Jamble: Climate progress and imagining a better future

You don't suck, your society is just failing you

Book Rex: On psychedelics and depression

Jimble-Jamble: Philosophies for Chaotic Times

Why the Spanish Civil War matters

Book Rex: The Queen of Horror

The Jimble-Jamble: Let your hate flow through you

The Season of the Witch is here

Music Rex: Bruce Springsteen on those who never made it big

The Jimble-Jamble: What Game of Thrones understood about power

Tattoos as a form of self-love

TV Rex: Into the Cartooniverse

The Jimble-Jamble: Get Off the Internet!

Have you considered going on a internet cleanse?

Book Rex: Contact

Jimble-Jamble: Curiouser and Curiouser

Don't hate humanity, hate the rich.

Book Rex: Philosophies for Chaotic Times

The Jimble-Jamble: Casablanca & Trippy Science

You are what you hate

Book Rex: Helgoland

Jimble-Jamble: Destroyers of Worlds

Truth won't set you free

Book Rex: The KLF by John Higgs

Nature Nostalgia

Seize the memes of production!

Book Rex: Traffic

Podcastomania!

Using curiosity to combat fear

Book Rex: An Immense World

Jimble-Jamble: French revolutionary kitsch

Book Rex: Where to start with psychogeography

Jimble-Jamble: Using libraries to fight climate change

The radical genius of Chumbawamba

Book Rex: How to Be a Stoic

The Jimble-Jamble: Everything's made-up (and still sucks)

Your body in the fight against Fascism

Book Rex: The Body Keeps the Score

The Jimble-Jamble: The Ethics of Culinary Travel

Notes from a Library's Drag Queen Story Hour

Book Rex: Drug Strugs

Jimble-Jamble: Depression-mania!

Hey, it's okay to feel angry and sad about the state of things

Book Rex: How to start taking action

The Jimble-Jamble: Different Perspectives on Time

Better Strangers is in The Daily Beast!

Book Rex: Octavia Butler's world

The Jimble-Jamble: The Chaos of History

In defense of moral relativism

Book Rex: Small is Beautiful

Jimble-Jamble: Oil ain't gonna save the whales

How a different understanding of time can help you cope

Apocalyptic New Jersey Sites (or the Statue of Liberty's Evil Twin)

Jimble-Jamble: Embracing the Gloom

Is the world going to hell, or are you depressed?

Hope vs. Optimism

On thriving in chaos

How to build your story in a strange place

Watch me live tomorrow!

The Jimble-Jamble: Anarchy 101

Why it's a good time to visit your local library

Book Rex: A Psalm for the Wild-Built

"The Revolution of Everyday Life"

A world of conspiracies

Song Rex: Queen's "Hammer to Fall"

Jimble-Jamble: Psychogeography resources!

Explaining bad climate politics with the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Join me on Notes

What's it like to live through collapse?

Misanthropy is a choice

Book Rex: A Paradise Built in Hell

Good vibes only

PSA: If you engage with something you hate online, you are promoting it

Book Rex: Our Share of Night

On trying to be a straight, cis dude that doesn't suck

Death vs. Sex in America

Is there such thing as anti-capitalist travel?

Jimble-Jamble: Imagining Solarpunk

Against dystopias

Book Rex: Say Nothing

Your dog knows when you masturbate (and other inspiring facts)

Why you'll get more informed from books than the news

Movie Rex: RRR

Notes from the front lines of the mental health crisis

Happy Russian Revolution Day!

Book Rex: Debt: The First 5000 Years

On the 23 Enigma (and how human belief works)

Book Rex: Short Story collections (for the distracted reader)

Against Forgiveness

On the morality of having kids in bleak times

Book Rex: 5 books that will kill your inner patriot

Reading hard books as an extreme winter sport

Where to start with Vonnegut

Book Rex: Transcendent Comics

The internet is the reason you're depressed

On my sudden mid-30s obsession with birds

Book Rex: Nature books that aren't stone-cold bummers

Should parents post pictures of their kids online?

Your helplessness is a delusion

Book Rex: Everything's a cult!

The Jimble-Jamble: 21st Century Parenting

Bad political habits to stop in 2023

Book Rex: How to defeat the Internet

The Jimble Jamble: Dance party chaos!

A non-believer's guide to loving cryptids and ghosts

I love libraries

The Jimble-Jamble: The Best of Espionage!

How to love an unlovable place

An atheist argument for the existence of gods

The Jimble-Jamble: Visionary wastelands

In defense of being a precious little snowflake

Better Strangers #1: Be More Biased!