Weird

One of my best friends from growing up is an emergency room doctor in California. I don’t get to see him very often, but when I do, he tells me wild stories about some of the patients that he sees and some of the things they say and believe. Leave the medical stuff up to...

I feel like when a lot of people are having health concerns, they go one of two ways: they either self-diagnose from Web M.D. and they think they’re dying, or they totally ignore it and only go see a doctor at the last minute when a lot of damage is already done. That’s why you...

I’m not really one for big music festivals at this point in my life, but when I was a teenager I loved going to the Warped Tour every summer. All the biggest punk bands playing on a few stages in the miserable heat for ten hours? Count me in! And the people watching was just...

There are stories pretty regularly that float around the internet, usually about people who live in apartments, often those apartments exist in NYC, where something totally freaking scary pops up out of nowhere. Sometimes it’s ghosts, sometimes it’s scarier than that because it’s actually real, but I have no idea what could be freakier than...

There have been a few fads that have risen in popularity since the world went into quarantine. One of those things is the Randonautica app. Users pull it up before they go on a walk, randomly generate a coordinate, and then tell is what your “intention” is before setting out. Somehow – for these 16...

There’s a good chance you could name a dozen or more units of measurement, if pressed. We use them all the time, every day, metric and otherwise, to communicate heights and lengths and sizes and time to the people we interact with here and there. There are always things we don’t know, though – and...

The thing about internet rabbit holes is that you never realize how deep you’ve fallen until you’ve been there awhile, it’s pretty dark, and you know for a fact that it’s too late to easily climb out. Which is to say, much like Alice, we sometimes have regrets after we’ve followed our curiosity into the...

I would venture to say that most people who spend time in hospitals as patients would say those buildings are not their favorite places. No one likes having to go to the hospital, or stay for awhile, even before all of this past year and covid happened. You’re alone a lot of the time, you’re...