Tag: Doom

I think social phobia is what it’s called now. At least that’s what the psychiatrist called it. It used to be called social anxiety disorder when I first got diagnosed. No matter what you call it, it makes video calls and meetings miserable. I get nervous about them as soon as I wake ...

Until you begin to catalog their similarities, it can be easy to underestimate just how much alike these masked Marvel despots are. Since their respective debuts in the early 1960s, they’ve long been among Marvel’s earliest and most prolific time travelers. Each has extensively travel...

Rip and Tear (the controller out of my hands) It’s been a while since I’ve picked up a game I genuinely enjoyed or looked forward to playing. I’ve been playing Fortnite as my main game for so long that it’s refreshing to try something new and different, something way out o...

CDMX, November 5, 2022. It is 8:40 pm. Except for a few security guards and the merchandising stands along the entrance gates — no customer in sight — , there is not a soul at the Palacio de los Desportes the moment we get out of the cab. Seen from the outside, I do not really meas...

I moved to San Francisco in 1996. I quickly became part of a group of people led by my friend Desmond Crisis called the Otaku Patrol Group. We were all radio enthusiasts and technology fetishists who also wore a lot of leather. Desmond had kind of spliced a lot of old police equipment into the ...

Our chickens are coming home to roost. It doesn’t mean you have to be caught up in the chaos that comes with it. When poor individual choices collectively create a social or economic dilemma, politics becomes the realm where we appeal for a solution; it’s attractive to human nature. ...

Environmental news is full of doom and gloom, with headlines that look something like: “Climate change will destroy life on earth”, “Another 10 species on the edge of extinction”, or “Massive oil spill poisons the Gulf”. Just reading stuff like this plummets my ho...

I’m one of those people who can see truth, good and bad in both sides of a coin. I am told that that should create cognitive dissonance. There are two third rail issues arcing and sparking at the moment. Abortion and the 2nd Amendment. Much to the disappointment of friends and family, I am ...