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For the folks who saw me talk at Pecha Kucha Pittsburgh, here are some links I assembled put together to resources for people interested in rethinking the drug war. Yes my talk was called “The War on Sugar,” but it wasn’t really about sugar. It was about what happens when criminalize something lots of people [...]

I will be appearing at a couple of great community events in Pittsburgh in the next couple of weeks (assuming that our baby is not born early, in which case, I will be out of action for a bit.) 1. Pecha Kucha Pittsburgh, Volume 8 Pecha Kucha is an event which happens in cities all [...]

When people hear that we are expecting a child, they are always very happy for us, which is nice. Then they ask, “boy or girl?” To which we reply, we don’t know. Then, inevitably people go, “Oh, you want a surprise!” Um. No. I think the stress and intensity of the birthing experience will be [...]

Last night I was honored to meet Dan Piraro, creator of Bizarro. Bizarro is the best strip on the comics page. Dan was in Pittsburgh to do a standup comedy performance benefit for Pittsburgh’s museum of cartoon art, the Toonseum. Dan mixed projected visuals, freeform monologue, real-time drawing, and musical performance in a comedic tour [...]