The Newsletter is a place for me to share my reflections and real thoughts on the internet. For full access and to join me on this beautiful journey of self discovery, please subscribe below.The truth is - and prepare for many hard truths in this post - I’ve been in a dark place. I haven’t felt motivated to write, to socialise, sometimes to even get out of bed, and most certainly to share this experience online.

“We should be on a Margaret-Sally basis now,” said The Hon. Margaret Rhodes, Queen Elizabeth II’s first cousin and intimate friend since childhood. We had settled down for lunch at a pub near The Garden House, her home in Windsor Great Park. Margaret (which I’ll call her, since she gave me permission) was eighty-three years old at the time, and this was our second get-together in the winter of 2008. Over the next eight years, we would have a dozen conversations, including five over drinks or lunch—invariably simple fare such as lamb chops that she prepared herself.

SET 1: 70's sitcom theme (about 30 minutes), fun, poppy song (lots of oooooohs!), meat intro > makisupa-esque jam > meat ending > makisupa-esque jam, 15 minute funk jam, 3 random poppy songs, 80's-sounding pop tune (played 8 times), farmhouse (trey electric solo), farmhouse (trey acoustic solo), 40 minutes of trey fucking around alone (not decipherable), come on baby let's go downtown, i can see clearly now, 10 minute jam, police cover (7 times), the silicon fairy, voodoo chile, trey drum solo

Nicholas Braun has been out and about since the rumblings of his sexual assault allegations surfaced online. Not a single mainstream outlet picked up the story despite several credible victim statements, but nearly all of them covered his appearance on the picket line alongside WGA writers, encouraging Succession’s loyal fanbase to support the writers, and “none of that exists without these people.” Revolutionary. Thanks, Nick. In addition, he’s appeared on multiple podcasts including Q with Tom Power which aired on April 18 and more recently, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard which aired May 8.

Share Hunter S. Thompson was an American… and that's something that doesn't really exist anymore in this country outside of Taylor Swift and Kanye West. Thompson was a rare breed of journalists obsessed with uncovering great truths in the profound emptiness of our world. His work reminds me of a line from Andrei Tarkovsky's 1980 film Stalker: “May they laugh at their passions. For what they call passion is not really the energy of the soul, but merely friction between the soul and the outside world.