Caricature of the Retired Menace with a monkey and blue llama in a Costa Rican jungle
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Retired veteran menace. Still taking notes.

Dispatches for people who can smell bullshit through a closed browser tab.

Satire, travel scars, shipwreck detours, civic side-eye, and the occasional useful conclusion dragged out of the smoke.

Today: public nonsense Method: blunt, funny, readable Rule: punch up, sideways, never down

Small fires, named accurately.

Dispatch

Some Tea Sire.

The Endless Vale Incident and the Teabagging Shift (2023–2025) The Endless Vale Incident is widely regarded by community historians and Bungie

Dispatch

Tequila Tamarindo Style

Work your whole life. Punch the clock, pay the bills, wait for “someday.” Someday finally shows up. You travel. You meet great

The feed fell down again. Naturally, there are witnesses.

Signal Check

Sometimes the End is the Beginning

You follow the script. Work your whole life. Raise a kid. Pay the bank more than the house is worth. Keep your head down, keep moving

Sometimes the End is the Beginning

You follow the script. Work your whole life. Raise a kid. Pay the bank more than the house is worth. Keep your head down, keep moving forward—because that’s what you were built to do.

Open the scar tissue
Hamilton & Scourge: The Expedition That Should Have Happened

Hamilton & Scourge: The Expedition That Should Have Happened

Over twenty years ago, I was involved in a serious conservation effort to film, document, and survey the wrecks of Hamilton and Scourge, resting in roughly 290 feet of freshwater near Hamilton, Ontario.

Read the field note

The shop can wait. The voice comes first.

Black Badge Tee

Quiet logo. Loud internal monologue.

Cream Badge Tee

For looking harmless while noticing everything.

Jungle Badge Tee

The field version. Sweat, shade, and bad decisions nearby.