5 European Metal Bands You Need in Your Playlist - Even if You Don’t Listen to Metal
Whether you’re new to metal or just looking for new additions to your workout mix, these bands need to make it onto your playlist.
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Surprise! Gaming Marketing Emails are Still Sexist!
Every time we think we make some little bit of progress, someone does something that makes it clear there is still a ton of work to do. Some things are mistakes (that some dude bro must have thought was hysterical when they penned it) and when they’re rectified, it’s at least a small step forward. …
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Why People are So Quick to Disbelieve Amber Heard
When I started to hear bits about what Depp’s witnesses said on the stand, I started rethinking my admittedly automatic support for Heard. I had been firmly against Depp for years. I think it’s important to believe survivors in a world that habitually ignores them, especially those that are victims of powerful men who tend …
BTS (Bangtan Boys)
Shifting gears completely from what’s been dominating my mind the past few months, can we just talk about how amazing BTS is? Yes, the K-pop group. I’ve only really been into them since the fall when they released Dynamite, a fun disco-inspired song meant to bring joy to listeners. It’s incredibly catchy and infectious. I’m …
Expectations vs. Reality
This is quite possibly the most personally spot on cartoon I’ve ever seen. The idea of getting rid of all the preconceived notions about what I should be doing and things I should have accomplished and things I should want from life fits in well with where I am on my own journey and I …
New Year, New Start
Happy 2021! At the risk of cursing it, I am excited and cautiously optimistic about the new year. A few reasons why: We’re going to see the end of four years of tyranny and hate by a fascist wannabe dictator. There is a vaccine for the global pandemic that has been raging. We’ve got a …
Milestones
Today marks my 40th year around the sun. I didn’t expect this to do a number on me, but it has. It really, really has. I feel like I’ve crossed into a new era of myself, but not for the better. Just for the older and unaccomplished. I think back to high school and I …
What’s Your #1?
Not the easiest question, if you ask me. It’s one of those things that I’ve been thinking about more and more as the stressors add up and we’re still safer indoors after nine months. All that time has forced some serious reflection to happen. I typically have a whole slew of answers that I know …
The Power of Positive Thinking
This is the power of positive thinking in meme form. Confession time. I love The Secret. Not because it’s some huge revelation or some game changing new information, and certainly not the somewhat predatory marketing tactics, but because it got the idea of positive thinking mainstream. For a few years, I would feel myself sliding …
Be Brave
Courage is underrated. Everyone talks about it and throws the word around rather easily in some cases, rather sparingly in others. We think about courage in terms of superheroes and military and law enforcement officers and firemen. Doctors and nurses who are in the thick of the pandemic caring for some who still believe it’s …