I’ve always enjoyed ironic living, even (especially) before it was fashionable. I found it a useful coping strategy that helped me navigate late capitalism, especially in the long stretches of my life when I was broke.

I recently went out for lunch and ran into this sign: Which I think is about the best thing in the history of time. It is a breakdown of the ingredients in each of the restaurant’s dishes, indicating which contain dairy, fish, nuts, and so on. Unfortunately I’d already eaten lunch, or I would have […]