Shut Up, Shoe Shopping is Totally Metal
For me, shoe shopping is a little like a manhunt. Sometimes I go it alone, as a meditative experience, and sometimes I hunt in packs, where we combine our individual experience to become an unstoppable force. ♠ Continue reading…
How to Make Friends at a Metal Show
Everybody needs a bestie. Sometimes it’s hard to find new friends, whether you’ve just made a big life change like moving to a new place or have just graduated from college, or even if you just want to meet some new people to shake things up a little. ♠ Continue reading…
Me, Oreo, & Equinophobia
Today was Thunderhorse Day, and it was a beautiful day to overcome a baseless-but-longstanding fear. ♠ Continue reading…
The Quarter-Life Crisis & Facing Fear
I’m turning twenty-five on Thursday. The more I remember where I thought I’d be at this age, the more the number looms over my head – which is kind of hilarious when I consider that I’ve got a full-time job on my career path, a pretty sweet apartment, enough time and fun money to do what I want most of the time. I’m not dying of anything and I get to hang out with my kickass friends, a dashing boyfriend, and a cat that couldn’t give two shits about me but is awfully cute. ♠ Continue reading…
HATERS GONNA HATE: Groupies
Go ahead and roll your eyes; if you’re not in a band, then you probably don’t like groupies. They’re up there on the stage in their tiny skirts while you’re down with the groundlings in the mosh pit. They get backstage, supposedly purely on the merits of their appearances, and get to sip away at free booze until the headlining act decides that they want to break off a piece of that. You might grumble about it under your breath when some huge guy knocks into you and dumps your $8 cup of Budweiser down the front of your shirt. ♠ Continue reading…
The Very Best of YouTube Headbanging
It’s been a hell of a week for me, between my soul-crushing day job and busily planning for my birthday (I’m turning 25 on the 18th!!!), so I wanted to do a quick, JWZ-style video rundown of one of my most favorite ways of burning off frustration: headbanging. ♠ Continue reading…


