Death By Consumption 11/18/25 - 12/1/25 The best part about coming back from a long vacation (oh, did you know I went to Japan? Have I mentioned that yet?) is the absolute mountain of culture you have to catch up on. And yet, instead of planting

Death by Consumption 10/28/25 - 11/18/25 I have returned! Welcome to Japan Week on Death By Consumption. We actually returned last week, so I fear the trip is already fading into a lovely dream I once had, now that I'm back to real life,

Death By Consumption 10/21/25 - 10/27/25 I regret to inform you that this will be the last DBC for a couple weeks. Next week will be the first week I've ever missed (in 77 weeks, wow!), which I don't take lightly — I&

Death By Consumption 10/14/25 - 10/20/25 An evening email, how luxurious! I am sending you this after nightfall, under the cover of darkness, to get you into the Halloween spirit, NOT because I'm a procrastinator who keeps getting buried under a nonstop avalanche of

Death By Consumption 10/7/25 - 10/13/25 I spent all week in Vancouver on a commercial shoot that went through the weekend, and only returned to New York at 2 am last night, so I regret to inform you today is possibly the most half-assed Death By

Death By Consumption 9/30/25 - 10/6/25 I have to warn you, I'm in the midst of a very busy month at work, so newsletter-wise [Chinua Achebe voice:] things may fall apart. It remains absolutely unconscionable that my job expects me to do labor in

Death By Consumption 9/23/25 - 9/29/25 The scaffolding around my building finally came down. Over a year ago, we got the worst news a New Yorker can get, that the dreaded blight of construction scaffolding was going up for some repairs to the facade, and everyone

Death By Consumption 9/16/25 - 9/22/25 If you're reading this, congrats on being one of The Leftovers. In the surest sign yet that our entire society has a terminal case of peasant brain, people went full-blown hysteria mode this weekend and convinced themselves the

Death By Consumption 9/9/25 - 9/15/25 What a weird week, huh! How are you doing with your government-enforced period of mourning? I'm genuinely shocked they haven't outlawed wearing colors for 30 days, like some sort of medieval funerary superstitious ritual. 12 hours