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Nobody would call a yearly referendum about whether or not your business should exist a stress-free process. Every year since 2014, I’ve prepped and coordinated and hoped for the best as I pressed the launch button on another Kickstarter. The current plan is to click it again on July 13, 2026, and launch the Uncanny […]
This is the second version of this editorial. I vented a lot in the first version about my frustration with the precariousness of publishing. I’d just received some bad magazine news, and the negativity flooded into my typing. This isn’t unusual for anybody right now. It’s difficult to be aware of anything currently going on in the world […]
Don’t let the fuckers kill your joy. If you’re here, you live in the internet world—often a constant stream of horrors, terrors, and misinformation. Hypocrisy is everywhere, and as you look for hope, there is always some sonofabitch who wants you to believe your joy is in bad taste. How can you possibly be joyful […]
Happy New Year, Space Unicorns! As we tumble into 2026, I’m writing my first editorial of the year at a coffeehouse where I used hang out when I was seventeen. Tomorrow is my fifty-first birthday. This place feels the same as in the 1990s, but I am so very far away from the Michael who […]
I’m writing this editorial while listening to a Sundays album I first purchased in Champaign/Urbana over thirty years ago, back when I first came here for college. It’s the right kind of autumnal mopey. This will be my last fall in Champaign/Urbana. My late daughter Caitlin’s final house will soon be on the market, and […]
I’m composing this editorial on the couch in my Champaign house as the Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter enters its final hour. (It is still open for Late Pledges if you missed it!) I’m playing Disney theme park music as Hugo the Cat stares at squirrels outside the window and listens […]
I’m writing this editorial after dropping off three garbage bags of doctor and hospital bills, insurance company explanations of benefits, and medical reports at the bank’s free shredding day. The weight of the changes is hitting me. These are not good memories of my late daughter, Caitlin, but they told a part of her story […]
As I write this, the calendar is only days away from the one-year anniversary of the death of my amazing daughter, Caitlin. Sorrow weighs down my heart. For the rest of the world, life continues without her, though terrifying things fill the news and our social media. Terrible changes surround us, but there is also […]
We are not writing this editorial from Lurie Children’s Hospital as we did so many times in the past. We are in our living room, listening to a David Bowie album and feeling the void where Caitlin should be. We miss her greatly every single day. In 2017, America changed for the worse, and we […]
We’ve been mulling this editorial in our heads repeatedly since the American elections in November. What the fuck should we say? Please understand, we’re still smothered in grief. Are we functional? Yes. But it takes all of our energy to push through each day, each week, since the light of our lives dimmed and went […]
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