Critical Overthinking

Author: randallcleveland

  • Wow wtf is in those mushrooms?

    Mushrooms are having a moment. They’ve graduated beyond just “food” or those blacklight posters stashed in the back of Spencer’s Gifts and moved into pop culture, terrifying science news, and tech-bro health-influencer bullshit. (Fly agaric is poison; don’t blame me if you order from some sketchy website and go blind or whatever.) So it wasn’t…

  • Monday Moods 12.6.21

    I watched part 1 of the new Beatles documentary, Get Back, on Disney+ last night and felt very inspired to create and be artistic and free-flowing again but I can’t think of much else to say about it besides god damn the Beatles were so very good. Just watching them seamlessly transition between one another’s…

  • Reconsidering life as an introvert.

    It turns out that my lifelong dream of just staying home, watching TV, and playing video games all day came with kind of a “monkey’s paw” vibe to it. Life moves in slow motion now, and a mental schism is occurring in Kat and I. Here, at our home, things are fine. More boring than…

  • WE SHALL REMEMBER THIS DAY

    Scribes! Take chisels to your tablets, and record for posterity this momentous occasion! Let it be known on this day, and on all days forever more, that Randall Cleveland did receive his company’s first ever “Tip of the Hat” award! Such a blessing is received only by those who “do their job, you know, well,…

  • The Road to Recovery, Part 1

    In August I decided to get serious about my health. Well, semi-serious. Slightly more serious than usual, anyway. Basically I wanted to spend more time exercising and less time having a sodium-fueled panic attack after eating enough Kung Pao Chicken to feed a family of four. So I enrolled at a gym up the street…