Tag: health

  • 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…

  • 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…