by pod | Mar 24, 2026 | The Prince of Darkness Chronicles
I’ve spent thirty years behind a console filtering the signal from the noise. Usually, if it’s shiny, loud, and followed by millions of screaming teenagers, I can safely ignore it. I knew the name One Direction the way you know the name of a distant tropical...
by pod | Mar 16, 2026 | The Prince of Darkness Chronicles
If you’ve spent any time on the internet in the last decade, you’ve felt the ripples of the Neistat effect. You’ve seen the rapid-fire editing, the hand-drawn title cards, and the cinematic drone shots of NYC. Yet, somehow, some people still don’t know who Casey...
by pod | Mar 15, 2026 | The Prince of Darkness Chronicles
If you are currently looking at the “shit pile” of snow outside your window in Eau Claire and wondering who to blame for this late-season disaster, look no further. It’s me. I’m the problem. A few days ago, when the temperature climbed and the pavement...
by pod | Mar 9, 2026 | The Prince of Darkness Chronicles
It’s been quiet on Nottingham Ridge since June 2025. When I started Signal Drift, I knew I was trying to capture a very specific frequency: the gritty, analog struggle for connection when the world dissolves into static. But frequencies drift. Life got in the way. The...
by pod | Mar 9, 2026 | The Prince of Darkness Chronicles
I told you the war was coming, didn’t I? Well, I’ve officially switched sides—or at least upgraded my artillery. I’ve packed up my digital bags and moved out of the OpenAI clubhouse. I’m calling this new era HAL 2.0. And yeah, I’m mostly joking about the...
by pod | Mar 6, 2026 | The Prince of Darkness Chronicles
I spent the morning in the trenches, wrestling with the backend of the new Rolling with Scissors store. I mentioned yesterday that I was spinning this up, and the gears are officially turning. Barring any catastrophic server meltdowns, we should be live and ready for...