Today is my birthday, and I want to offer a discount to readers, especially those of you who are new here.
I really can’t say enough how much I appreciate everyone who reads Contra. This Substack has been as much a newsletter as a chronicle of my life through some pretty wild transitions and tribulations.
It’s interesting to go through the archives and see how much has changed—how much I’ve changed. That makes me even more grateful to the people who have stuck with Contra through the years. I very much got a good sense of who read me for me and what I have to say, and who just wanted their views mirrored in someone else.
I have some stories coming for you, and a review of Scion, a fun novel I just finished. But for now, I’m going to go chase my kids around the backyard.
Thanks for reading.




Happy birthday man. Love the kids present my 3 yr old made me a card in july