Dan Sinker/now

I always have a lot going on, here's what I'm doing now:

I'm writing I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS! for Haymarket Books …

while hosting and producing the weekly podcast Says Who …

and helping run the Civic Media Fellowships at USC …

and shipping the patches and stickers I made for you …

and also making stickers for the Says Who Sticker Club …

and OK that's enough.

My most recent blog posts

Strength and Hope Amid the Year’s Cold Start

This year has started hard. There's a line from the Mountain Goats song 'Cold at Night' that I keep coming back to.

Posted on Jan 12, 2026

2025: The Exit Interview

There's only one word I can use to describe 2025: unrelenting. My contract on the year finally runs out today and so I requested an exit interview with HR.

Posted on Dec 31, 2025

I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you

I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby.

Posted on Dec 24, 2025

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My most recent notes

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Spent basically the entire weekend signing, numbering and packing a remarkable number of zines. Ended up with EIGHT mail tubs full. Kinda blown away and definitely very tired. Stacks of zines are arranged on a table with a red surface.

posted at 3:42PM on January 18, 2026

A Saturday morning spent printing whistles and signing/numbering zines is a pretty good Saturday morning. A 3D printer sits on a table with stacks of zines titled "They Can't Take Us All" next to it.

posted at 8:01AM on January 17, 2026

Good mail day. Several copies of a book titled Dispatches from 2025 by Dan Sinker are packed inside a cardboard box.

posted at 4:58PM on January 16, 2026

I live in Chicago and it's January and yet every time it snows I am like HOW DARE YOU

posted at 8:07AM on January 16, 2026

Coming soon. A box contains multiple olive green knit hats with an orange patch labeled TRYING.

posted at 6:13PM on January 15, 2026

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Updated January 18, 2026. This page is inspired by @nownownow.