The Holocene Moment: When You Realize You Are Not Magnificent

With the clarity of retrospect, I can see I was hauling too much weight. Or rather, I had my weight distributed all wrong.

Remember this if you ever haul a trailer behind a truck — you want the majority of the weight as far up towards the front of the trailer as you can. Put it right on the hitch.

July of 2012 was a hot one. I had just spent the weekend at Pitchfork Fest in Chicago doing the devil’s bidding.