What do you do when a melting orange man with a bad hairpiece is feeding you a steady diet of terror, and it's increasingly hard to regulate? Well, here at Dirge, we get in the car, turn the stereo all the way up, and scream as loud as we can (sometimes to the lyrics and sometimes just... screaming). Here's our Armageddon playlist of the top songs to scream with when the world is ending.
Our editor-in-chief, RA Pickup, joined her right-hand livestreaming partner, Doug Ziegler, to dive Into The Manosphere with documentarian Louis Theroux. Watch as they share their themed drinks (and have a few more than usual to deal with the manfluencers featured in the documentary), and talk about the issues the documentary raises: One-sided monogamy, violence, scams, and more. Warning: these dudes suck.
In Eddie McNamara's book, Zodiactually, he asks (and answers) a question that turns true crime and serial killer knowledge on its head: what if The Zodiac Killer was just an urban legend that got wildly out of control?
Friday the 13th tattoo specials are as American as Sailor Jerry, and Friday the 13th tattoos have carved out a similarly reverent place in tattoo history. Tattoo historians credit artist Oliver Peck with "creating" this tattoo holiday, citing his 1996 24-hour tattoo party, where he tattooed as many "13" tattoos as possible. (If we hadn't been children at the time, we so would have attended that party.) Even Peck acknowledges he was not the first to celebrate Friday the 13th as a tattoo holiday, and the aforementioned legend of American Traditional tattooing, Sailor Jerry, is credited with popularizing tattoos that turned "13" from a sailor's fear to a sailor's defiant good luck charm, a la the evil eye, with his "Lucky 13" series of flash.
Charles Bukowski, whom I hate, famously said, "Find what you love and let it kill you," proving that even guys you hate say really cool shit sometimes. In 2025, I decided to take Chuck's advice and set a goal of seeing 24 concerts in a single year.
Whether you think Valentine's Day is a corporate-created bullshit holiday meant to sell cheap chocolate or a day to make an extra effort to show your honey you love them, it's here, it isn't always queer, and we're going to have to get used to it.
Lucky for you, Dirge curated this Valentine's playlist...
A former teen Elvis impersonator from Tennessee, Lady C came to the California desert like a dream with a suitcase full of drag. Outside of disco-fied bathrooms, you can find her hosting her monthly cabaret at Mojave Gold in Yucca Valley, 2uesday Open Mic in Twentynine Palms, running fundraisers for the Joshua Tree No Kill Animal Shelter, showing art at multiple galleries, and popping up on indie movie sets to add a certain je ne sais quoi you can't get from anyone else.
