Banal Hemorrhage

Hi everyone! I will be moving this site to Patreon, mostly due to the fact that I don’t have enough time to handle html glitches and I don’t like paying an annual fee for this site and I hate having to put up ads to support the fee! I will keep this site for a while until everything has moved out and may keep it in the future as a place to direct people to find my Patreon if this works out. There will still be free content at Patreon, with the options to subscribe for more interactivity and shout outs.  So here’s my new home from now on: PATREON/BANALHEMORRHAGE Thanks for being there for me and sticking with me as I went from this: To whatever level I’m at today. 

I’ve been obsessed with drawing and describing our silos and bubbles that have become exponentially more and more pronounced. The surgical separation of humanity in two separate species by the United States is as fascinating as it is terrifying. Homo Liberalis and Homo Conservativus. And of course these terms have no semblance of consistency, as we see liberals and libertarians drifting apart and conservatives circling back to monarchy in the USA after a long period of separation. My first attempt was this one:  The blog post can be found  here . When I first posted that comic in Reddit, I made a lot of people angry.  Apparently, pointing out that people live in ideological bubbles is the same as saying both sides are equal. People’s reaction to the comic felt like denial to me. I think humans don’t seem to want to realize that they are in bubbles. But we are. Increasingly so.  And make no mistakes, these bubbles are artificially generated. I was listening to The Lie...

Do you remember 2021? Because of January 6th, the year was marred by stress and anxiety. But after that mess was over… did you ever find yourself thinking, gloating, or relishing in the huge loss that MAGA people suffered? Maybe right anfter after the election , because the Looney Tunes-like spectacle of “Stop the Count,” Giuliani, and the Kraken lady was insane, perverse, weird, and deserved ridicule. But in 2021? After 2021, my ridicule was directed mostly at anti-maskers and vaccine deniers who were putting us all at risk. During and after 2021, the U.S. was focused on recovering from supply chain issues, developing vaccines, and addressing worldwide inflation—not on the suffering of MAGA people, who were apparently super pissed because people were getting student loan forgiveness and the country was undertaking an actual infrastructure program. In 2024, we got our asses whooped, and it was a legitimate win. But now, in the first quarter of 2025, MAGA people are exhilarated and enth...

In the past year a few  studies pointing at “age bumps” have made it to the public eye.  There seems to be a few periods in your life when you age qualitatively faster. Large bumps happen in your mid forties and your sixties. And let me tell ya, I anecdotally believe it. I got to that first milestone recently and all I can say is that something not-so-chill is definitely happening to my vessel.  My eyesight is exploring new ways to suck, my cholesterol is high, drinking more than two drinks guarantees a hangover, and when a party starts at 10:00 PM I will definitely ghost it. These are just a few of my new features. 5 years ago I drew a comic about how I hadn’t felt the ravages of aging. Today? Today I feel my slow march towards the sweet embrace of oblivion. Thankfully, I have no pains and no huge health issues, but I am feeling all the things I was warned about. I’m making noises when I stand up, and sometimes when I sit down and sometimes when I’m thinking of doing e...

Marriage is not for the weak hearted. However,  it remains to this day the best decision I’ve ever made, to propose to this girl in an ornate pool in a temperate city in a beautiful South Asian country. At the beginning of the trip to this different corner of our known world, I had no idea I was going to pop the question. But pop went the question in my head and it was one of the most pervasive and intrusive thoughts I’ve had. I bought a 5 cent ring and proposed to her immediately.  Navigating these 8 years has been a learning opportunity for the both of us, as we have grown and the world around us has arguably grown as well. Thinking and reacting about how your spouse is feeling while realizing how you are feeling and what your surrounding loved ones are feeling would be a challenge for artificial intelligence and we’re just meat puppets with small buffers! Finding someone for whom you are willing to endure these kind of mental gymnastics is the biggest privilege I’ve ever kn...

Hey classic horror films were fine and dandy back in the day. They had real horrors happening, too, with two world wars happening in the span between the first Frankenstein film (1910) and House of Dracula (1945). Monsters were a fantastical thing to fear in a time in which people were seeing human monstrosity on the daily.  Today, many regions are still experiencing daily horrors, but the things that terrify me the most don’t have legs, claws, fangs or bolts on their necks. It’s the realization of entrenched institutionalized racism, the obvious encroachment and popularity of white supremacist philosophies, the infinitesimal but prolonged deleterious effects of our lifestyles on the environment and the systematic erosion of truth and science. These are the things that are all around us and seem to be at a crescendo. These are the things that make me hide under the covers. The most impactful moment while viewing a horror film happened to me in 2017, eight years ago. The movie was “...

Friendship in adulthood is difficult and not to be taken for granted. I hear tales of married couples with kids who now are limited to hanging out with the parents of kids they befriend. These situations fill me with anxiety, like hoping to get a real connection in a work networking event. The odds for authenticity are low and the opportunity for awkwardness high. For me, as an introvert, I’ve always relied on fun extroverts I feel comfortable around to take a liking to me and adopt me. I’ve been rich with friends throughout my life under this paradigm. But it gets more and more difficult as you age and stack up complications. It seems that after a certain period in life you are more likely to lose friends than to gain them. I’ve lost friends to so many causes, including: my depression episodes, their depression episodes, Trumpism, Chavismo, and the biggest killer, geography. I’ve lost friends because it’s been so long it’s kind of awkward now, and some to the fact I don’t enjoy partyi...

Sex appeal is a construct. There’s no further proof needed for this than our own experiences. As we’ve aged together I’ve noticed how sexuality has changed with us. At present, I believe some of Roxanne’s erogenous zones include literal zones of cleanliness and order in the house. As for me, I have never been attracted to a woman more than when I saw my wife protectively yelling at the owners of an unleashed dog that was about to attack our pups. She’s such a badass and I love her when she stands up for herself. Like the hairs-on-my-arm-raise love. Neither of those things were in the equation when we were playing the field, back in the day. For those of you who’ve been married a long time, have you thought what it would be like to be single again? I know for a fact that for some married peeps fantasize about it, but in my case, I dread that imaginary situation with intensity. Dating was awkward as heck for me. To get to the appropriate level of socialization needed for me to approach w...