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Trapped in Flesh

Trapped in Flesh

This Department is dedicated to the ongoing collaboration between your brain and the oddly damp container (your body) it arrived in.

There are three tags:

Neuroscience for Lost People

How NOT to Live

Body Side Effects

Here we'll examine health, longevity, and “wellness” as a series of negotiations between a nervous system that wants transcendence and a body that would just like to sit down and not be perceived, yet still wants to become immortal.

If you came here looking for actionable advice, you may have taken a wrong turn; if you came here because your knee started making a new scary sound and your browser history is now 87% symptoms, you’re in exactly the right place.

Here, body horror is mostly admin: cells misbehaving, organs freelancing, and the slow realization that your skeleton is not a permanent loaner but an active participant with opinions.

The goal is not to fix you, heal you, or optimize you, but to point at the bizarre spectacle of being awake inside a creaky, overworked, tired body and say, with a small laugh, “Ah, so it’s not just me after all...”