"At this point it’s ok to just let someone’s half-baked and self-important attitude endanger another, rather than drive myself mad trying to convince them otherwise." #TheCoarseGrind at Into the Void. intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/05/02/the… #hardcore #hardcorepunk #covid

The writing life ain't a good life but it's my life. #TheCoarseGrind at Into the Void. intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/05/02/the…

“So ends the decade on the fringe as your correspondent of the interior,working the beat of mental health talking ‘no bullshit no filler about the joys and hardships of being an artist in a world that doesn’t care.’” #TheCoarseGrind at Into the Void. bit.ly/3w1mHY1

The blood stains of the Knoxville girl still linger on my front porch... —Murder Ballads by Maria Santa Poggi at Into the Void. intothevoidmagazine.com/article/murder…

New by A.Rihn, the final ever installment of THE PUGILIST: "Boxing is hardly perfect. But it suits me in its stark imperfection, its absence of camouflage. It is a sport which bears little apology, though it may have much to apologize for." intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/05/15/the… #boxing

This is it - after two years, all good things must end. Today is the final edition of my column, The Pugilist. 👊👊👊 intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/05/15/the…

I can’t write a thing. #TheCoarseGrind at Into the Void. #personaljournalism #writerslife #writersblock #depression #finalcentury #anthropocene #endoftheworld #itstheendoftheworldasweknowitandIfeelsick #jimtrainer intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/05/02/the…

"What could I say to the Senator, that he’ll hear anyway, and how could I relate anything to somebody who kills for no more an arbitrary reason than law?" Part 38 of #TheCoarseGrind goes live at Into the Void this Sunday. intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/05/02/the…

For the last 3 years Editor ️​ gave me ink because #punkrock is an ethos and commerce is only a tool for the voice of the people. Part 38 of #TheCoarseGrind goes live at Into the Void this Sunday. intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/05/02/the…

"I drop the canvas and brush and oil and walk out into the void." Part 38 of #TheCoarseGrind goes live at Into the Void tomorrow. #personaljournalism #writing #wrtierslife #artist #anthropocene #jimtrainer intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/05/02/the…

New by Jim Trainer: "What all this has to do with middle-age and Art, final days and the raging rants of a hopeless poet is that I’m making deadline but I don’t know why. I’m making Art...and it’s cast out into the fray." intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/06/06/the… #writingcommunity #writing

Anger and agony. What else? #TheCoarseGrind at Into the Void.

"The collective psychology of any sentient being in the Final Century is boiling down to a resolution not to kill yourself but wonder, every day, why." Part 38 of #TheCoarseGrind is live at Into the Void. #jimtrainer #personaljournalism #townes intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/06/06/the…

Middle-age, am I right? Part 38 of #TheCoarseGrind at Into the Void. #jimtrainer #personaljournalism #townesvanzandt intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/06/06/the…

Middle-age is a motherfucker. Part 38 of #TheCoarseGrind at Into the Void. intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/06/06/the… ⠀ #jimtrainer #personaljournalism #townesvanzandt

"It’s Too Late to Wish I’d Been Stronger" is Part 38 of #TheCoarseGrind. At Into the Void. #jimtrainer #personaljournalism #depression #writing #suicide #anthropocene intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/06/06/the…

"I’m caught between knowing I don’t do enough and never taking credit for the work that I do. I fire off at deadline and slink back and slough off." Part 39 of #TheCoarseGrind goes live tomorrow at Into the Void. intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/06/06/the…

"There’s a poetry to our decline and besides—death and graft and greed are hard tropes to live down as a personal journalist in the Final Century." #TheCoarseGrind, a column on the creative life, has been published monthly at Into the Void. intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/07/04/the…

The Coarse Grind's not dead. Part 40 goes live tomorrow at Into the Void. #punksnotdead #personaljournalism #jimtrainer #punkrock #TheCoarseGrind intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/07/04/the…

"I wanna see you, Reader, feel you and hear your words, experience the body of you far and away from where the mind of some mogul or generating platform dictates culture and has the unmitigated balls to tell us who we are." At Into the Void. intothevoidmagazine.com/2021/08/01/the…