Hi, friends. I’m Stephen Heath Weidman. I write, draw, and animate things. You can find my essays, illustrations, and long-term projects here. I’m based in Los Angeles.
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We Are The Walrus
It freaks me out that walruses can whistle. Instagram’s For You page algorithm is like an eager child who discovered one joke that makes the adults laugh and now feels …
The Gaping Maw of Google
The open internet might be dead, and Google might have killed it. Last week my coworker sent me a TechCrunch article about how Google Search, at least as we’ve known …
Cough and Turn Heads
Since the pandemic, I’ve become super paranoid about coughing in public. It doesn’t matter that years of working as a bartender have trained me like Pavlov’s dog to bury my …
The Line-Go-Uppigator
Buy Sticker The Line-Go-Uppigator, or reptilius adlunamus, is a serpentine dragon with a zigzagging neck that grows indefinitely towards the moon. Its eyes and snout are locked in a permanent …
The Pugnacious Pigcock
Buy the Sticker The Pugnacious Pigcock is an irascible avian-porcine hybrid with a proclivity for displays of feckless aggression. When provoked, it flourishes a tail made of red-tipped elliptical feathers, …
Vibe Coderpillar | The FancySchmancy Creature Feature
Buy the Sticker In a parallel world dominated by generative AI, the Vibe Coderpillar has evolved to become the ultimate cybernetic lifeform. It has grown two single-digit appendages for blindly …
Creature Feature: Long-Necked Frizzlians
BUY THE STICKER The male lonelinenss epidemic is tough, but I recently discovered a dimension where the men have found a solution. The men of the Long-Necked Frizzlians were once …
Creature Feature: Dermot the Bwog
buy the sticker Meet Dermot the Bwog, the latest entry in the FancySchmancy Creature Feature. Not to be confused with any felt-based amphibious puppets. Dermot lives in a sewage treatment …
Do Androids Sing Electric Hymns?
Adam Neely's essay on Suno reminds me of the AI-generated worship music I heard for the first time a couple of years ago.
Fonts Are Woke, I Guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZJG30i6a4g (Photo: Guy Stevens) If you’re tired of being drafted into America’s culture wars, too bad. Now you’ve got to pick sides between two default fonts in Microsoft Word. I’m …
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