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Dumpster Fires
by Barret Baumgart
Every writer dreams of a room of their own. Even better, a room with a view… dumpsterfires.substack.com
Episodes
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Saving the California Shithole
As California’s gubernatorial candidates, tech executives, and mayoral hopefuls continue to contemplate the mass unemployment anticipated from continued advances in artificial intelligence, they would do well to look back at the state’s landmark 1850 legislation as a potential roadmap for…
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Saddlerock Ranch Insanity
The creation of this ephemeral under-clicked content required 27 hours so I’m not going to talk about it. Enjoy! Except, well… here’s a great detail that did not make it in the mini-doc: After annihilating the federal parks budget, President Ronald Reagan was so desperate to dredge the money to...
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Inconceivable Consumption
In June 2005, I was ejected from my high school graduation ceremony at Patrick Henry High in San Diego, where I was wearing a white robe, having one of the top GPAs in my graduating class, for screaming the words “F**k US Imperialism.” The principal withheld my diploma. I think of that afternoon...
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Mountains of Madness
Short of the great flooded valleys—the damming of Hetch Hetchy in Yosemite, which nearly drove John Muir to suicide, or the flooding of Glen Canyon Dam that created Lake Powell, burying 190-miles of the most fantastic sculpted desert canyons on earth under six-hundred feet of water—there remains...
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The End of Hostilities
While the drunk t-ball coaches who never found the clit wear masks like f*****g cowards as they hunt Mexicans in unmarked GMC Suburbans across American cities—occasionally shooting soccer moms in the face—I thought I’d make a fun informative video about this important overlooked historical site...
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Argumentum Ad Baculum
Have you ever heard of the BACULUM? It’s the perfect holiday gift! It’s all natural, affordable, and sure to spark fun family conversation about the FALL of MAN. It’s also dredges up a bit of abysmal trivia I’ve dropped to no avail in a few unpublished essays over the years—trivia which I share…
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From Worthlessness to Wealth
Back in 2018 when Christina ruined my life by telling me she would kill me (by castration) if I wrote about the 1959 nuclear meltdown in Los Angeles at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory—the largest nuclear meltdown in US history—I lied to her and told her that I would not actually make my new…
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The "Infernal" "Grotesque" "Demoniacal" Joshua Tree
Did you know that Joshua Tree National Park was founded on Halloween Day, 1994? It’s almost as if federal government had some inkling of the vast hate once heaped upon the lowly, humble, “demoniacal” Joshua Tree. The strange saga of Joshua Tree antipathy was largely forgotten until, well, I dug…
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The Most Sexually Frustrated Cat on Earth
For years I’ve wanted to say something about P-22, formerly the world’s most famous mountain lion (RIP-22). And, well, I finally got around to it—albeit in the form of a deranged 3 minute Instagram Reel, created largely in the hopes of improving my numbers on social media so that I might…
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The LA Times Stole my Viral Reporting
On Monday, it came to my attention that one of the most prominent journalists in Southern California, Gustavo Arellano, lifted the contents of the viral Reel I shared with you and thousands of other people last week. My El Aliso Instagram Reel, viewed 23,000 times, with a total watch time of 127...
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El Aliso Tree
Happy #NationalWhiteWineDay #winelover #winetasting Actually that was yesterday. For years I’ve wanted to create some “content” about this insane spot in downtown LA, a couple blocks a from where I work. And, well, I finally got my s**t together and did it. Watch the video and weep. The below is…
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Full Metal Book Jacket - Documentary Footage
“Writing is about discovering things hitherto unseen. Otherwise there’s no point to the process.” —W.G. Sebald Weird is an older, stranger word than most realize. It derives from the ancient root wert, “to twist or to wind.” When we ask, “How did you wind up here?” or when we say, “I lost my…
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In a Future Far, Far Beyond the Festival
At the start of November I returned to the Mojave Desert to attend Ridgecrest’s 10th annual Petroglyph Festival. I’d been following the event for a decade, ever since I became obsessed with the petroglyphs on the China Lake naval base while writing my first book, but something felt different this...
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Stress Ruins Flesh
Soothing New Podcast Content!!! Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or on the Substack app. I live behind an actual slaughterhouse, and around the corner from a gay sex club, which shares a back wall with a pet hospital and a new charter elementary school. There’s a lot going on here. It’s one…
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A Mortician's Paradise - Expanding Erewhonian Nightmare Part 4
Join me as we sink deeper into the Expanding Erewhonian Nightmare and tie it all back to my failed book project about America’s largest nuclear meltdown at the Boeing-owned Santa Susana Field Laboratory. Part 4 of the “singular, hilarious, and groundbreaking study” (The New York Times) available…
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Utopia Means 'Nowhere' - Expanding Erewhonian Nightmare Part 3
Part 3 of the “singular, hilarious, and groundbreaking study” (The New York Times) available on Apple Podcasts & Spotify Here the horseshit really starts heating up… Did you know the obscenely overpriced, celebrity obsessed LA-based wellness grocer Erewhon is actually named after a fictional...
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The Privilege of Continuance - Expanding Erewhonian Nightmare Part 2
Part 2 of the “singular, hilarious, and groundbreaking study” (The New York Times) available on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Recently I discussed how I arrived inside Erewhon, Los Angeles’s most expensive health food store, for the first time ever in my life. The traumatic fecal-encrusted episode…
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Joggin' to Erewhon - Expanding Erewhonian Nightmare Part 1
Behold the origins of my dismal errand… to Erewhon. In an effort to improve my health and not commit suicide, I’ve been exercising more the past few months. It feels good to get out early and hate the thing you’re doing to yourself more than yourself. Sometimes, jogging, you can even imagine…
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Los Angeles - City of Demons
Los Angeles was for years the most murderous city in America. Newspapers called it Los Diablos instead of Los Angeles. “Some think it odd that there has been no violent deaths during the two weeks that we have been here,” an agricultural surveyor wrote home in 1860. “May the Lord watch over me.”...
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Every writer dreams of a room of their own. Even better, a room with a view… dumpsterfires.substack.com
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Dumpster Fires is created and hosted by Barret Baumgart.
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