mental-health
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A Field Guide for the Recently Injured (and the Perpetually Unlucky) There’s a certain poetry to disaster.One minute you’re cruising down U.S. 19, the next you’re an accidental performance artist in a symphony of airbags and bad decisions. Time slows. Metal folds. Your playlist doesn’t. And before the smoke clears, your phone’s already buzzing –
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Auditions: strangers.Closing night: siblings.Strike: bitter custody battle where no one gets the good prop sword. That’s the cycle. Every show. Every time. The judge rules: Act I: The Rehearsal Cult You don’t join a cast. You’re abducted.Script in hand.Eyes wide.Someone already humming warm-ups like a Gregorian monk who overdosed on LaCroix. Day One: Hi, nice to
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It happened again. A Stanley Cup exploded in a hot car, sending glittery shrapnel and emotional damage across the dashboard.The video hit TikTok.The comments hit back. And suddenly, we weren’t just talking about water bottles.We were talking about identity. conformity. and the quiet panic of being seen as someone who doesn’t care about hydration. I. The Cult
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A meditation on holding professional gravity and creative chaos in the same breath I wore a tie to a deposition this morning and quoted Foucault to my kid at lunch. Both acts felt subversive. Let’s begin with the obvious: contradiction is not a flaw in the system. It is the system. I’m a trial lawyer who writes
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By Brian S. Brijbag, Esq. There’s something magical — and maddening — about the one-act play. Too short to waste time.Too long to just be a scene.Too finite to wander.Too powerful to be dismissed. A great one-act doesn’t feel like a short play. It feels like a complete world — one that opens, cracks, burns, and closes in
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I’ve spent my life standing in two very different rooms:One has a judge’s bench. The other, a stage.In one, I argue law. In the other, I let characters speak for themselves.Both are performances. Both demand truth. This is Chaos and Craft — not just a blog, but a living collision between the rigid and the ridiculous,
Brian Brijbag 