Matthew B. Peterson
@nondrowsyformula.bsky.social
The psychology of it all is what I think will be hardest for any survivors to reconcile in the inevitable future reckoning. I’m just writing down my thoughts on that as fast as I can think them for whomever is left and wants to read what it was like to cling to sanity while watching this unfold.
January 15, 2026 at 11:57 PM
The psychology of it all is what I think will be hardest for any survivors to reconcile in the inevitable future reckoning. I’m just writing down my thoughts on that as fast as I can think them for whomever is left and wants to read what it was like to cling to sanity while watching this unfold.
Sober person here, not generally an advocate for altering one’s state, but how can we get some psychedelics into these motherfuckers stat
January 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Sober person here, not generally an advocate for altering one’s state, but how can we get some psychedelics into these motherfuckers stat
Seasonal depression usually involves the reassuring caveat that things are not as bad as they seem, but today I’m comforted by the awareness that I’m not crazy or sick, everything is truly awful. Another mental health PSA from a mental health professional all out of give-a-fucks.
January 7, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Seasonal depression usually involves the reassuring caveat that things are not as bad as they seem, but today I’m comforted by the awareness that I’m not crazy or sick, everything is truly awful. Another mental health PSA from a mental health professional all out of give-a-fucks.
I made it to episode 5 of the new season of Stranger Things before I noped out due to exposition poisoning. Seriously, it’s awful.
December 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I made it to episode 5 of the new season of Stranger Things before I noped out due to exposition poisoning. Seriously, it’s awful.
You’re welcome.
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MTV Christmas Day with commercials and bumps | 1985
YouTube video by Mone Media
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December 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
You’re welcome.
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Surely I’m not the only one who thought Jack White absolutely killed it yesterday during the Detroit/Green Bay halftime show?
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Surely I’m not the only one who thought Jack White absolutely killed it yesterday during the Detroit/Green Bay halftime show?
I'm canceling my Spotify subscription until the ICE ads are removed. Streaming hate is a choice and I refuse to fund it. #CancelSpotify app.sosha.ai/s/p4bVyWuK
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
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November 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I'm canceling my Spotify subscription until the ICE ads are removed. Streaming hate is a choice and I refuse to fund it. #CancelSpotify app.sosha.ai/s/p4bVyWuK
On the 1yr anniversary of Helene’s wrath, here’s my essay “The Flood” I posted shortly after that describes my experience during and after the storm and ties it together with other game-changing events of my life. May the healing continue.
nondrowsyformula.ghost.io/the-flood/
nondrowsyformula.ghost.io/the-flood/
The Flood
It’s August in the late, hot summer of 1989, weeks before we start our senior year in high school, and we are sitting in my 1980 Honda Accord hatchback in Amy’s driveway, listening to Indigo Girls on ...
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September 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
On the 1yr anniversary of Helene’s wrath, here’s my essay “The Flood” I posted shortly after that describes my experience during and after the storm and ties it together with other game-changing events of my life. May the healing continue.
nondrowsyformula.ghost.io/the-flood/
nondrowsyformula.ghost.io/the-flood/
I’m back, fools. New host, new site, new essay. No politics. This one connects midlife sobriety, 1980s a/c, Huggies, Wayne's World, Watermelons, Cher, The Substance, Quincy's Big Fat Yeast Roll, and a certain beloved film that rhymes with Mirty Mancing.
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The Opposite Shore
As promised in my last series of posts, here’s the story of why I took a break from publishing essays due to turning my full attention to doing something really hard, to make something right. I’d been...
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September 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I’m back, fools. New host, new site, new essay. No politics. This one connects midlife sobriety, 1980s a/c, Huggies, Wayne's World, Watermelons, Cher, The Substance, Quincy's Big Fat Yeast Roll, and a certain beloved film that rhymes with Mirty Mancing.
nondrowsyformula.ghost.io/the-opposite...
nondrowsyformula.ghost.io/the-opposite...
I’m 53 today, and my prostate is “swole”, though that’s not the compliment that it thinks it is.
July 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I’m 53 today, and my prostate is “swole”, though that’s not the compliment that it thinks it is.
Six months sober today. Grateful, humbled, relieved, and still figuring it out. I don’t know all the right ways to live yet, I just know that wasn’t it.
July 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Six months sober today. Grateful, humbled, relieved, and still figuring it out. I don’t know all the right ways to live yet, I just know that wasn’t it.
Real talk: saying this to validate others who may relate: My first waking thought every day has been "What are we gonna do?" I don't see how this ends, I daydream about foreign liberators. I can feel that this is not good for a human nervous system. I don't want to hate like this.
July 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Real talk: saying this to validate others who may relate: My first waking thought every day has been "What are we gonna do?" I don't see how this ends, I daydream about foreign liberators. I can feel that this is not good for a human nervous system. I don't want to hate like this.
Yo if you listen to the audio of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American, turn up the volume and listen to how hard the bass of her theme music slaps. It rumbled some dishware in my cabinets this morning. Literally, figuratively.
July 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Yo if you listen to the audio of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American, turn up the volume and listen to how hard the bass of her theme music slaps. It rumbled some dishware in my cabinets this morning. Literally, figuratively.
The news is awful and people are garbage. Have a great weekend.
July 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The news is awful and people are garbage. Have a great weekend.
One is Urkel in a Pepsi commercial that aired during Live Aid, and the other is me in my very first church photo. Samesies!
July 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
One is Urkel in a Pepsi commercial that aired during Live Aid, and the other is me in my very first church photo. Samesies!
Today is the 40th anniv. of the day my dad caved and gave me bday money 3 wks early to get me off the couch on a sunny July Saturday bc I was watching Live Aid all day- Rode my bike to the toy store, bought my first skateboard, got home in time to see U2 and Queen and my life changed immeasurably.
July 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Today is the 40th anniv. of the day my dad caved and gave me bday money 3 wks early to get me off the couch on a sunny July Saturday bc I was watching Live Aid all day- Rode my bike to the toy store, bought my first skateboard, got home in time to see U2 and Queen and my life changed immeasurably.
Man I thought I’d heard some filthy jokes in my day but some of the shit they have Judy Leigh say on The Righteous Gemstones makes me clutch my damn pearls like a beehived Sunday school teacher. Wow.
July 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Man I thought I’d heard some filthy jokes in my day but some of the shit they have Judy Leigh say on The Righteous Gemstones makes me clutch my damn pearls like a beehived Sunday school teacher. Wow.
New series of travel writing up now at www.nondrowsyformula.com
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June 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
New series of travel writing up now at www.nondrowsyformula.com
Hey y'all- Took a writing break for reasons I explain on my site, but as I am preparing a new essay, I've posted a 10-pt. series of travel writing from an epic RV trip I took with my wife and friends in Aug 2023. It was fun to experience and to write, hope you enjoy it.
www.nondrowsyformula.com
www.nondrowsyformula.com
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June 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Hey y'all- Took a writing break for reasons I explain on my site, but as I am preparing a new essay, I've posted a 10-pt. series of travel writing from an epic RV trip I took with my wife and friends in Aug 2023. It was fun to experience and to write, hope you enjoy it.
www.nondrowsyformula.com
www.nondrowsyformula.com
Back from a hiatus- was busy getting dragged on another social media app. Anyway, serious question: So…what do we now? Just wait for the bombs to come?
June 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Back from a hiatus- was busy getting dragged on another social media app. Anyway, serious question: So…what do we now? Just wait for the bombs to come?
Serious allegorical question on the 40th anniversary of the greatest story ever told: So if we are all Goonies and MAGA is the Fratellis, who is our Sloth that breaks rank and helps us escape and what is the Baby Ruth we can offer to entice them?
June 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Serious allegorical question on the 40th anniversary of the greatest story ever told: So if we are all Goonies and MAGA is the Fratellis, who is our Sloth that breaks rank and helps us escape and what is the Baby Ruth we can offer to entice them?
Aggressively saying good morning and making eye contact with Gen Zers I pass on my morning walk and watching them squirm with discomfort in being acknowledged by an IRL stranger is my favorite flex of Gen X middle-aged life. I might like it a little too much.
June 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Aggressively saying good morning and making eye contact with Gen Zers I pass on my morning walk and watching them squirm with discomfort in being acknowledged by an IRL stranger is my favorite flex of Gen X middle-aged life. I might like it a little too much.
RIP Mike Peters of The Alarm. Highly recommend a listen of their 1985 album Strength, an underheralded classic of chiming, anthemic mid-80s alt-rock that soundtracked many earnest skate sessions and broken-hearted moments of my adolescence.
April 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
RIP Mike Peters of The Alarm. Highly recommend a listen of their 1985 album Strength, an underheralded classic of chiming, anthemic mid-80s alt-rock that soundtracked many earnest skate sessions and broken-hearted moments of my adolescence.
open.spotify.com/track/70q0mk... I know there’s some bangers coming out this year by exalted artists, but I’d be lying if I told you this wasn’t exactly what my soul needed right now. Be as snooty as you want about your musical tastes but if this doesn’t get all up in ya then you might be dead.
Learn to Let Go
The Doobie Brothers · Learn to Let Go · Song · 2025
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April 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
open.spotify.com/track/70q0mk... I know there’s some bangers coming out this year by exalted artists, but I’d be lying if I told you this wasn’t exactly what my soul needed right now. Be as snooty as you want about your musical tastes but if this doesn’t get all up in ya then you might be dead.
Ok I am assuming that Dad Jokes are sort of shared in the collective unconsciousness of corny men and this has surely happened before but for about 5 seconds, I was proud of this one: I see dead people.
March 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Ok I am assuming that Dad Jokes are sort of shared in the collective unconsciousness of corny men and this has surely happened before but for about 5 seconds, I was proud of this one: I see dead people.