Today on Defenestration: It's the last day of 2025, and we have one last piece to share with you before we roll into 2026. Find out how to consume responsibly in today's offering from Julia Kopstein!

My 9-year-old described something as "rad" today. He probably picked this up from me, since I refuse to relinquish the slang of my past, but it was still jarring to hear it from the lips of a modern human.

My 9-year-old caught a shiny in Pokemon Z-A before me. 😆

My kids know that they don't need to ask for video games for Christmas unless it's something I'm genuinely not interested in. Because I WILL ask for games and they'll get to play them anyway. 😆

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals! 🎄🎅🏼 (I tease, I tease. You're a delight.)

We don't have anything new for you this Wednesday, but if you want something to get you into the holiday spirit, check out Sean Cahill's "That Special Time of Year" from the December 2025 issue of Defenestration: bit.ly/4s4g0SO Fresh nonfiction and fake nonfiction will start up again next week!

It's Christmas Eve, so it's time to pull out this 6-year-old comic I drew! Remember: Santa has a big job to do, but he doesn't do it alone!

It's almost Christmas and I forgot to share my #Lego Christmas village and train set! I took over the kitchen island to set this stuff up. 😆 My 9-year-old started a game where one of us hides a small yellow Lego frog somewhere in the village and the rest of us have to find it.

My wife asked me for pictures of some of my #Warhammer models. Apparently she was talking me up to some coworkers in the know who were trying to gauge how serious my hobby chops were.

One last reminder before I drift off to sleep: the December 2025 issue of Defenestration is available as of this morning. Free humorous fiction and poetry to tickle your eyeballs. Not literally because that would be awful. Check it out: bit.ly/4rYqRh4

Also, with the arrival of the new issue, Defenestration is once again open to short story and poetry submissions. The reading window lasts until April 5th: bit.ly/105Enuu

Read the issue that, were it turned into a film, would absolutely count as a Christmas movie. The December 2025 issue of Defenestration is here, and nine out of ten little drummer boys give it a resounding pa-rum-pa-pum-pum: bit.ly/4rYqRh4

The December 2025 issue of Defenestration is live! We've got some new faces and some returning talent this month. Give it a read!

Today on Defenestration: Diane Durant tries to get us all hot and bothered over banana bread.

Here's what's appearing in this month's issue of Defenestration: bit.ly/48D7BOz

Today on Defenestration: Ken Pisani shares the woes of a notable tuna mascot and his supposed good taste

I helped my mother-in-law get a (real) Christmas tree today, which reminded me of this comic I drew back in 2008. I don't actually have strong opinions on fake vs. real trees, but I enjoyed drawing this horrific personification.

Today on Defenestration: Kate Maxlow has recreated a neighborhood discussion board with chilling accuracy. Will we ever find out what made that loud sound?

Today on Defenestration: Billy D almost backs his car into someone who happens to have a hunchback but the whole hunchback thing really isn't important, honest.

Overheard and the hardware store: a child telling his mother, "I love toilets!"

Today on Defenestration: Many of you are familiar with the difficulty of titling your projects. Rick Kast's piece today touches on just that problem.

Today on Defenestration: Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Susan S. Levine presents a range of unique fragrances for the special people in your lives.

I got home from work to discover that my boys had watched the Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct without me. This is what ultimate betrayal feels like.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing okay as a parent, and then my 12-year-old starts dancing to James Brown's "Soulful Christmas" in the store. I'm doing better than okay. 😎

Groceries are embarrassingly expensive.

Today on Defenestration: Matt Bower gives us a glimpse of music stardom. What do you mean you've never heard of Johnny Logo and the Trademarks?!

I haven't posted much in the past week because I was in Maui with my wife celebrating our 20-year anniversary! First trip without the kids in 15 years. 😮

Check out these cute brownies my daughter and her friend made. They've got soot sprites!

My wife wanted to say "sunscreen" but called it "sun sauce" instead. 😆 That's its new name now. I don't make the rules.

Throwback Halloween comic I drew back in 2015 when Winslow dressed as the menstrual cycle. Stay safe out there tonight you monsters! 🎃

Today on Defenestration: Scott Talbot Evans presents the latest in time travel technology with a detailed user manual! Just remember that traveling back to dinosaur times voids the warranty. 🦖🦕

October might be spooky season, but it's also my anniversary month. And this October is extra special because it marks 20 years of marriage to this amazing woman. My wife still looks like this, by the way. I no longer look like an underweight vampire but I like to think I still have pretty hair.

Today on Defenestration: Emma McNamara blesses us with another of round of headlines. These are definitely fake, although these days it's kind of hard to tell.

Today on Defenestration: We've got one last comic by Robert J. Aragon up this month. Check it out!

I'm rereading some stuff I wrote last year. I... don't remember writing it but it sounds like me and it's pretty good. 😆

Today on Defenestration: Sabyasachi Roy gets all academic on us with his groundbreaking research on that crow that's always following you around.

Today on Defenestration: It's time for another Sunday comic, and we've got a spooky one by Bry Paul Berry to get you into the Halloween spirit! 👻

Every 80s kid was traumatized by a movie when they were little and it was probably Return to Oz.

My 9yo doesn't have his own phone so he borrows ours to look stuff up. My wife was looking through her search history today and saw "does eating poison ivy make me immune to its poison." Really glad he looked that one up before trying it.

Today on Defenestration: Fred D. White spins a tale of books abducted from the shelves of a soon-to-be-demolished library, their pages digitized.

Started playing Roots of Pacha the other day and I now have my new cozy game obsession.

Today on Defenestration: Andrea Tode shares a dream with us. Ghosts, babies, and a quest for a life-giving refrigerator... this thing has it all.

It's officially October. Time to start the month off right with the definitive #Halloween song: "Anything Can Happen On Halloween," sung by Tim Curry in the 1986 movie "The Worst Witch." 🎃 Has anybody seen my tambourine? bit.ly/3Wj06oU

Yesterday on Defenestration: Another comic by Robert J. Aragon (not Aragorn, who is an entirely different and fictional person who did not draw cartoons).

My 9-year-old found this cute little dude under a rock in our front yard. (Before you ask, no, he isn't venomous. The snake isn't venomous, either.)

Update: I bought Korean fried chicken.

Today on Defenestration: Chris Malloy pulls back the curtain of time, revealing the Earth's future. Lobsters are the dominant species. What do their history books have to say about humanity?

I'm craving Korean fried chicken...

Today on Defenestration: Another comic, this time by notorious sketch artist Mat Mendonca!

Today on Defenestration: Brett Olsen deals with these bleak and uncertain times by reading the Arby's menu the same way you might doom scroll. Read on to see how one such reading led to an eye-opening adventure.