Published May 7, 2026, 10:15 AM EDT Former radio and TV guy (I Heart Radio and PBS). Now a writer, researcher, and musician who writes about the absurdity of our modern world and other offbeat topics. Specializes in weird music, the old web, retro video games and tech, and researching strange, yet interesting things. His work has appeared in Vice, Tedium, Star Trek.com, Today I Found Out, Tybebar, SyFy Wire, and How To Geek. Currently working on a variety of music, web, and writing projects. Visit him on the web at  https://djbuckfreelance.neocities.org/ . I do a lot of different projects in any given week. It can be everything from home lab experiments , features, instrument building, to making comics and doing some woodworking/household projects. I don't work for Ace Hardware and am not affiliated with them in any way (other than being a member of their rewards program), but it has certainly become one of my favorite hardware stores.…