Oh, hello!
I didn’t see you there fleeing other websites to find something that might be 1% less nightmarish but could potentially have 25% more typos. If that’s what you were looking for, you found the right place! And that place? It was right here all along. Where you were looking for it.
Except for the 1% less nightmarish part because, mama, it is gonna be a real rollercoaster. Not in a fun metaphorical “let’s go on an adventure” way. More like in a Roller Coaster Tycoon way in which I hope everyone doesn’t fall off as I figure out how to make the physics work.
Welcome to At the Mountains of Madness. If you don’t know me, I’m Mike Drucker. I’m a writer and comedian living in New York City. I’ve written for television, comics, and video games. I’ve performed around the world. I’ve been nominated for eight Emmys and lost all of them. I once came in second place in a competition for Philadelphia’s funniest person and I didn’t even live there. I’ve written Spider-Man. I named a character in a Legend of Zelda game.
This is all true.
Yet here we are.
At the Mountains of Sadness will be a collection of thoughts (oh god), stories (please no), and essays (for the love of Christ) about everything ranging from video games to movies to politics to sadness. In fact, imagine the first three covered in a layer of deep anxious dread like dust on Miss Havisham’s cake. Also, if you want an image of where this abominable word factory lives, it’s me making a Miss Havisham reference while trying to get people to read this page.
So!
If you’re interested in nerdy things, the news of the world, and the deepest of depressions, please sign up! Please. If I don’t get attention, I fade away like Marty McFly’s siblings in the photograph.
As of now, this Substack will be completely free. I hope to implement an extremely cheap subscription at some point for extra content. Gotta get my beak wet, sister! The additional materials behind the subscription will include extra game reviews, stories, and an extremely bad advice column. Maybe more. We’ll see.
If you’ve read this far, go ahead and make the jump to subscribe. I hope you’ll enjoy it. I’ll try to keep typos to only that 25% goal. If you don’t subscribe, I’ll likely never know. That’s what makes the internet so great: I can beg you to look at me and I’ll never know if you actually did!
Please look at me.
Mike Drucker