Alex Vlahov, Author at HARDTIMES

May 30, 2025

As if the world wasn’t already falling apart, now you can add the microplastics piling up in your brain to…

February 22, 2025

The doctor said this was a first: no one had requested their own colonoscopy footage before. I said this was…

January 24, 2025

I keep getting your texts, but listen: you have no idea how busy I am online. There are so many…

January 3, 2025

You might be a squatter, but it’s just to keep the rebellious new wave, CBGB, Lower East Side spirit alive.…

December 18, 2024

Get ready for a truth bomb. I keep hearing about this new bullshit epidemic known as “male loneliness” and it…

November 16, 2024

HAYWARD, Calif. — Local man Nathaniel Poppavich is hell-bent on claiming his “rightful place in history” as the inventor of…

October 24, 2024

You can only refer to your spouse as Pinhead so many times. “It’s not a cute nickname!” she says. If…

August 29, 2024

Winter is coming back to Michigan. The stench of the dogfood factory won’t leave your clothes. But at least Oasis…

August 18, 2024

You rebel, you. Doing your thing in the sun. Blithely walking through life undisturbed. Tossing your hair without care. Sounds…

August 4, 2024

BEND, Ore. — Local amateur historian and occasional beloved family member Paul Poppavich vehemently dismisses news of fascism’s rising international…