Welcome to Fudge Monthly

when you're here, you're family!

A new dawn! A new era! And a pretty dumb name! Welcome to Fudge Monthly! A non-periodical, with no consistent throughline, where I plan to play and have my ideas hang out and enjoy themselves. If you’re reading this, a million blessings to you and your family. 

What is a Fudge Monthly? 

When I was young and fun and extremely skinny and in college, my roommates and I were the recipients of our house’s previous tenants’ Urban Outfitters catalog. We were all typically covered in dirt, and I think collectively owned a few pieces of clothing that were new, and basically had no interest in the catalog and what it was selling. But what we did love to do was write FUDGE MONTHLY on top of it, and leave the catalog out and take turns scribbling dirty jokes and funny outfits onto the models to keep us entertained as the month passed. 

It was juvenile, but it was a form of self-expression that was extremely fun with absolutely the lowest stakes possible. It was creating for the joy of creating and for the joy of community. 

Just about a decade later I was no longer in college, barely covered in dirt, and living in LA with a newfound career in photography (which was largely an accident — a topic for a future stack), and felt like my work was feeling meh. I was craving something fun and something for me that could generate new work and new community.

So, In 2016 I did a photo monthly photo zine also called Fudge Monthly. Each month had a new theme, and I spent the month taking photos around that theme and then printed it, threw a release party and invited all my friends to come hang out and take a look. I made it through August, and then it folded as my fiancé and I started planning our wedding for October (again, another future stack). 

This site completes the Fudge Monthly trilogy and the fudge is giving me the old feelings it’s always given me. I’m excited to create something new, and something fun, and something that I haven’t ever done before. I’m excited for the new ideas and new expressions. 

I have a few ideas on how to get this show on the road. 

I want to keep a log of things that are going on in my studio, whether that’s projects or ideas we’re excited about, or crowd sourcing solutions to things we’re wondering about. 

I’ve been holding in a lot of feelings of extreme grief that I want to express, and have been searching for a way to express. I think this might be an outlet for that.

Probably going to do a lot of wine reviews. I’d also love to do a weekly Q&A to answer your biggest questions about the creative life and life in general.

I also have so many stories I want to share. Life has been weird and there’s been so many small moments that have stuck with me that I can’t just take to the goddamn grave. So they’ll be future stacks.

Might reboot my radio show Island Time here in some way.

There’s probably room to have an entrepreneurial discussion about future business ideas. For example, a restaurant called High Steaks that’s a steak house that cooks all of its meat in weed butter.

And SO MANY HOT TAKES! 

Welcome to Fudge Monthly, babies. When you’re here, you’re family.