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Chris Mohney

Chris Mohney is a writer and editor and eater and drinker.

The Secret History of Funny Pipe

May 27, 2025

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4 min read

The Secret History of Funny Pipe

A mysterious name for a banal object.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
BREAKING: Compost Bin Unboxing

May 20, 2025

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4 min read

BREAKING: Compost Bin Unboxing

Click here for more dirty pictures! Also worms.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
Against the Tumbler Composter

May 13, 2025

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5 min read

Against the Tumbler Composter

Unless that's all you can do, in which case, fine, okay.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
What Not to Post

May 6, 2025

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3 min read

What Not to Post

And how not to not post.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
An Emergency Evening

Apr 29, 2025

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4 min read

An Emergency Evening

Having a little pain, as a treat.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
NYC Swimming in Delicious Decay

Apr 22, 2025

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4 min read

NYC Swimming in Delicious Decay

Plus, the anti-Musk pro-Tesla sticker racket.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
How to Compost a Marriage

Apr 15, 2025

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6 min read

How to Compost a Marriage

Plus a look back at the pre-blog past of posting.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
The Devil Went Down to Georgia to Legally Compost Your Corpse

Apr 8, 2025

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5 min read

The Devil Went Down to Georgia to Legally Compost Your Corpse

But really it was always legal. Plus, the evil AI novel I almost sold, online.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
The Curbside Compost Microplastic Conundrum

Apr 1, 2025

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8 min read

The Curbside Compost Microplastic Conundrum

New York's food waste recycling might come with a little something extra.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
The Top 7 Compost Time Lapse Videos

Mar 25, 2025

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5 min read

The Top 7 Compost Time Lapse Videos

Basically the Oscars of rot.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
It's Green So It Must Be Good

Mar 18, 2025

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8 min read

It's Green So It Must Be Good

The tangled tale of bioplastics. Also, Nick Denton says hello.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
So Close to Climax

Mar 11, 2025

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2 min read

So Close to Climax

And yet so far from the world’s highest pile.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
The Seduction of Spontaneous Combustion

Mar 4, 2025

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5 min read

The Seduction of Spontaneous Combustion

Plus: An anniversary.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
Guest Composter: The Art of Decay

Feb 25, 2025

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11 min read

Guest Composter: The Art of Decay

Cassandra Marketos on navigating a post-contaminant world, compost as art, and teaching kids the joy of rot.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
Composting the Compost Calendar Concept

Feb 18, 2025

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5 min read

Composting the Compost Calendar Concept

And the sad story of the GoPro children who never existed.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
Beware the Deadly Juice Box

Feb 11, 2025

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5 min read

Beware the Deadly Juice Box

And the the principled shrinkage of online presence.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
How to Build a Gallows

Feb 4, 2025

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4 min read

How to Build a Gallows

Plus, rotten pumpkin update!

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
The Hippies Are Coming for Your Cardboard

Jan 28, 2025

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6 min read

The Hippies Are Coming for Your Cardboard

Plus, a confusion of prosecco.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
An Interlude at Cedar Grove

Jan 21, 2025

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3 min read

An Interlude at Cedar Grove

And mourning with Big Boy.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
The Lost William Gibson Interview

Jan 14, 2025

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12 min read

The Lost William Gibson Interview

But make it fashion. And what about rinsed eggs?

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
Your Pumpkins Want to Die

Jan 7, 2025

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4 min read

Your Pumpkins Want to Die

Also I died from wormes.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
The Year in Decay

Dec 31, 2024

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3 min read

The Year in Decay

Going medieval.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
The Christmas Tree Compost Question

Dec 24, 2024

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5 min read

The Christmas Tree Compost Question

Plus, a neckectomy for Mehetible.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
Guest Composter: Going Full Worm

Dec 17, 2024

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10 min read

Guest Composter: Going Full Worm

Ariel Kanter on the virtues of wriggler parenting.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
Whose Number One?

Dec 10, 2024

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4 min read

Whose Number One?

Not mine, at least not in my compost.

Chris Mohney
Chris Mohney
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