Getting to know me (Day 1):
https://www.instagram.com/p/DR8RxrHD7e1/
Sing
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The songs only appear in web mode
The songs only appear in web mode
↓The Big Days↓
There comes a point in life (maybe an age) where if we are not spending most of our time cultivating our passions and chasing our dreams—eventually, you'll become nothing more than small talk.
↓A Little About Lindsay↓
Lindsay Wincherauk creates fearless, genre-defying books that blend memoir and fiction into darkly comic, humane portraits of modern life, and shares nearly 500 intimate reflections on books that honour the heart and soul of every story he encounters.
THE IMAGE PROBLEM
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An Op-ED
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An Op-ED
100% not A.I.
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Next Open-Mic: June 18
What the Audience is Saying (Experiencing)
The former barista is the resident truth/storyteller at a Vancouver Café every second Thursday, and on July 15, he is booked to perform his first Stand-Up Set at the Underground Comedy Club.
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Your writing style scratches my brain perfectly.
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Hi Lindsay,
My name is Lucas — I’m a photographer based in Vancouver. I’ve really been enjoying the content you share on your page, and I was wondering if you have any upcoming open mic events I could attend.
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What an honour. Thanks for following back. I really enjoy your content. Your selection of visuals and words touches my heart deeply. Thank you!!!
Hi Lindsay!
I saw you on stage at Trees Organic a few weeks ago, and after finding your videos on Instagram, I wanted to say you are very inspiring to me. I journal a lot and have always played with the idea of filming life and recording thoughtful insights.
Then, after seeing yours, I was like... This is it!!!
So, cool, my dude, keep on the good work; very inspiring!
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You are a wonderful human (❤️ Jane’s mom!)
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And after each show, audience members have come to Lindsay and hugged him.
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The photographer is witnessing.
The producer is feeling.
The reader is thinking.
The creator is inspired.
The audience member is connecting.
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What the Audience is Saying (Experiencing)
The former barista is the resident truth/storyteller at a Vancouver Café every second Thursday, and on July 15, he is booked to perform his first Stand-Up Set at the Underground Comedy Club.
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Your writing style scratches my brain perfectly.
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Hi Lindsay,
My name is Lucas — I’m a photographer based in Vancouver. I’ve really been enjoying the content you share on your page, and I was wondering if you have any upcoming open mic events I could attend.
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What an honour. Thanks for following back. I really enjoy your content. Your selection of visuals and words touches my heart deeply. Thank you!!!
- An International music producer.
Hi Lindsay!
I saw you on stage at Trees Organic a few weeks ago, and after finding your videos on Instagram, I wanted to say you are very inspiring to me. I journal a lot and have always played with the idea of filming life and recording thoughtful insights.
Then, after seeing yours, I was like... This is it!!!
So, cool, my dude, keep on the good work; very inspiring!
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You are a wonderful human (❤️ Jane’s mom!)
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And after each show, audience members have come to Lindsay and hugged him.
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The photographer is witnessing.
The producer is feeling.
The reader is thinking.
The creator is inspired.
The audience member is connecting.
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Lindsay Wincherauk (Comedy Bio)
Finding absurdity in ordinary life.
I turned to comedy at 66 (actually on the eve of turning 66) because life had finally become too strange not to talk about.
I'm an author and storyteller who wanders through ordinary moments looking for the absurd. I tell stories about aging, family, chance encounters, identity, and the wonderfully bizarre things people say and do. Some are hilarious. Some sneak up on you. All of them are true... or true enough.
I don't chase punchlines.
I scratch brains.
I turned to comedy at 66 (actually on the eve of turning 66) because life had finally become too strange not to talk about.
I'm an author and storyteller who wanders through ordinary moments looking for the absurd. I tell stories about aging, family, chance encounters, identity, and the wonderfully bizarre things people say and do. Some are hilarious. Some sneak up on you. All of them are true... or true enough.
I don't chase punchlines.
I scratch brains.
OPEN-MIC/Comedy Club Shows
Coming Shows
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No Longer Under Consideration
By a prominent agency.
Rejected after a request via a form letter.
No Longer Under Consideration
By a prominent agency.
Rejected after a request via a form letter.
The Barista
A voice for those pushed to society’s margins.
A darkly hilarious, surreal novel about corporate dehumanization and existential collapse, The Barista follows TB, a sixty-four-year-old former executive whose career disappears on the first day of the pandemic. Forced behind an espresso machine in a city slowly losing its humanity, he becomes an accidental witness to exploitation, violence, loneliness, and absurdity. As his world spirals through fragmented encounters, strange humour, and unexpected tenderness, the café becomes the stage for a reckoning with aging, inequality, and survival. One bitter cup at a time.
A voice for those pushed to society’s margins.
A darkly hilarious, surreal novel about corporate dehumanization and existential collapse, The Barista follows TB, a sixty-four-year-old former executive whose career disappears on the first day of the pandemic. Forced behind an espresso machine in a city slowly losing its humanity, he becomes an accidental witness to exploitation, violence, loneliness, and absurdity. As his world spirals through fragmented encounters, strange humour, and unexpected tenderness, the café becomes the stage for a reckoning with aging, inequality, and survival. One bitter cup at a time.
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Under Consideration
Under Consideration
Humans' Bistro
You are what we eat. And now, we’re eating you.
After humanity pushes the planet beyond repair, the animals make a radical decision: stop eating one another and open restaurants serving humans instead. Told as a bedtime story by a possibly unreliable grandfather, Humans’ Bistro is a darkly comic allegory about climate change, consumption, love, extinction, and whether empathy can survive our own appetites.
You are what we eat. And now, we’re eating you.
After humanity pushes the planet beyond repair, the animals make a radical decision: stop eating one another and open restaurants serving humans instead. Told as a bedtime story by a possibly unreliable grandfather, Humans’ Bistro is a darkly comic allegory about climate change, consumption, love, extinction, and whether empathy can survive our own appetites.
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Under Consideration
Under Consideration
Glue
A meta-memoir about identity, family, and the strange ways we hold ourselves together.
There is no guidebook for saying hello to your mother for the first time while she’s dying.
Glue explores a life shaped by family secrets, a devastating stroke, discovering biological parents, becoming a hate-crime witness, and learning that humour can exist alongside profound grief. Blending memoir with metafiction, it asks whether absurdity is sometimes the only thing strong enough to hold a life together.
A meta-memoir about identity, family, and the strange ways we hold ourselves together.
There is no guidebook for saying hello to your mother for the first time while she’s dying.
Glue explores a life shaped by family secrets, a devastating stroke, discovering biological parents, becoming a hate-crime witness, and learning that humour can exist alongside profound grief. Blending memoir with metafiction, it asks whether absurdity is sometimes the only thing strong enough to hold a life together.
Words + Big Days + Art/Photo + Travel + More Art/Photos + Clickbait + What's on Page 2 + Music Bullpen
"Your review style scratches my brain perfectly."
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April 1 (6:07 AM) = 54,615 Followers
Who Is Lindsay Wincherauk — and Why I’m Writing
Lindsay Wincherauk is a Vancouver-based writer and former journalist whose work explores presence, judgment, and the human cost of institutional systems. An avid observer of the human condition, his writing is driven by critical thought—something he considers both a burden and a legacy.
He has written more than twenty completed manuscripts spanning genres, including literary fiction, psychological thrillers, meta-memoir, social commentary, and experimental narrative. His work resists easy classification, blending lived experience with cultural analysis, dark humour, and formal risk. Across projects, his central concern remains the same: How people navigate systems that are structurally indifferent to human complexity.
Over the course of his adult life, Wincherauk has organized dozens of gatherings and public events, from large-scale community celebrations and athletic tournaments to intimate dinners, comedy nights and storytelling performances. He has spoken publicly against violence, worked closely with injured workers, and served as a key witness in a hate crime after helping de-escalate a dangerous situation.
In recent years, his writing has focused on what happens when human judgment becomes a liability inside modern corporate systems—particularly the quiet emotional, ethical, and existential costs borne by individuals when institutions prioritize compliance, metrics, and risk management over care. His ongoing op-ed series documents these realities not to perform outrage, but to establish a record—and where possible, to elicit change.
Wincherauk is also a one-eyed, blind, national-championship quarterback and hall of famer (three halls), an experience that shaped his understanding of discipline, resilience, connection, and adaptation. He continues to write relentlessly, committed to leaving behind a body of work that bears witness to the cost of critical thinking in a world that often punishes it.
In a time that can feel disorientating and unstable, Wincherauk’s work insists on the necessity of empathy, compassion, kindness, and ongoing commitment to understanding—both of others and the systems we inhabit.
Lindsay Wincherauk is a Vancouver-based writer and former journalist whose work explores presence, judgment, and the human cost of institutional systems. An avid observer of the human condition, his writing is driven by critical thought—something he considers both a burden and a legacy.
He has written more than twenty completed manuscripts spanning genres, including literary fiction, psychological thrillers, meta-memoir, social commentary, and experimental narrative. His work resists easy classification, blending lived experience with cultural analysis, dark humour, and formal risk. Across projects, his central concern remains the same: How people navigate systems that are structurally indifferent to human complexity.
Over the course of his adult life, Wincherauk has organized dozens of gatherings and public events, from large-scale community celebrations and athletic tournaments to intimate dinners, comedy nights and storytelling performances. He has spoken publicly against violence, worked closely with injured workers, and served as a key witness in a hate crime after helping de-escalate a dangerous situation.
In recent years, his writing has focused on what happens when human judgment becomes a liability inside modern corporate systems—particularly the quiet emotional, ethical, and existential costs borne by individuals when institutions prioritize compliance, metrics, and risk management over care. His ongoing op-ed series documents these realities not to perform outrage, but to establish a record—and where possible, to elicit change.
Wincherauk is also a one-eyed, blind, national-championship quarterback and hall of famer (three halls), an experience that shaped his understanding of discipline, resilience, connection, and adaptation. He continues to write relentlessly, committed to leaving behind a body of work that bears witness to the cost of critical thinking in a world that often punishes it.
In a time that can feel disorientating and unstable, Wincherauk’s work insists on the necessity of empathy, compassion, kindness, and ongoing commitment to understanding—both of others and the systems we inhabit.
Lindsay Wincherauk is a Vancouver-based author with twenty-five completed manuscripts spanning literary fiction, psychological thrillers, and genre-defying meta-memoir. His widely followed Book Thoughts series — now approaching 500 entries — is respected by publishers, agents, and authors for its rare ability to reach the heart and marrow of a book, illuminating both craft and cultural relevance. He has also built a substantial online readership, cultivating an engaged community of more than 50,000 Instagram followers who look to him for thoughtful literary insight and cultural commentary.
A former Op-Ed writer for a major newspaper, Wincherauk brings a clear, disciplined voice to complex social issues. After being terminated from a $91-billion corporation following a non-violent de-escalation of a safety incident involving a repeat offender, he began speaking publicly about ageism, workplace precarity, and the vulnerabilities facing older employees in modern corporate structures.
His advocacy is not rooted in resentment, but in reform.
Wincherauk believes corporations are at a crossroads — balancing human connection, technological acceleration, and shareholder pressure while safeguarding the dignity of their workforce. He advocates for practical, forward-thinking policies that protect employees of all ages, particularly those at risk of being overlooked in rapidly evolving workplaces.
He is available to collaborate with corporations, including Starbucks, in a consulting capacity to help develop employment practices that reflect changing demographics, strengthen internal culture, and position companies as leaders in ethical, future-focused employment. He is also available to speak with companies and media about building a thriving, fair, and sustainable future for both corporations and employees.
Not bitter. Not vengeful. Committed to meaningful progress.
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Updated: February, 26, 2026
A former Op-Ed writer for a major newspaper, Wincherauk brings a clear, disciplined voice to complex social issues. After being terminated from a $91-billion corporation following a non-violent de-escalation of a safety incident involving a repeat offender, he began speaking publicly about ageism, workplace precarity, and the vulnerabilities facing older employees in modern corporate structures.
His advocacy is not rooted in resentment, but in reform.
Wincherauk believes corporations are at a crossroads — balancing human connection, technological acceleration, and shareholder pressure while safeguarding the dignity of their workforce. He advocates for practical, forward-thinking policies that protect employees of all ages, particularly those at risk of being overlooked in rapidly evolving workplaces.
He is available to collaborate with corporations, including Starbucks, in a consulting capacity to help develop employment practices that reflect changing demographics, strengthen internal culture, and position companies as leaders in ethical, future-focused employment. He is also available to speak with companies and media about building a thriving, fair, and sustainable future for both corporations and employees.
Not bitter. Not vengeful. Committed to meaningful progress.
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Updated: February, 26, 2026
Here is my Instagram post, which gained over 18.6 million views.
https://www.instagram.com/insights/media/3688160225476754494/ Copy and Paste.
https://www.instagram.com/insights/media/3688160225476754494/ Copy and Paste.
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Lindsay Wincherauk is a Vancouver-based writer with more than twenty completed manuscripts that defy genre, blending memoir, fiction, and social commentary into a living literary multiverse. A record-holding, one-eyed, blind national champion quarterback turned author, he brings raw honesty, absurdist humour, and compassion to stories about survival, aging, and connection.
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Whiteness: Lindsay Wincherauk
What happens when the default isn’t questioned? Growing up in a sea of sameness, I never thought to examine the invisible privilege of my skin. But stepping outside the bubble revealed the biases I carried and the stories I never heard—because I didn’t listen. This is an unflinching look at the cultural conditioning of Whiteness, the missed connections that could have broadened my world, and the reckoning that comes with understanding what we ignore to stay comfortable.
Read the OPED below:
What happens when the default isn’t questioned? Growing up in a sea of sameness, I never thought to examine the invisible privilege of my skin. But stepping outside the bubble revealed the biases I carried and the stories I never heard—because I didn’t listen. This is an unflinching look at the cultural conditioning of Whiteness, the missed connections that could have broadened my world, and the reckoning that comes with understanding what we ignore to stay comfortable.
Read the OPED below:
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Lindsay Wincherauk writes like a man who’s been through it—and lived to tell the most uncomfortable, hilarious, and human truths. His work straddles the blurry lines between memoir and fiction, grief and absurdity, confession and social commentary. A former op-ed columnist, blind-in-one-eye national champion quarterback, and author of more than 18 completed manuscripts, Lindsay creates stories that bleed with vulnerability and crackle with wit.
Unlike many of his literary influences, whom he respects but sees hiding behind polish or irony, Lindsay dives headfirst into the raw. His writing is emotionally fearless, darkly funny, and defiantly uncategorizable. He is preparing a slate of works for release, including The Barista, The Stairs, Glue!, and his experimental tour-de-force, E.X.P.E.R.I.M.E.N.T.A.L.
He lives, writes, and keeps his heart open in Vancouver.
Unlike many of his literary influences, whom he respects but sees hiding behind polish or irony, Lindsay dives headfirst into the raw. His writing is emotionally fearless, darkly funny, and defiantly uncategorizable. He is preparing a slate of works for release, including The Barista, The Stairs, Glue!, and his experimental tour-de-force, E.X.P.E.R.I.M.E.N.T.A.L.
He lives, writes, and keeps his heart open in Vancouver.
- The Barista (Literary Fiction / Social Commentary)
- Abe (Psychological Thriller / AI Identity Exploration)
- Glue! (Genre-Defying Meta Memoir)
- Humans’ Bistro (Psychological Thriller)
- The Stairs (Psychological Thriller)
- Sparkly Pingle Ball: Season 1 (Absurdist Fiction / Dark Humour / Satirical Episodic Narrative)
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Day # = 212
Date = July 31
Workout # = 136
Treadmill Time = 12 Minutes
Start Weight = 400 lbs
Treadmill Speed = 4.0 mph
Total Calories Burned = 114,459
June Miles = 26.03
June Calories = 12,803
Workouts Left (to reach yearly goal) = 49
Date = July 31
Workout # = 136
Treadmill Time = 12 Minutes
Start Weight = 400 lbs
Treadmill Speed = 4.0 mph
Total Calories Burned = 114,459
June Miles = 26.03
June Calories = 12,803
Workouts Left (to reach yearly goal) = 49
Strength
April 29 Bench Press = 260 x 5
Benching 260 pounds for five repetitions puts you well into the "Advanced" to "Elite" strength categories for your age.
P-ups = 77
Heart Muscle
Record Calories = 1,158 in 41 minutes (Feb 22 - 2026)
Record Miles = 2.57 in 40 minutes (Feb 25 - 2026)
Most Steps Day = 50,572 - 19/July/2022 - (25.04 miles)
Most Steps Month = 1,243.220 - 19/July/2022 (624.61 miles)
Most Steps Year = 8,141,057 - (3,997.69 miles) (2023)
[average 22.204.27 steps per day, and 10.95 miles per day]
Record Seawall Lap Equivalent = 719.11 (2023)
20 Minute Records @ Fitness Asylum
900 Calories (May 15 - 2026)
2.09 Miles (May 12, 2026)
19 Minute Records @ Fitness Asylum
870 Calories (June 11, 2026)
1.80 Miles (June 11, 2026)
12 Minute Records @ Fitness Asylum
TBD
TBD
Pulse Low/High
(In the Last Year)
Lowest Pulse = 36 (December - 2025)
Highest Pulse = 90 (June - 2025)
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Music Bullpen
179 Songs in Waiting
(59 x 3) + 2
(59 x 3) + 2
Write. Read. Sing. Dance. Be Kind.
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