the latin word nefas is a combination of the word ne, meaning “not,” and the word fas, which transliterates as “right,” but that’s not exactly right. it was more than that, something closer to dao, although romans were not […]
Author: R W
Rick Wayne is a cretinous mass who's dissected a cadaver, climbed the Great Wall, jumped from an airplane, designed sampling systems, swam naked in the Mediterranean, and felt the blast of a terrorist's bomb, although not in that order. When he's not vomiting words, he's planning his next adventure.
He can be found at RickWayne.com.
(Curiosity) The Art of the Collage: Visions of Excess
If you don’t follow the art world, which is its own thing separate from the art itself, you may not know that the collage, once the pinnacle of fourth-grade art class, has made something of […]
(Curiosity) The Rationality of Disenfranchised Non-Voting
In college, I took a poli-sci class on the American Presidency. One of the things we learned was that the president’s party tends to lose seats at midterm elections and that this effect is often […]
(Curiosity) The Myth of the Batman, or Why I Love Reboots
Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns casts a long shadow over the Batman mythos. Not only is it considered paradigmatic for the character, it’s also considered part of the larger comic book canon. I very […]
Story Time With Uncle Ricky (NSFW)
I was a late bloomer. Wait. Backup. I was at a Breeders concert my freshman year of college. I was not old enough to drink, which the state of Oklahoma takes very seriously. (The entire […]
The Weight of 10,000 Rainbows: Thoughts on Turning 40
We each know more than we can say. There is a certain elusive “what it’s like”-ness to human experience that is nearly impossible to utter. After all, our consciousness, while not ephemeral, isn’t exactly tangible […]
IT’S FINALLY HERE! Fantasmagoria is Released!
“Brief, violent, and unpredictable, yet thrilling to be in the middle of.” -goodreads reviewer A scoundrel with a secret seeks the key to escaping the end of the world. An exiled gunslinger, waiting to die, […]
