Recently on social media, I teased some folks with my (now longstanding) idea for a reverse tentacle rape erotic romance. On a whim I checked my frags file to find that I had NOT recorded it […]
Category: Thought
The U.S. is an Unfinished Book: Three and a Half Stars
The United States gets a lot of bad press around the world — not without reason. Still, I often tell people I’m proud to be American, although that wasn’t always so. For most of my […]
The Only Writing Advice
If you’re learning brain surgery, it’s probably a good idea to practice before diving right in. Same goes for auto repair. You don’t want to be hearing later about how you installed those brakes wrong. But writing isn’t brain […]
Thoughts on cake after a month in Japan
i lost seven pounds in japan, proving yet again that exercise is necessary but not sufficient for weight loss. for those who don’t know, for nearly six months prior to my departure, i was doing […]
The Nefarious
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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
