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Which is to say, that there is no single magic bullet that will end all cancer. This is because of what cancer is — a nature often obscured by the language of treatments and punchy catchphrases and political platforms of “advancing a cure” — but the nature of cancer is that of an animal outside…
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This has been on my mind for weeks now, this nonstop frustration over how much time I have to do things that feed my soul. I have a lot of hobbies, and I’ll try out a new one at the drop of a hat. I’ve got several that I’m very interested in, but simply have…
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Far from the paintings in gilded frames of the Museum of Modern Art and the photographic artifice of the Museum of Illusions, Convergence Station stands as a white monolith between two highway overpasses. I can rave about it all I want — you’ve heard the reviews yourself. The immersive experience, the winding tunnels and secret…
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I get the marketing appeal of compressing yourself into a single concept. It makes your self presentation easy, prompts you to lean on whatever one attribute you’ve reduced yourself to. It’s like a pocket resume: here’s me. Here’s all you need to know. As a writer, though, I recoil from that. I can certainly say…
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It’s 2012, and I’m in a paint-splattered garden level classroom that feels like the caves of Lascaux. Our old art teacher just retired, and gone were the days of freeform projects and self-directed art. Our new art teacher insisted, instead, on actually teaching about art, our projects interspersed with lectures on art concepts and styles…
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One piece of advice I saw on the internet years ago changed my life. It goes a little something like this: “If you hate everyone, eat something. If you think everyone hates you, take a nap. And remember, nothing you think about yourself after 9pm is true.” Its sound advice. There’s very little a nap…
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The word superstition comes from the latin word superstitio meaning “standing over” ie. that a superstition is a belief that stands over or outside of the logical standards of a time. A large part of the way we interpret this word today comes down to Christian thinkers, who used the word superstition to categorize small…
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I’ve given this question an enormous amount of thought over the years, and as time’s gone on the answer’s changed a bit. Mostly because I learn about new animals, or encounter new people, or develop new traits, or encounter a furry in the wild in such an incredibly made fursuit that it makes me want…
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Today, I woke up at 1:10 PM. Left to my own devices, I consistently sleep until 11. Give me a late night, and we can push that time forward to noon. Not later, though, so seeing the afternoon glaring at me through my phone screen threw me for a loop. It took me an hour…
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I have a job that would make the vast majority of the population balk. The less sturdy among us may faint. Even within my own workplace, common occurrences become sources of trauma for individuals of other departments. Because darkest gods forbid someone with a weak stomach walk in while I’ve got a human leg on…
from the pen of icarus blake 