Icky
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I find the pursuit of immortality overrated, given those who seek it often do so at the cost of quality of life, of their own humanity, of the community around them. To choose immortality (or functional immortality ie. you live a long long long time and only die if something kills you) is to choose…
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Today I’m going to visit a childhood friend for the New Year. She flew from Texas to spend the holidays with her family. When we were 10, we lived four blocks away from each other. I pretty much lived in her basement bedroom, spending our middle and high school years watching anime and developing interwoven…
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Working through the editing process brings some of the more esoteric practices of creation into focus. One of those is critique. The editing process is a self-critique of your own work, a preparation for showing it to the wider world in an attempt to share your own vision. Presenting your work to the world is…
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First thing in the morning, I sit down at my desk. It’s sturdy — used by my grandfather, then by my mother, then lugged around from apartment to apartment by me. The light streams in through the window, casting rainbows on the floor as it catches on the prisms hung on the windowframe. The forest…
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The autumn warmth of December ended today along the Front Range of the Rockies, heralding deep winter with gusting winds pressing between layers of wool and fleece. I woke up cold and tired, longing for the long days of summer when 7:00 is not a dark dawn but a dancing stream of sunlight on the…
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I was ten years old. Tired, with a plate of dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets on the plate in front of me in a bar after four days of camping in the woods. The TV showed a newscast, an aerial shot of a small boat on the water and a headline: “Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter, Dead at…
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Looking at the post history of my blog, it may come as no surprise that the major skill I’ve been developing these past couple months is just. Social media. Communication with the outside world. This isn’t something that comes naturally to me, most accounts I have are abandoned promptly after about a week of activity. …
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If I could, I’d take myself back through time and space and land somewhere around 1100 AD near modern day St. Clair county, Illinois where the ancient city of Cahokia bustled at the peak of it’s power with a population between 10,200 and 15,300. Today, all that remains of the largest metropolis of the Mississippian…
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It only takes a cursory glance at my blog to know that I have a special affinity for dogs. Their joint history with humans, the dichotomy of fear and love that can make a dog a protector or violent monster, the wolf just beneath the surface. They are both the family dog chasing a would-be…
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It should come as a surprise to no one that I love Godzilla, and though my knowledge of the franchise is slimmer than that of your average superfan I still ran to the theaters as soon as I realized that a new Japanese rendition of Godzilla was out. I was late to the punch —…
