I’ve been doodling these little characterizations of how people perceive their political opposites, and what it al looks like to me. Sometimes the perceptions are understandable, given social media hysterics. If you’re bothered by what’s looking back at you in the mirror, though, don’t get mad at the mirror. Continue reading What people think of each other
I wrote this story in my twenties, sometime in the early 2000s. I didn’t write much at the time, but occasionally a story would pop out of me, and this one of those stories. I found it on an old flash drive this morning. “Christ, what am I doing here?” I ask myself for the umpteenth time today. Standing somewhere in the middle of the … Continue reading Payouts
Decades ago I read about the Carrington Event, a solar storm that decimated telegraph systems in 1859. What if that happened today? I wondered. Nobody seemed to be talking about it. Yesterday, I started thinking about it out of the blue and Googled it because I experienced a sudden “bad feeling” about it. Turns out, people besides scientists are talking about it. It’s been picked … Continue reading Still “f*cking love science?”
I’ve noticed a trend: A ton of major entertainment events were scheduled at the very beginning of the Delta surge, a time when the predominant narrative was that it was more dangerous than ever to go places and enjoy life. Weeks later, they started cancelling them. Sure, makes sense. They didn’t know. This stuff had been in the works for months, most likely. I’ll certainly … Continue reading The new “cancel culture“
I read every license plate I see and turn it into an acronym, whether I want to or not. Vanity plates, then, which already mean something, are especially noticeable, and here are some that I’ve taken pics of: Continue reading Vanity Plates
I’m eighteen chapters deep into book IV of the Effugium series. It’s called Exordium. It takes place several hundred years after the events of Exitium, the third book of the Kryuss Trilogy, and the third book of the Effugium series as a whole. Exordium is set on the Galenian colony world of Baltu, which is occupied entirely by fanatical religious extremists. Followers of the Consilium, … Continue reading Exordium
They say kids are cruel, and it’s true. So are adults, though—they’ve simply learned how to compartmentalize their sadistic tendencies. A child will be indiscriminately cruel while a seemingly “nice” adult will reserve his or her cruelty for those they’ve decided are beneath them. They justify it by convincing themselves that the victims of their sadism are deserving of it. The nicest person you know, … Continue reading Cruel World
Ever since the pandemic began, I’ve been compiling an extreme metal Spotify playlist comprised of songs about disease, plagues, mass death, etc. Thrash, death, black, grind, doom—all of these sub-genres are represented. Instead of worrying about all the shit going on now, sometimes I just have to stop giving a fuck and joyfully bang my head to the sickness and brutality of life. Continue reading Soundtrack to the Apocalypse
