In my experience as a growing human being, and in my interactions with other people in that time, I think I've come to realize one of the little discussed, universal difficulties of life: the difficulty of determining when the choices we make that make us feel safe can be unhealthy, unfair, and harmful in the … Continue reading Safe Choices, Healthy Choices
Month: June 2017
Manifestophilis (Interviews With the Devil): Postmodernism, Memes, Politics
The Devil: Hell is bureaucratic by nature. It’s all layers and laws, everything stacks on top of itself. Everything is infrastructure. This was all made for me, so what do you expect that I hate bureaucracy? Bureaucracy was made to torture me. Now that I’m on Earth it’s followed me: everywhere I go I must fight … Continue reading Manifestophilis (Interviews With the Devil): Postmodernism, Memes, Politics
Poetry Sample #3: “Just Poetry”
June 2. 2017: Just Poetry My father said “I don’t get it” once, after a reading He was referring to poetry, naturally. Not mine just poetry. It is a valid complaint: these fragments can slip through your fingers. I didn’t get it either, and I don’t think I have it. It takes more than breadcrumbs … Continue reading Poetry Sample #3: “Just Poetry”
Poetry Sample #2: “I Am Too,” “Dream 10”
May 26. 2017: I Am Too Friends asked what’s wrong with me And I said “too much to say" And it is, it’s always too much or too little Saying too much Silent too much Caring too much Knowing too much Too cynical about “people" Too naive about people I can’t stand on a razor’s … Continue reading Poetry Sample #2: “I Am Too,” “Dream 10”
Poetry Sample #1: “The Night Script,” “Tell Me Love,” “Transition”
As part of the release of All the Mediocre Tidbits of Life, I will be sharing some selections in a short series of posts. For this first selection I am sharing, not one, not two, but three poems from the book! I hope you enjoy them and they whet your appetite for more! March 3. … Continue reading Poetry Sample #1: “The Night Script,” “Tell Me Love,” “Transition”
New Book of Poetry: “All the Mediocre Tidbits of Life”
Well, after the long run of my Academic Abominations (and I can't guarantee that there wont be more in the future), I am happy to announce another self-published book of poetry available on Lulu: All the Mediocre Tidbits of Life is a collection of over a hundred poems and a handful of accompanying sketches composed … Continue reading New Book of Poetry: “All the Mediocre Tidbits of Life”
Academic Abominations (Or: Poor Papers From College) #6: “Beauty is in the Mind of the Beholder”
Beauty is in the Mind of the Beholder: Beauty, Idealism, and Consumerism in Survival of the Prettiest, and Spent Beauty is all around us: it fills up screens and magazines; sells creams and lipstick and razors; we long to surround ourselves with it and long to have it in ourselves. We love it and we … Continue reading Academic Abominations (Or: Poor Papers From College) #6: “Beauty is in the Mind of the Beholder”
Academic Abominations (Or: Poor Papers from College) #5: The Homeric Epics and Evolutionary Psychology
Homer’s epic poems of the Iliad and the Odyssey remain seminal works in the western canon of literature, and are still being studied and adapted after over a thousand years of its composition. In Jonathan Gottschall’s The Rape of Troy and Brian Boyd’s On the Origin of Stories the Homeric epics are each reexamined within … Continue reading Academic Abominations (Or: Poor Papers from College) #5: The Homeric Epics and Evolutionary Psychology
Academic Abominations (Or: Poor Papers from College) #4: “The Face of Joan”
The Face of Joan: Balázs’s Theory in La Passion De Jeanne D’Arc Born in Hungary in 1884, Béla Balázs became one of the first filmmakers to delve into film theory, publishing works such as Visible Man, or Film Culture, The Spirit of Film, and Theory of Film. His work dissected the unique qualities of film, … Continue reading Academic Abominations (Or: Poor Papers from College) #4: “The Face of Joan”
Academic Abominations (Or: Poor Papers from College) #3: The (Re)birth of Cycles
The (Re)birth of Cycles: (Re)examining the quest of Transhumanism In recent years science has been put in the awkward position of explaining just how insignificant humanity is. Cosmology has revealed a vast, unknowable universe (and it’s quite possible there are others out of our reach) with Earth being nothing more than a speck of cosmic … Continue reading Academic Abominations (Or: Poor Papers from College) #3: The (Re)birth of Cycles
Pen and Screen 