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• things i love: godzilla
  I love Big Lizards. Dragons, dinosaurs. Kaiju. I think it’s because nothing scares you when you’re that big. Nothing is a real threat when you’re 100 feet tall and weigh more than a house. More than an apartment building. You’re the biggest goddamn thing around and no one can tell you shit. You can trample… Read more: things i love: godzilla
• things i love: comic book day
  I got into this intellectual hole a little while ago where I was doing a lot of reading and writing about the history of Mormonism, Manifest Destiny, rugged individualism and how these shaped political attitudes in the American West. I bought an out of print copy of a good dissertation from the 1960s about the… Read more: things i love: comic book day
• sagebrush
  The hills where I grew up are on fire. It’s not such an unusual story in the West, certainly not now; some hills somewhere are always on fire. Chances are good they meant something to someone. But these are my hills, the ones I hiked with my parents, with my friends, by myself. I haven’t… Read more: sagebrush
• things i love: esoteric ebb
  It’s easy to talk about things I dislike, but it’s equally (more) important to talk about things I love. So welcome to Things I Love, reviews and meditations on all the good things keeping me going. Today’s thing I love is a video game, an RPG, and like all good RPGs it plays like someone… Read more: things i love: esoteric ebb
• no toasters here
  You won’t find any use of GenAI or agentic AI on this site. That’s deliberate: I write compulsively, as a coping mechanism, as a way to process my own thoughts. Letting some sycophantic computer program make words for me is antithetical to why I value writing in the first place. To be a writer, ultimately,… Read more: no toasters here

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