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• on thinking
  Thinking should be hard. Selecting the right words, translating the image in your head to the page, finding a way to describe something you experienced, those should be activities that challenge you. Every time you are forced by circumstance to sort through the pile of words in your head to explain a thought, you are… Read more: on thinking
• things i love: fall
  Do you know the way fall smells? The heat of summer sun baking the earliest hints of decay, warm fallen leaves. There is something to the chill in the breeze as night begins its solemn march back across the clock, taking more and more of the day’s busy hours. Inverse of spring, the end of… Read more: things i love: fall
• not precious
  Whoops, I haven’t posted anything lately. I got too precious with my words again. There are a lot of things that I get precious about, physical and ephemeral. Words aren’t delicate; they’re staunch, sturdy things that bend and twist but don’t break. There is no debt of words, they are not finite, they do not… Read more: not precious
• 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

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