In which I proceed to talk about various things that are boring to most people but are endlessly fascinating to me.

I haven’t written in here much. I’ve been doing the Twitter thing instead (follow me on Twitter here), short burts of 140 characters more appropriate to my mood lately, which has been good and generally…

I haven’t written in here in a while, but in general, things are much better, and moving forward in a way that feels natural and right for the first time in a long time. But I wanted to talk a…

Interesting:

Nahvalr, “s/t”, 2008.

Forgotten Tomb, “Springtime Depression”, 2003.

We’ve gotten a lot of positive comments on the Nahvalr artwork, which I designed and am fairly proud of (scary house on the outside, scary person harvesting poppies on the inside,…

Recent writings from around the internet, as I drown myself in the cold, hard light of reason.

From a vegan/vegetarian mailing list, to which I belong. The following email came in last night:

The title of this story is “Violent Surfers Shred Paps Over Maconaughey”. Trust me, you don’t have to read it, or even go there. Let me sum it up: Paparazzi were photographing Matthew Maconaughey surfing. A crowd of surfer…

It’s time for more Intellectual Adventurism. Today’s topic: Suleyman The Magnificent.

Suleyman was the reigning monarch of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566.

 Suleyman was the kind of ruler we have trouble conceiving of today: a polymath, he…