GENERATE Magazine is now accepting orders for their first, limited edition issue. You will want to get this issue, as it contains an essay by myself that will surely be a collector’s item some day. Subscribing before the end of September will grant you a lower rate. For the one or two people who haven’t heard […]
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I am a card-carrying fantasy nerd. Nerds such as I were highly anxious when we heard that Peter Jackson was adapting J.R.R. Tolkien’s sacrosanct Lord of the Rings trilogy into movie form. The high praise given to Jackson’s adaptation from nerdy sources was largely due to relief that he hadn’t botched it like we’d feared. I […]
I desire light but sometimes I desire darkness more I am divided, torn asunder The devil on my shoulder is giving the angel ideas My narcissim imagines a titantic battle of good and evil within. Perhaps the proportions are more carnal than cosmic My heart is a fiery tempest and there’s too much gasoline around Jesus loves me this I know […]
I have occasionally been accused of being cynical, mostly by a bunch of jerks. I will readily confess that I have a tendency towards seeing what’s wrong instead of what’s right, and that the words coming out of my mouth are often called “pessimistic,” “negative,” and “gloomy”—especially by empty-headed optimists. I recognize that cynicism (or its […]
Big is bad, but small isn’t necessarily beautiful. It’s just that everywhere I look, I can’t see the end of what I’m seeing. Everything is too big and it should be smaller. Perhaps the easiest place to make this case is in national electoral politics, which we in Canada recently sleepwalked through (a blessed brevity compared […]
Valedictions are those little things that people put at the end of messages they’ve written, such as a letter (do these ever get written anymore?) or an email. I’m seized with a bizarre mixture of dread and apprehension every time I get to the valediction, often switching to something else entirely (such as writing this) so […]
