I first encountered the work of Patrick Schneeweis - "Pat the Bunny" - in college. This was in about 2008 or so, and I had a burned CDR of the Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains side of "Love Songs for the Apocalypse." I don'

I lived from Portland between 2011 and 2015. The further away we get from it, the more this time period becomes somewhat mythical to me. I'm sure this happens to all of us for certain periods of our life - childhood, adolescence, and for me, most definitely my

Here is a song I wrote about witches. Here are the lyrics: I light the candles cast an upright pentagram tonight might summon something just because I can I've got my athame make a circle out of salt might need protection if anything goes wrong pay attention to

In 2012 Roger Ebert somewhat infamously said that video games were not art - in fact, could never be art. In some ways I am sympathetic to this idea, though at this point it seems blatantly wrong - emotionally evocative and thematically rich stories being communicated through visuals, words, and

I did not like Oklahoma at first. I moved here for my girlfriend's job - from Ohio - though before that I had always imagined that I might find my way back to Portland someday. Moving to Oklahoma felt like saying goodbye to that dream, committing fully to

When I was first thinking of ideas for this blog, I thought I’d do a monthly news round up. I used to like to write about the news sometimes; you know, I’d make some jokes, and then do a little pontificatin' about what I thought was going

I thought it would be fun to post a video or some other "non writing" blog post for the fourth post of every month (only 4 blog posts a month so next week is off for me! So leave me alone you cheap bastards.) This month it'

Sublime were one of the first bands I ever really loved. I had gotten into Green Day just a few years before, but I think I found their lyrics a little hard to parse sometimes. This seems kind of funny now: "when masturbation's lost its fun you&

I used to drink a lot of Four Lokos. Not like an alcoholic amount, but it was a fairly regular party staple for me for awhile. Most of this was after the “classic” formula was outlawed; I only had the caffeinated kind a few times. The first time, I made

I thought it would be "fun" to do a news round up every month or so, but I realize that a lot of things have happened since the last time I had a blog (8 years ago), so I thought I'd go through some of the

I used to have a blog. It was called Every Superhero Fighting, and it was on Tumblr, and I think people liked it. I’d post random shit in it, musings on the politics of the day, goofy parody stories, a few pieces of travel writing. Every year I'