Happy New Years from Hawaii!

It's been said that criminals and creative geniuses share at least one trait in common: they burn out young. Creative geniuses typically generate their masterpieces by the time they hit their 30s, or at least their masterpieces are inspired by their early years. Likewise, there aren't many geriatric criminals. Common intuition might assert that ( Read more... )

I continually find astounding the willingness of most people to pursue exactly the path that has been laid down for them, without question ( Read more... )

So, livejournal, quite a few things have changed since I last updated you. I'm not really entirely sure where to begin, so I'll begin with the big things ( Read more... )

As I adjust to getting back into the swing of things here on LJ, thought I'd post a quick video I threw together from a family trip in Greece, Italy, Sicily, Croatia and Turkey earlier this year. It's a bit tacky, but that's how family trips go, don't they?

Hope you enjoy :-)

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

So, it's been a while since I've checked livejournal. I forget who some of my friends listed here are -- some others haven't made a post all year. So I am in the process of purging my friend's list ( Read more... )

Is there anyone still out there?

I kind of miss livejournal. Other social media can be so empty in comparison. Considering a return, thought I'd give a shout in the dark.

For most intents and purposes, I've decided to abandon my livejournal as a writing medium. This probably doesn't come as a big surprise, since I've hardly used this thing in ages. But I guess now it's official. I'm still going to leave it up because I have a lot of friends on here who I still want to keep in touch with, and I'll be following all of ( Read more... )

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As many of you have undoubtedly noticed, I haven't been using my livejournal much these days. One of the reasons is that I've started other avenues for varieties of my writing. Most notably, I have just started a new blog, The Open Society, at http://bryannelson.wordpress.comIt's a progressive, informative and savvy political blog which you should ( Read more... )