Stuff can be hard.

The greatest and most pernicious fallacy perpetrated upon society is the belief that life is somehow fair.  The idea that bad things happen to good people, the strong take while the weak are taken, and that the noble suffer while the wicked and manipulative profit is so cliche that these truths are written off as tired, meaningless axioms beneath a ( Read more... )

The thing you need to remember is that America is a big place. If one in every 50,000 nut-jobs manages to get a camera and a following, you still have quite a few high-profile nut-jobs. Likewise, it's easy to get the illusion of a high per-capita following when your low per-capita basket case fans still fill a large area when clustered ( Read more... )

It seems as though decades have passed since school began.  Time no longer has meaning to me, as hope of graduation or even ascension through the strange, abstract grades of Riverdale High have long since faded.  Though chronologically I know that many decades have come and gone since my arrival in this benighted place, those hideous automatons I ( Read more... )

My whole life, I've felt like I have been letting somebody down.  I have put this on many people over the years, many of which probably weren't deserving of it.  While I have sometimes tried to work towards atoning for this vague sense of failed accomplishment, I have in fact spent a great deal of time rebelling and hiding out from what, in my mind ( Read more... )

Come on people.  Surely some of you have something more substantial to say then 420 characters.  Now I am a frequent abuser of Facebook, as any of you who read this certainly already know.  I enjoy its recurrent, headline based nature and its capacity for the exchange of quick witticisms, but come on.  How much can you convey in a stunted paragraph ( Read more... )

Those of you who are friends with Elliott on facebook may have read this already.  I just wanted to post it for posterity; partially to show off the awfulness of it and partially to show you that I have profound problems.  After Devan/Elliot's prompt, a link to a Craig'slist request for a script regarding, "female cyber assassins," I wrote this for ( Read more... )

Nothing revitalizes a washed out music career like the announcement of alternate sexual preferences. "Focus groups told me that my record career might be pertinent again if I announced myself to a new demographic." Now, regarding an actual quote: "Today is my day, this is my time, and this is my moment." Really? I could have sworn that, ( Read more... )

I am working at Comic Quest again.  This feels like settling, but I don't think it is.  I'm still going to school to learn a trade, so technically I'm still doing more then I was doing ( Read more... )

Hunger.  That's the key.  One must have a desire for something, and be working towards it.  It doesn't even matter if you get it, so long as you do your damnedest.  Suddenly I am, once again, ravenous.