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The Black City
Let's just dust this off and... oh, it's a blog! Fancy that.
I've finished a... story, kind of. Honestly it's more of a writing exercise and less of an actual story, a kind of explorer's log of a fantasy city. It was supposed to be something light and easy to get me writing again. I started it ten months ago, and just finished it. (Not that it ( Read more... ) -
A Christmas Miracle!
So I had this idea germinating in my head for a while, but Jesus brought my family a terrible housefire for Christmas, probably in retribution for my disbelieving in him (you'd think he could find a way to not drag my generally faithful family into this). But even divine wrath can't keep me down! So here's a little something for the Christmas ( Read more... ) -
Evolution, Science, and Belief
OK, I want to talk a little bit about science and, speficially, about evolution. There's quite a bit of controversy today about whether or not to teach the theory of evolution in science classrooms, and whether or not to give equal footing to alternative theories like Intelligent Design. There is so much wrong with this that I don't know where to ( Read more... ) -
Shopping in a Dying World
I love Classical Japanese aesthetics. Let's just get that out of the way first. Traditional Aesthetics like Wabi-Sabi and especially Mono no Aware float my boat in a major way. And as a measure of personal relation to a piece of art, the only thing that can beat the power of strongly resonating aesthetics is the Depiction of Personal Experience ( Read more... ) -
The Age of Dreams
Ed. Note: Originally written June 18, 2006, and posted in my original Livejournal.
I had a thought.
My twenty-first birthday is in one week. Twenty-one years... it's not that many in any cosmic scale, but no human is much in any cosmic scale. On the relative scale, though, it's one-fourth of my life, perhaps one-fifth. And yet, I'm an adult. As long ( Read more... ) -
懐かしい
The word above reads "Natsukashii". It's an adjective, an expression that details a specific kind of feeling of fond remembrance. Walking past a playground and remembering the days you played there as a child, walking into a store and smelling the air conditioning and remembering your freshman year dorm, a song that played on the radio on the bus ( Read more... ) -
Sex and Violence
When people talk about censorship, they usually talk about the two great offenders: Sex and Violence. The phrase you've heard a million times to describe the utter moral decrepitude of, for one instance, television these days or Hollywood or Youth! Too much sex and too much violence. But why are people so quick to suppress these things? Why do ( Read more... ) -
I am an atheist.
Yes, I am an atheist. I don't know any of you who would find this info surprising, but this isn't necessarily a coming-out or any such thing. After all, anyone who had the slightest curiosity could have asked me and I would have told them for a stretch of years. But I figure I want to write about this a bit ( Read more... )