Monthly Archives December 2009

Journal of a Part-Time Writer

TweetI’ve set out to do something special. Something memorable. Something timeless. I’ve set out to write a piece of classic literature. Someday to be published as a Penguin Classic, or better yet, a distinguished addition to the Modern Library. I suspect (but have no proof) that this is the difference between myself (up until now) [...]

Albums of 2009

TweetI didn’t listen to all that much new music this year — maybe about half of my music purchases were backfill for my collection, rounding out artists who I had most of their work, but not all. That said, there were a couple of albums that stood out for me this year. Most can be [...]

Embracing the Storm

TweetLong have I retreated before The tempest’s mighty wrath No matter how I twist and turn, I stay centered in its path Maybe my time at last has come; I soon may hear the call For my way is barred By an endless, sky-high wall… Flight’s End before me Surely sounds of Death follow behind [...]

Men of Snow/Turn to Stone.

I feel like standing barefoot on the iced sidewalk, my feet sticking to it’s surface. My flesh attached to something other then itself. My expanse of lonely skin.

on The Invisibles

Tweet“This is the comic I’ve wanted to write all my life–a comic about everything: action, philosophy, paranoia, sex, magic, biography, travel, drugs, religion, UFOs… you can make your own list. And when it reaches its conclusion, somewhere down the line, I promise to reveal who runs the world, why our lives are the way they [...]

Charlie

Charlie thought about running away, leaving everything behind.

South America, maybe Canada or Ireland, Charlie could disappear, fall off the grid, find an island somewhere and live like Les Stroud.

Review: Batman Arkham Asylum

Tweet Platform: X360, PS3, PC Developer: Rocksteady Studios Genre: Action Released: August 25, 2009 Putting aside Lego Batman, the Dark Knight hasn’t seen a successful video game adaptation in a long time. But the lack of successful Batman games hasn’t stopped their development by any means. Dating all the way back to 1986 a Batman [...]