Addiction and family

I didn't think about it often. Maybe one reason was because I only knew one side of the family.

My uncle described himself as an alcoholic who hadn't had a drink in over 30 years. He was in one of those terrible relationships that everyone was amazed existed at all …

Epilogue

You looked at the news. All the same, always the same, but it made you feel good to see it.

Your monitor was beige and bulky, so you'd wrapped the back with a colorful cloth.

You reached into a black bag, not expecting it to be completely empty instead of just …

Buried Alive

I've been in here for three days. I've been conserving water but the bottles of urine are piling up. I've balled up every article of clothing and stacked them according to type. The room looks cleaner than it ever did when I went outside, but it still feels like it's …

Meanwhile

They sat next to each other in the fake leather chairs and waited for someone to pass by and choose a seat equidistant from them and anyone else.
"I was watching this show I like-"
"Which show?"
"Doesn't matter. Anyway, I was watching this show and I thought about …

The Doomsday Clock Has Been Set To Beer:30

Yes, scientists and experts across the free world have moved the time ahead of the infamous Doomsday clock, a metaphorical threat meter where midnight represents doomsday. The time now reads "Beer:30"

Beer:30 (and sometimes known as "Beer-o'clock," of course …

High-tech writer's block

I had two cups of coffee at the corner shop and couldn't stay focused on the book I was reading. I'd read it before, but I was sure it was the coffee that was inspiring me to intentionally read the paragraphs out of order.

I also hadn't been reading much …

We're all gonna die (really, we all could die)

So it's established that everything, even if it's just one part or just a phase of something greater, ends. We all understand this, and though we can debate about an after life and the supernatural, it's undisputed that we will die. Nothing new there, though this is …

Intrinsic value of the medium?

I had a blogger and now I have my own domain, with wordpress features I haven't figured out yet. I write often in my StumbleUpon blog, inspired by what I stumble on. I wish I hadn't written what I have on Facebook, which I can't seem to get rid of, I don't know how …

The best of the internet, the worst of the internet.

The internet is a tool consisting of tools, or maybe more like a neighborhood resource center for the world where you can check out every tool yet invented. Everything has its pros and cons and can be used for good or evil.
My favorite part of the internet is the pure …

Man-Boy May Be A Writer or Just a Smoker

Flipping through a forgotten Moleskein journal, he came across an undated page that threatened to destroy him with its lack of context.

"How To Be A Writer

Ask most people how to be a writer, and they will brush you off with advice that is safer than it sounds, that …

Nice template, nice paper

You know that feeling you get when some relative gives you a fancy journal for your birthday or christmas or because they saw it and thought of you or whatever?

Of course, "you" actually consist of a lot of people, so you might not have this experience, but it's …

Despotism is to Democracy as Machiavelli is to Ghandi

   Who are you? Who am I? We can at least know who we aren't. None of us are either Ghandi or Machiavelli, not even Ghandi or Machiavelli. We, as individuals, are all human. We may strive for a chosen ideal, but we can not completely escape our humanity, which holds …

domicile dreams

The first room had two beds. A living room with a small window into a kitchen, which had a stairwell into a basement which I knew to be the only exit. Walls lined with kitschy nicknacks, like mickey mouse clocks, commemorative plates, and shelves of miniature figurines …

Bringing civilization to the Western tragedy

The story is that a student once asked Ghandi what he thought about Western Civilization, to which he replied "I think it would be a very good idea."

Just as a modern American can be found sneering or laughing at the futility of "barbarian" tribes in such a …