Posted on July 17, 2015
Insert coin to continue
Seven years. I’ve been plugging away at this blog for seven years and, for the most part, it’s been fruitless. Sure, it’s brought some work my way over the years – briefly, even a full time gig – but the law of diminishing returns kicked in a long time ago. I guess I just kept hoping I could power through it and eventually land on something that sticks. But I don’t think that’s ever going to happen. Read More
Posted on July 10, 2015
Furiously Unhappy
Depression lies.
That’s the takeaway line from supportive types on the Internet, and they’re usually right. Depression makes everything seem worse than it is, like when the house lights come up and you see who you’ve been dirty dancing with all night looks less like Patrick Swayze or Jennifer Grey and more like dear god, what is that thing. Or maybe you check the mirror, and that’s you. Either way, it’s kind of like that.
Except when it isn’t. Read More
Posted on June 19, 2015
Charleston and Pete
I don’t want to write about Charleston. There are plenty of other people out there who are – and I’ve said plenty myself on social media – but adding to the growing cacophony of blognoise in the face of such evil just isn’t my thing. Whenever tragedy strikes, I feel like a whole lot of people jump on it for the sake of getting their slice of the nation’s attention, and it all just feels too much like capitalizing on suffering for the sake of pageviews. Not gonna do it.
Not directly, anyway. Read More
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