Publicity, Persona, and Identity

Everybody has an Internet persona. In fact, these days, it’s more than common for most people to have multiple Internet personas, only one of which might be called “real”. People create identities that are specific to platforms or their interests, and we barely...

Middle Class Coasting

In the past I always operated with the idea that if I do things well enough in the present moment, that if I am RIGHT and PROPER in my actions, then everything in the long term would sort itself out. I call this the Middle Class Coasting mindset. Financial crises were...

Finding Myself

[the following originated as a facebook post; I have expanded on it extensively here so it’s not the same text, but incorporates it and delves deeper into the idea.] I am so weary of cynicism. I get that it is my default, along with sarcasm, as a response to...

The Future of Grieving Futures

Back in 2010 or so, I wrote a book I call Grieving Futures detailing the slow collapse of my family and my emergence from that as an adult orphan. It’s a painful book and in retrospect I’d write it very differently, if I were writing it today. But it is...
Stranger Things, stranger theories

Stranger Things, stranger theories

[major spoilers for the TV show Stranger Things below. don’t say I didn’t warn you!] So okay, here’s my response to a lot of fan theories circulating. I have to admit I’m disappointed with the meta about this show — maybe I’m used...

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