Another year full of challenges, but my daughter survived.
A personal reflection on finding unexpected love and joy after embracing solitude, and the liberating effects of letting go of social media and embracing real connections.
Today is Bell Let's Talk Day, a day focused on mental health awareness. For the past few years, I have been using it to talk about a theme for the next year.
Another challenging year, but coming out stronger than in the past.
The SHIELD is probably one of the greatest shows on television right now, if not ever, and there's not much being said about it.
City of God is a film that I rented from [MovieLink.Com](http://www.movielink.com/) (which is a video rental site where you download movies directly to your ...
Recently, the charger for my laptop started to die on me. It wouldn’t hold a steady current that would allow my laptop to stay powered up – I knew I was going to have to get a new one before this happened because the cord from the charger to the laptop was mildly damaged. I bought a new one off of eBay which was a lot cheaper than getting it repaired through Dell, buying a new one through Dell or buying new through CompUSA or something. I’m happy that it’s up and running again, but the period wh
What separates an obsession from a necessity in someone's life?
A few months ago, I came across a website [http://www.changesurfer.com/eventhorizon/index.html]which expanded on the ideas found in the author’s bookCitizen Cyborg [http://changesurfer.com/citizencyborg.htm]. An off-shoot of this website is another website focused around the idea of transhumanism (transcending the human being through implants, cybernetics, genetic modification, etc). A part of this website is the Changesurfer radio shows, which doesn’t necessarily focus on the ideas of transhuma
Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if blogs and/or the media had existed 400+ years ago?
With a lack of something better to write about, thought I’d just share my thoughts on some new music I’ve been listening to lately. I’m a big fan of Pepsi and they’ve been having a promo with Apple to give away free Itunes with their bottled drinks. You’re odds are 1/3 in winning, so you can really add them up quickly if you drink Pepsi steadily. The past few days, I decide to actually check underneath the cap to see if I won anything, and I did. So I checked more bottles, and won
How can a simple thing, like a piece of art, be called abstract? Simple. Abstraction is merely a form of us seeing. It has nothing to do with what is being seen and how complex that image may be, but rather in how that form is being seen by the viewer. For some, a painting or dance piece could be called abstract because they are missing the underlying beauty that is simple in nature—i.e., lines of paint or the arcs of the body in space. Anything can be seen as abstract, and yet everything is s
Lately, I’ve been subjecting myself to a lot of different kinds of music to see what else is out there besides the usual rock radio crap and the same bouncy dance anthems. What I’ve been discovering is some pretty interesting work, some addicting stuff, some bizarre but good stuff, and then stuff that should be classified as garbage. But I have a hard time of labeling something garbage because someone did make an effort in creating that piece of “music.” It takes a lot of time to create somethi
Today, I was reading the Business section of Monday's NY Times (I was too ill to finish it last night) and came across several articles talking about the technology sector. I zeroed in on one article in particular. To sum up the article, it's about the ongoing battle between Sony and other media technology groups about the next format for movies and media. The secondary battle is about where the technology will be played, a television or on the computer. My take on it is this: why do we need an
As an artist, I find it hard to admit this, but I think art as we know it is dead. In the thousands of years of human history, art has always existed alongside such things as violence, sex, religion, consumption, etc. As we've evolved, art has become increasingly more important to us but the scale has tipped too far now. In the past where art was splendid, beautiful, and amazing, people have lost their appreciation for art. No longer will people see a painting by da Vinci and think of how wonde
Pre-face: Before setting up this blog, I had been writing at another site two-three years ago over at opendiary.com (it no longer exists now), and also on my...
Fellow neo-beatniks rise up out of the shadows in which you've been hiding now is the time to be loud and H---O---W---L into the cold dark nights and let you...
An urban-hermit. Seems simple enough, right? I suppose the OED would have a definition along the lines of, “A loner living in a city environment who tends not to go out at night.” I feel like I’m much more complicated than that. I hate stereotypes, and I often wonder how they ended up being created in the first place, but maybe I’ll leave that for another entry after this. First, my definition of what an urban hermit is, and this is solely based on who I am. To me, an urban hermit is, like I su
This world is such a bizarre place. It has come such a long way from its humble beginnings, if there ever was a beginning. The world changes just as fast as ...
