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(Experimental Essay): Privilege of the Witness in Narratology

Sometimes, from my stream of consciousness, an idea will roil up from the depths that compels me to jot it down, usually in a half-formed iPhone Note that I won’t revisit for stretches at a time. Once I do, I usually discover that it has either a) expired in relevance, or b) incubated some insight,…

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Poem: untitled

gust catches my tongue  like tales tied in yarns yet strung or parable naught begun it warns be strong like trees like song stretched on intervals of embarrassed temporariness lo, our emporium of meanings a banquet of searching a furtive yearning while over the years turning pages at a pace hither adhered my soul turns…

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Short Essay: “No-Reason Rationality”

“No-reason rationality” is not the same as irrationality, which is insanity. Why? No reason. See? Because there’s no reason. That’s the reason. To elaborate, when something arbitrary or spontaneous occurs, one of two reactions by the mind may follow: The first is to answer the question, “what reason did x occur?,” with the statement, “no…

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Album Roundup 2024

Whatup, readers! My birthday is here (woohoo), and as eager as I am to receive prizes for turning 26 (independently insured, be assured), I also feel compelled to look back on the many gifts my year of jubilee has brought me in the form of albums—new listening experiences from artists that I love or didn’t…

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