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Five-Pronged Eyes Poem
My Five-Pronged Eyes poem is from my poetry podcast. I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote between 2005 and 2017. Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry, click here.
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Cynic Quote
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” — Oscar Wilde
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Maps of Meaning Lecture Series
HUGE thanks to Dr. Cirilla for introducing me to Dr. Jordan Peterson. I highly recommend folks take the time to sift through the Maps of Meaning lecture series by Dr. Peterson — it singly handedly redeemed the entire field of psychology and psychiatry from the baggage of my youth:
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Sense of Wonder : Awaken and Enliven
As I’ve now said in Art and Fear, in Carefree Art, and in The Hipster Fallacies (and as was implied in the quote on Science and Agnosticism) it is the job of the artist to awaken the sense of wonder in the world, to use their imagination as the organ of meaning and connect the…
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Sound of Silence : Doors of Stone Prep
Apologies for delaying this reread of Kingkiller since OCTOBER. Still anxious to get it all read in preparation for whenever Doors of Stone comes out in the distant future (don’t want my intentions to get misconstrued again). But I’m mainly anxious to get it reread because rereading books we love is fun. To explain the delay:…
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Pre Production Stages — our Alaska Documentary
Been meaning to write this pre production post for about five months, but I’ve been absolutely slammed. Apologies aside: as those of you who subscribe to the updates know, I’m in the thick of pre production for a documentary which — if funded — will start in Alaska and likely involve other interesting places around…
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Did Christopher Nolan Plant Corn? Yes. And Sold It.
Did Christopher Nolan plant corn for interstellar? Yes. And then he sold it to fund the film, but it was a HUGE gamble. On Cooper’s farm — the place where the cornfield chase of interstellar was shot — they did it with mountains in Alberta where corn doesn’t grow. Nolan planted 500 acres of corn, a…
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Tehlu’s Wheel
I want to take a moment in the midst of this reread to point out that Tehlu’s wheel is an ancient symbol found on Mohenjo-Daro seals around 3000 B.C.E. It’s a sun symbol — a sun wheel to be precise. The Gauls used the sun wheel as a sort of good amulet. As a Celtic tribe,…
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Flying Tips and Future Planes
After selling both of our cars four years ago, Tara and I have flown a disproportionate amount compared to the rest of our lives since coming to New York — enough to offer some flying tips. I can say, for starters, don’t fly United or American and, frankly, John Oliver was right to say that…
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A Defense of Boring Personalities
No boring subject exists, just bored people. Boring personalities tend to find the subjects they bore into quite fascinating, stimulating, and they usually emerge as experts in their field. Bored people are cool, but dilettantes. My bride’s mother used to tell her essentially that good girls should never be bored. At first blush, I hated…
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Social Media Break : Post Mortem on my Year Off Social Media
People have asked me how my yearlong social media break went. Great and terrible. It was terrible because I failed in my goal to write every one who signed up for handwritten letters. On the upside of that failure, I wrote dozens and dozens of folks. I think I’m up to fifty or something, so…