Category: articles
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Against Video Game Voiceover and Film Voiceover
Some say that old habits die hard but the truth is that old conventions die harder. Voice over didn’t enter the film world as a new concept. Video game voiceover has roots in something else. Both come down to us from the days when people couldn’t afford to see sequential plays and so a narrator — often…
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Pane — from 58 poems written at 29
Light leaks in lifting the spirit Of this glass-surfaced glittering kitchen Table and my letters. To tend to many Things in thin-air — this is a way To illumine our love. For light, it shines On to it and up to it, undergirding Its place in our plane. The panel of glass-surface, Framing our fictions, fades…
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WORBEMUSTIES for the 2017 NEW YEAR
As often as I remember, I do this thing every new year where I mourn the worsts of the past year, celebrate the bests of the past year, and dream for the musts in the coming year — here are the worbemusties for the 2017 new year. WORSTS OF 2016 : night of sleep: the…
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If Earth is a Globe
“I can faintly resist when a man says that if the earth were a globe cats would not have four legs; but when he says that if the earth were a globe cats would not have five legs I am crushed.” — Chesterton in A Defense of Planets
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The Best Amateur Website Still Uses Canva
Featured Tool: Click here to access the main tool that the best amateur websites use. Awhile back when I went cruising around for advice on my site, I found the best amateur website still using the same service that all of these other amateur websites used. I hesitate to mention it because I don’t want to…
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absolutely convinced atheist
“An absolutely convinced atheist, it often seems to me, is simply someone who has failed to notice something very obvious—or, rather, failed to notice a great many very obvious things.” ― David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
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Living without Social Media — 21 Letters Written
Well we’re two months into our year of living without social media and I can confidently say I don’t miss it, even with googling the news more than normal (which I’m also trying to curb as I used to abstain from reading the news, but as the desert fathers said, sometimes you have to use one vice to…
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King
16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would…
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The Best Writers Blog on How to Write Better
Some of the best writers out there blog on how to write better. Maybe not often, but certainly they all tend to have their own bits of advice scattered throughout the internet. I’ve taken the liberty of making another one of my epic lists in order to guide you to the bests blogs on how…
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Mr. Two Face Dark Knight : Meeting Jongluers and Troubadours in my Dark Knight Rewatch
I could be called Mr. Two Face Dark Knight when it comes to analysis and thinking — reflectively — on the films and books I read. I don’t know about you, but I find myself wrong more often than I’m right. Likely that’s because everything we don’t know is infinite. Everything we do know is finite. And…
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anti-intellectualism
Of the available ways for an educational institution to spend its time, anti-intellectualism is quite literally the dumbest.
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New York Names
I just told a story about my landlords Tommy and Tommy to the heads of chess club: Sean and Sean. Oh New York…