Internet Bard

Being a unique person who doesn’t quite fit in well can be a beautiful thing. But there’s another way to think about fit–what fits in your life and what doesn’t.

I like people.
In my twenties and younger, that wasn’t so much the case.  But as with all things, my opinion of and affection for my fellow man is being renewed.
In practical application, that renewal looks a lot more like a fractal than a straight line running from “all people suck” to “I have effectively become [...]

The idea that some television show will pluck you out of obscurity and fix the problems in your home, your waistline, and your career is understandably attractive. But when it comes to the problems in your life, dreaming of rescue isn’t going to get you any closer to resolution.

“What is wrong with us?” I asked myself. “Can’t one of us manage a tiny little bit of patience with the others? Why is every irritation and annoyance justification for an angry meltdown?”

Like George Costanza, I feel a little bit like my worlds are colliding.
Part of the time, I’m a web marketing geek hanging out in the swanky metropolitan downtown of Louisville, Kentucky.  Which, as everyone knows, is the quirky, offbeat Seattle of the Ohio Valley basin.
And part of the time, I live in scenic, rural Harrison county, [...]

My friends, we have seen a whole lot of crazy in six seasons. But as God is my witness, I’ve never seen anything as freaky as Claire and Sayid smiling blissfully as they walk through the carnage in the last five minutes of Sundown, as the song my mom used to sing me to sleep with played eerily in the background.

It occurred to me today that there are a lot of people|places|things|events from my past that would make a reasonably good name for a band. So without further ado, here is my list of Awesome Band Names Based on Actual Stuff from my Past

I was going to write some deep, introspective post about Chatsworth’s Veiled Vestal statue, probably throw in some references from C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces, which is a retelling of the Psyche myth featured a veiled queen, and talk about the metaphorical veils we wear over our own psyches, or souls.  I was going [...]

Okay, as promised, here goes my latest LOST theory, spawned by watching The Substitute and The Lighthouse back to back.
First, I’m going to assume you may or may not have any familiarity with the biblical book of Job.  So maybe the best way for me to expound my theory is to give you a brief [...]

Locke gets buried, Sawyer gets blitzed, Smokey goes spelunking, Hurley leads Jack, Kate seeks Claire, and Claire becomes Michael Myers. In the ALT, everyone is way more well-adjusted than they’ve ever been in our reality.