The Persistence of Decay (Youtube Essay)
One more year passes and once again WordPress reminds me that I still own this website and that they still collect money from my bank account. It came out only a couple of days ago, spurring the thought that I really ought to either contribute something or let the whole thing go. Oddly enough, I…
I am Tired of Selling.
There used to be a little book-and-art-and-handmade-goods store on the North Shore of Chattanooga back in the 2010’s, when I was attending university nearby. Coming from the small and culturally dead town that I grew up in, places like these were new, and novel, and made me feel like a real adult just for being…
Revisiting David Foster Wallace & ‘Consider the Lobster’
David foster Wallace was an American author and essayist, probably best known for his novel Infinite Jest (1996), which was featured in Time magazine’s list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. Infinite Jest is an infamously long and dense read. I admit that I never finished it myself, and sold…
