(A/IN/PER)SPIRE - A Tale of a Tattoo ft. an updated catalog
The last time I documented all of my tattoos was back at the end of 2024 where I had nine tattoos. In the intervening interval I have gotten seven more. Here...
OHM - A Treatise on Resistance Ahead of Turning 35
I’ve told all these stories before. But given that I’m about to turn 35 two days after this email goes out, they feel… relevant. Ohm, as indicated by the...
"We Don't Make $#!% Up."
“WE DON’T MAKE $#!% UP” #VONABody #VONAStateOfTheNation It hasn’t quite been six years, but as I continue to languish and ponder about about my future...
Musing on Mixed Media: A Review of Olivia Rodrigo's "you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love."
[Picture for a second, a messy desk and then picture me entering from out of a frame and wiping mess off the desk and taking a seat.] Okay, so strictly...
If There is One Other Thing Generative AI Has Been Good For, It's Getting Me Off The Apps
This is a sequel. And if I’m being honest, I thought this would be a sequel I was going to write a lot later but I think that’s a function of an unbridled...
Travel/Tech Fatigue In Your Mid-30s
For better and for worse, this is your third trip in four months and it's the most you travelled in ages and your body is making it very clear that you're no...
I got current on a manga for the first time in forever.
For however the cruel and indifferent the universe is capable of being, the universe also does manage to be kind and specifically caring when I least expect...
[What if I sent a placeholder?]
[This is a thought exercise. This is a mental construction. This is something different because sometimes we need to try something different in order to...
A Reset at a Respite
“as it turns out, retreating into the wilderness after a tech conference is in fact healing.” I am a child of the digital age. I have no affinity for nature,...
On Contraposition
Among my many electives in undergrad, I took a Symbolic Logic course, either my sophomore or junior year. It was a course that fulfilled a core requirement...
End Cap to My 30/30
By the time this month ends, I will have written 30 poems in 30 days, and you’ll be able to read them here. I am not happy with all of the poems. But I am...
So, it's the third week of my first 30/30 in a minute.
There are 20ish poems and counting here. There is never just one inciting incident in a decision. Everything exists in the context of every thing that came...
So, it's the second week of my first 30/30 in a minute.
Read all of the poems as they become available here. I write a lot. I write in a professional capacity. I write in a hobbyist capacity. I write to satiate my...
So, it's the first week of my first 30/30 in a minute.
I’m writing this on Sunday night, and I’m writing this because as much as I have enjoyed making videos for the sake of making videos and as much as that is a...
April is National Poetry Month and I Have Far Too Much Free Energy, So I Am Doing a 30/30
So when writing last week’s newsletter/blog post, I think I ended up convincing myself to do a 30/30. Or maybe, it was even before that. Back in October when...
Matching Mixed Media: Seminal Short Forms
I haven't called myself a poet since… I don't know, maybe around 2018? Between the years of 2009 to… well definitely 2017, and probably a little bit after...
March's Mixtape - Songs To Rage Against The Heavens In An Anime Inspired Way
This is not the hill I will die on. This is the hill I will kill on though. Stock image of '“Hill” from Akshay Lichade on Pexels. I wouldn’t categorize my...
Mapping Mikkel: The Pathos of a Technical Writer
After writing out all of my “canon events” from my pre-college days, I really thought I was gonna continue on with another list and talk about some of the...
I tabled for the first time at the inagural aznzinefest
I did have the mental capacity to record a full video, so instead enjoy this video of me reading the one zine that I sold out of. The reason I don’t have the...
Matching Mixed Media: On Masculinity, Fighting, and What Happens After
These are things are true. I am non-binary.I was raised as a man.At some point in my life, I held a black belt in a homegrown style called Jung Su before...
