Woohoo! My first official rejection!

I’m not a poet, but I sent a couple of hacky poems to a local, DIY literary magazine that shall remain nameless. I wrote the pieces as part of a writing assignment, so I shouldn’t have taken them seriously. The response was curt, but not necessarily rude. It was simply “I’m not [...]

The Biggest Company in the World is an Oil Company

Of course, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. PetroChina took the honor from ExxonMobil by having a value of over $1 trillion. Yes, economically, as a planet, we have broken the trillion dollar mark. The two companies in the running for “World’s Biggest Company” were oil companies. For years, we have [...]

The Books That Really Fucked Me Up

I’m reading George Orwell’s 1984 right now, and I think it will be listed in my “Books That Really Fucked Me Up” list. To date, the books on the list include (in no particular order) Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Tom Robbins’ Another Roadside Attraction, Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, The Bhagavad Gita, [...]