Category Archives: Writings

Encroach (1-3)

1.
Stagger, sway only into the last haul.
Jagged feet of my own that realize
such a haunting dread of displacement.
The self subsumed by currents, by the Bleak.
A path through the dense green thickness
and now an opening with branches like tendrils
tendons tickling scraping the face gently.
This, the first limping leg of the journey.
2.
And then, a gap, the [...]

A Wind-Whipped Umbrella (2 Eyeslit Tankas)

Dripping shards of grass
The obfuscated sun-slime
of a bleak current
Encircle toward the Vague
If only to sink within
The shivering self
and a wind-whipped umbrella
I stumbled at last
Not so luminous under
a silk quilt epiphany

The Asphyxia of Becoming: Cioran watches “The Brown Bunny”

Let us commit the crime of dissection. We shall proceed to cut a Cioranian fragment open, exposing the innards and watching them ripen. The theme: time, the frame: “The Brown Bunny”.
“I accumulate the past, constantly making out of it and casting into it the present, without giving it a chance to exhaust its own [...]

Reflections on “Poolside Chats With Neil Hamburger”

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The beauty of “Poolside Chats with Neil Hamburger” is the over-arching technical distractions, communicative disruption of the callers and anomalous-humorous confrontations perpetuated by the shows host Neil Hamburger. That is to say, overworked by “garbage” minded call-ins, faulty microphones and having access to an open bar, Hamburger assaults, demeans and controls the show [...]

Organic/Inorganic (Pt.1)

Fashion is our binding to the world, the meeting place of the organic and the inorganic. Fashion follows us through hospitality, becomes our personal dwelling place, our very own parergon. The garment enwraps the body, covers the body. Fashion suggests, expects, and allows us to transcend the materiality of our [...]

A Virtual Partner: Questions and Concerns

I recently read an interesting article, the title: “More Japanese cutting out the middleman with dating sims and sex toys” published in English translation on the Mainichi Daily News website. This article discusses the rising use of “dating” computer software games, masturbatory aids and frigidity common among young Japanese men (and women). My initial thoughts [...]