Tokyo Nights: Howl

I’ve been living in Tokyo for two months now. This is my first update since the move. I relocated from a quiet “bed town” in Ibaraki to a beautiful neighborhood close to Shinjuku. While my neighborhood in Tokyo is relatively quiet, I miss the dead-of-night stillness that comes from being in the countryside. I grew [...]

The Evening News: Aphorisms

The news: keeping abreast of one’s irrelevance dot com. One popular news page, which collects stories from other pages tells us more about the morbidity of the editor, than it does about “the news.” These days, keeping oneself “informed” about daily events takes precedence over developing one’s self to live a more humanizing life. The [...]

The Unholy Dimensions of Jeffrey Thomas

An article/interview I did for MishMash Magazine on horror writer Jeffrey Thomas is up. Check it out! The Unholy Dimensions of Jeffrey Thomas Also, for an excerpt from his novel “Deadstock” and 10 links pertaining to his work, please see: Deadstock: Excerpt Enjoy.

Jeffrey Thomas: Deadstock (Excerpt)

In the midst of a typhoon, I have been working on an article for Mish Mash Magazine about the prolific author, Jeffrey Thomas. The piece for Mish Mash features a three-question interview with Jeffrey Thomas and thoughts on his work and its effect on me, the reader – a kind of phenomenological indulgence piece. In [...]

Ramo Nakajima: Zombie (from his book “Shiritori Essays”)

Image from WikipediaThe following is an original translation of the late counterculture essayist/novelist, Ramo Nakajima and comes from his book “Shiritori Essays.” “Shiritori” is a Japanese word-game where one after saying a word begins the next word with the last letter of the preceding word. For example, if I say “tree,” you may say “eat” [...]

Virtual Hysteria: Cyberspace and Reality

The experience of engaging in cyberspace, of living through this interface, presents one with challenging experiences as to the virtuality of the self and to the virtuality of reality. That is, the ability to create (or have created for you), maintain (be maintained) and, ultimately lose control of one’s internet identity and the greeting of [...]