: About Me

I'm not much of a writer, I'm a thinker. I don't outline much outside my head, and I don't revise much. It must be a throwback to the Stone Ages, when almost everything we did was permanent. Look, the stuff is still there. Hand axes. Cave paintings. Thousand year snuffed out fire pits. I'm not one of those people who think that we should go back to the caves; obviously, I'm on a computer.

Semicolons have always confused me.

But I do think that we are in an Age of Impermanence. The only thing historians will be able to tell about us is that there sure were a lot of us, and that we didn't throw our garbage into a star like they do.

Tense changes screw me up, too.

I enjoy thinking about the future. I'm hopeful. I think it'll be "the cans" of a time. This page is supposed to be "aboutme", which is an anagram for Beat O' Mu. Mu is a Zen answer for questions that have no right answer, a void answer like the number Zero is a void number. A place holder answer. So, beat it, that nothing, and I'll just keep trying to fill this void that is "aboutme".

Anyways, it should be clear that I can bullshit and sound smart - which doesn't mean that I AM smart, unless you don't read this sentence.

My passion is ...

abstraction.

I know too much about ...

things that don't help me.

My parents always told me ...

to not be a dip, take a dip.

My childhood ambition ...

to know physics.

My favorite memory ...

is a smell.

Why I write ...

The fingers. They don't stop.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Dr Who: "The Trial of a Time Lord"

My first job ...

Sacking grocieries at Hy-Vee

My best moment ...

was a first date that ended up lasting the rest of my life.

My inspiration ...

I am inspired by many thinking men and women throughout history.

Creative Writing > Satire Satire: Religion

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Religious fervor in this country and in others has led an interesting minority of people who, fed up with It All, have decided to make a mockery of faith, belief, and anybody claiming to have The One True Faith. These people have done this with resounding philosophical success by doing what The Daily Show has done to news: they've satirized it. Like The Daily Show, satirical religious groups force us to think about the nature of religion and belief in a wholly new way. The nature of a satirical religion is primarily democratic - anyone can make up any belief, and, if taken seriously enough...

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