For the second day in a row, immigration officials shot and killed civilians during the course of their alleged duties. This time, the offending agency was the U.S. Border Patrol, the victim count was two, and the location was Portland, Oregon. The Trump Administration is posthumously slandering the victim of the first shooting, claiming that…

I’ve lost count of the atrocities committed by the United States in the past month. Of especial note are the kidnapping of Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales, a natural-born U.S. Citizen, by ICE in defiance of clear evidence of live U.S. birth; the recent war on Venezuela, which precipitated the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and…

I can’t remember the first time I heard the familiar drumbeat that we live in an individualized age, that modern life atomizes us and fragments us, destroying our communities, severing human ties, and makes each of us utterly alone in the world. I also can’t quite remember the last time I heard this assertion, only…

Finally completed a “scrum” to halfway satisfaction. After committing to working in mini-scrums, I suddenly found myself more than overwhelmed and decided that it was finally time to take a mini-vacation, as much as it did not seem the time. My body (and mind) appeared to demand it of me. So I spent a few…

For the past year I’ve been working on the second issue of Runicfire, a supposedly monthly literary zine. I’ve not been happy with the time scale, and there are a number of reasons for the lateness. The first is that a lot’s been happening in my personal life. I released the first issue of Runicfire…

I recently rid myself of my Facebook account, and less than two hours in I feel amazing. Several times over the preceding months—indeed, over the last several years, though I recall only hazily—I’ve wondered what I actually use that platform for. I barely recall when I first started using it. Was it around 2004, when…

So I finally saw Alien: Romulus this Friday. While a full review will have to wait, allow me to say this: it sucks. It’s an important movie and it’s well made in parts, but it sucks. Romulus amounts to a patchwork of elements from the first four Alien films, with a dash of Prometheus and…

The following article was written several months back—and, needless to say, much has changed since then. However, the issue I describe in this article is probably still relevant to some extent, and despite my perfectionism I just need to get this out. And so, though belated, I present “Post-Election in Blue.” I’ve been bracing for…

Just added the first coat of paint for the Vol 002 cover. It’s water-soluble oils; they claim to dry quickly, but I’m not sure how many days that happens to be.