Posts under ‘On Being Strange’

– It’s almost 5am and I’m tapping away at my keyboard while my Acer netbook restores to factory settings for the second time in its life. The process is taking a suspiciously long time but I am hopeful, and somehow this comic feels appropriate to share right now.

So instead all I’ll post for weeks at a time are quotes or song lyrics or conversations. Not as a cop out; everything I publish here touches on some personal truth or another, even if there are seemingly conflicting ideas. In fact, if you saw some of the zillions of drafts I have for this [...]

Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine, and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And fortunately, when there aren’t any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind a loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a [...]

  This was take 1. Figured I’d show you just how lame I can be. No shame in 09!

Christmas 2008 is a strange time to be alive. This year my brother and I are scheduled to spend it with my mom, which means we’ll sit together and have a non-Christmasy breakfast before watching a slightly uninteresting movie during which two out of the three of us will struggle to disguise our discontent in [...]

As I write this entry I’m sitting in a café with my computer looking dissatisfied: A girl, a laptop, an unspecified drink, and a crappy mug. I’m just like those chicks in the movies that have some climactic event coming their way, except instead of being on the verge of meeting my Knight in Shining [...]