About

I'm a guy. Just a guy.

If you're reading this, welcome, welcome. If you like what you're reading, then thank you, because I aim to please. If you don't like what you're reading, then thank you regardless. And though I write for you, it doesn't hurt if you share the site around, but I know you're a busy person.

Books

I put a portion of the books online.

To me, joy doesn't come from a book's plot or characters or message. It comes from the immediacy of the line, what a line intends to express and how it expresses it.

Even if it expresses something unbelievably stupid.

I'm a big believer of Ford Madox Ford's "100th page" test.

So, I like to put enough up so that you know whether you like the book or not.

I would like to put the entire books online and let ya'll figure out what to do with them physically or digitally, in the same vein webcomic creators like Christopher Hastings and Rich Burlew have done. But, AI, you know.

The same little squid robots from the Matrix that consume the content on your web pages, process them, file the processed data into some server in the American desert so that this same data can be summoned and passed through a complicated algorithm to generate more content on the prompt of, "Hey, write me a novel without impunity of copyright."

So in light of the current state of law and technology I have decided to strike a balance.

I guess this is less an explanation and more an outlet for me to rant about AI.

Blog

Writers change over time. I think so, anyway.

There are things I write that age pretty well. There are things I write that age poorly - sometimes a month, even a week after writing them.

I keep them up to remind myself, "You thought this was a good idea once", so as to keep myself honest.

But, a bit of selfishness for me, it's also to remind myself, "You've put worse stuff on this blog before, it doesn't hurt to put more."

It's a reminder to you, the reader, that this is me, and a reminder to me, who is also a reader, how I have changed over time.

For your reading pleasure, I have given a rating to each article so you know what I think is a good use of your time. Because I'm well-aware there are better things you can do with your time than to read this blog, you might as well not be annoyed or irritated by reading the bad articles.

Again, I am also a reader of this blog, so I primarily judge based on my own enjoyment of the article, that I myself wrote. So take this with a grain of salt.

- I think this is a pretty darn good article that I think raises some interesting points. I personally return to it sometimes to recall a point I made in it.

- This is a mostly good article that has a bit of fluff.

- This article is just me thinking through things. Most articles will fall here. Only good if you like the process of thinking even if the conclusion is not quite there.

- This article has very little in facts or empirical thinking and is just my gut. Only good as a time capsule.

- This is literally just rage content and possesses no substance. Even I avoid reading these.

Poetry

Yeah they're all cringe.