Gun Freaks: Are They Really Freaks?
Gun control is the topic of discussion after every rich suburban boy with an untreated mental illness gets angry and…
In the Mind of a Sleeping Cat and Other Poems
There was no god to begin with: only a small spectral entity lumbering up a tree. Not ennui, not cosmic…
Disaster Movies and the Collective Longing for Annihilation
The majority of the human species breathed a sigh of relief as they woke up Saturday morning December 22, 2012…
At Sea and Other Poems
He is in the water, legs kicking like horses. The water is joyous spinning around him its ribbons. The sky…
Small Love Affairs Gone: Music, Memory, Missing
I’ll admit: when I decided to give up my own music and let other people pick what I listened to…
We Shall Overcome? The Problem of Self Infatuation in Western Ideology and Conflict Resolution
Wildly popular in modern culture, the medium of film operates as a pseudo canvas upon which current and historical social…
The Bricklayer
Danny O’Toole suddenly found himself hovering somewhere between time and space; hearing conversations from people who were not there. He…
Reality is Indifferent as to Whether or Not We Believe: The Ethics of Found Footage
Chronicling the tragic death of self proclaimed ecologist Timothy Treadwell, Werner Herzog's documentary film Grizzly Man draws upon over one…
Western Flicks and the Academy Awards: The Values We Live and Die By
As long as there are movies, there will be Westerns. A love letter to a time in America when heroes…
Ode to Annelids
Here I am walking to class, bending over in my raincoat and big clunky Wellingtons, trying to balance my umbrella…