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Book Report: The Picture of Dorian Gray

When I read a book I tend to pick up on the themes from that book in other pieces of art or media.  This occurred recently with “The Picture of Dorian Gray” which is about a dashing young aristocrat (Dorian Gray) from 1800′s England who has a portrait of himself painted that has supernatural powers.  After [...]

Take that, Rewind it back (Part 1)

I was so busy when I had first moved to Australia that I didn’t have time to write about my adventures of when I first arrived here (I know you are on the edge of your seat wondering what happened).  This is my attempt to right what once was wrong (kind of like a crappy [...]

Book Report: Less Than Zero

While I was wandering around the bookstore last weekend looking for a new book and I picked up “Less Than Zero” and read the back cover.  One of reviews said: “One of the most disturbing novels that I’ve read in a long time.  It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality.” – Michiko Kukatani, New [...]

Time… to begin

I have always had a secret obsession with the passing of time.  The general workings of life fascinate me more than almost anything.  Part of this obsession has to do with the various ways that I catalog the happenings in life.  My memory sucks.  It does, it always has, and some drug/alcohol dabbling here and [...]

Time for a Shitty Haiku!

Summer is ending No stolen base in sight Free taco dreams over