compulsive compartmentalization

Captured thoughts…on exhibit in the zoo that is the blog-o-sphere.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G.K. Chesterton

Archive for the 'Writing' Category

the future of history

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

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art as a lesson in humility

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Yesterday I began working on a new 12-page comic story. After spending hours finishing up the first page I stepped back and thought, “This doesn’t look like I wanted it to.”
In fact, nothing ever looks like I really want it to. My theory is that I want to create something that impacts [...]

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combined service

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

We sat all lined sideways in pews
Two churches with two different views
As time slipped away
My mind went astray
And instead I sat there and drew

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navigating the sea of humanity

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Heads talking and smiling. Bodies block the hall at irregular intervals. I try to get by, but they remain unmoved, focused on their happy encounters. Slipping by at last I walk a few steps when another blockade forms suddenly and I swing aside at the last second, avoiding a collision. They [...]

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a way with words…

Wednesday, December 29th, 2004

“It is the immemorial privilege of letter-writers to commit to paper things they would not say; to write in a more grandiose manner than that in which they speak; and to enlarge upon feelings which would be passed by unnoticed in conversation.” -C. S. Lewis, in a letter to Arthur Graves
Every so [...]

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the awkward odyssey: Christine

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

The advent of the 8th grade saw the release of that strange hormone that forces awkwardness upon teenage boys. Socially, I shut down, crawled up into my shell, and waited for middle school to be over. The only solace I found was in my 8th grade crush, a cute long-haired girl who [...]

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the odyssey of an awkward boy

Tuesday, October 19th, 2004

The sky to the west is a dark grey that gives a peculiar contrast to the brighter eastern clouds. After a steady afternoon rain the feeling of fall sits heavily in my room. In my mind I’m in the 8th grade again, the day not unlike this one. I get off [...]

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haiku posting

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004

Here’s what’s on my mind this morning:
At school so early
I have no problem parking
Now to kill three hours

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recalcitrant lines

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004

I was sitting here just now pillaging my brain for those great ideas that I had when I was jogging the other day, but it seems I left them two streets over. So, instead of the profound and insightful I give you the profoundly absurd and unfinshed nonesense that is this poem.

Cedric Deets was [...]

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