Caitlin Flanagan of Vanity Fair has taken the art of the first paragraph to a new level in her article The Dark Power of Fraternities. I’m not going to quote it here. Just: coffee & cats warning, okay? There should be a trigger warning on the subject matter of the rest, though, which is about […]
My Unusual High School
I went to three different “high schools” during 9th-12th grade. My first year, I was in the Los Angeles school district, which counted 9th grade as a part of middle school (then called junior high school). Then I switched from living with my mother and stepfather to living with my father and stepmother—shortly after that, […]
On Privilege and Normalcy
(Repost of something I wrote on LiveJournal in 2010) A while ago, Jay Lake talked about his privilege in his cancer treatment, and it got me to thinking about my privilege in a number of contexts. I’m white, and that comes with power in our culture, but it’s not that that makes my own set […]
Urban Ruins Show
My photo, First Man, has been accepted for Foothill College’s Urban Ruins exhibit, which runs from September 26 – November 2nd. I used two programs for this: Apple’s Aperture, which I used for straightening and cropping the image, and Nik Color Efex Pro, specifically the saturation stylizer effect. My thanks to Mung and Digit, whoever […]