Thoughts On Sci-Fi

01.22.2007

A brief essay on what isn’t good about science fiction.

LET’S BE SERIOUS

06.20.2005

Let’s drop the a-bomb of politics on a website that normally doesn’t discuss such things unless thinly veiled behind sub-par fiction.

LOVE STINKS

02.18.2002

When I was near tears she finally relented and, after a few seconds that seemed to stretch into days of looking into her eyes for a reason why, I ran to the office for a band-aid to patch my new wound.

THE SILENT CITY

09.12.2001

From the roof of my apartment building, one of my friends and I would sit atop it and gaze at the awesome sight of the twin towers that rose, as most of the country now knows, one-hundred and ten floors into the sky.

YES, LADIES, I AM A BAD GUY

05.28.2001

As a founding member, I blocked the addition of a new kid to the board and in abstentia the next week, was elected out of the game. Fights ensued. Things were said. I was definitely a bad guy then.

TIME FOR A NEW MAN ON THE MOON

04.02.2001

The way I see it, it’s like the knight in the Last Crusade, they’re stuck there, for however long, until someone comes to replace them but it’s better than the movie because I doubt I’d have to fight them.

I WAS ALMOST ALWAYS FED AS A CHILD

03.19.2001

Dad had a tendency to overcook everything, which was fine with eggs because there is nothing worse than runny eggs.

BONNIE SCOTT, YOU CHANGED ME

02.26.2001

The two of us quickly bonded over the two things we had in common. Star Trek and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I was in eighth grade at the time and it was the only band I knew.

SOMEWHERE COMICS WENT WRONG

01.29.2001

Comics, even as little as six years ago, were a fun an interesting medium for both pop culture and entertianment. Looking at the state of things now, where the hell did things go wrong?

MY LIFE BUILT ON CRIME

01.15.2001

It was as sweltering a summer as the dry California heat gets, and it was during one too many days, sweating in the ticket booth at the drive-in, that he made a decision that would forever change the course of his future.