Regarding eucatastrophes and Kevin Smith.
Today: The apocalypse is here -- JASON PETTUS NOW OWNS A CREDIT CARD. Click through for all the details, and why it reminds me of JRR Tolkien's concept of the "eucatastrophe," a suddenly great thing...
View ArticleGhaddafi, Sheen and the Collective American Punishment.
What does Charlie Sheen have to do with civil war in Libya, the lasting legacy of Bush, payday loan centers in bad neighborhoods, France in the 1950s, and how the economic meltdown is all your fault?...
View ArticleRegarding the tricky process of artists making good decisions.
My arts center's newest original book is out, which as usual has me thinking about the subjects of aging, arts administration, and the trickier and trickier question as you get older of whether or not...
View ArticleGreetings from Onlinistan.
It's been happening again -- after long online sessions, I've been feeling like I've left Chicago and am now in a fictional city called "Onlinistan" that doesn't really exist, bringing up the slippery...
View ArticleThe Jens Lekman Incident.
In which our humble narrator attends his first rock concert in a decade, buys his very first online ticket, and has a crying fit in the middle of a Jens Lekman show, over realizing that his decade-long...
View ArticleThe game of arts administration.
Today, some thoughts on my arts center finally being in the black, how running it often feels like playing a big game, how my time in Second Life in the mid-2000s led to this little theory of small...
View ArticleRegarding my freakout at the science-fiction convention.
I had a major emotional freakout and ensuing anxiety attack this weekend, after attending my first science-fiction convention in literally 25 years and having all these long-forgotten memories of high...
View ArticleShort-term frustrations and the long-term view. Plus, sex and babies.
Today, a few thoughts on some short-term frustrations I've been having recently, and the importance of keeping the long-term view in mind during such times. Plus, at 43 I'm finally starting to have...
View ArticleSuch a busy 2013, I never had a chance to post anything.
My first new entry in 14 months! Read an extra-long post about everything that happened to me in the event-filled 2013, and why it kept me too busy to write even a single update to this personal...
View ArticleLet me tell you about my grand outer-space adventures!!!
Well, okay, no, that's a lie; that's not why it's been two years since you last heard from me at my personal website. Click through for the much more mundane answer, a look at CCLaP's plans for 2016,...
View ArticleRegarding Imposter Syndrome, Learned Helplessness, and other new fun outcomes...
Today at my personal journal, an update on how my post-bootcamp tech job search is going, and thoughts on two conditions common to career changers like myself, Imposter Syndrome and Learned Helplessness.
View ArticleWhy I'm quitting Facebook: Or, Welcome to 22015 AA.
Today at my personal journal, all the reasons I've decided to quit Facebook for good at the end of this year, and what this has to do with the invention of agriculture 22,000 years ago.
View ArticleNext year should prove to be a very interesting one.
Big changes afoot around here -- I'm essentially putting CCLaP on deep freeze for the first half of 2016, so I can concentrate instead on my brand-new career as a computer programmer. Click through for...
View Article"Well, my therapist says..."; plus a sad farewell to Gapers Block.
Today at my blog, I finally go into detail for the first time about my recent decision to start seeing a therapist; plus a sad farewell to the local arts-and-entertainment website Gapers Block, and a...
View ArticleMy love/hate relationship with JJ Abrams; and six disturbing realizations...
Today, two pop-culture mini-essays: One concerning my love/hate relationship with frustrating genre director JJ Abrams; and the other, disturbing realizations about the show "Frasier" after recently...
View ArticleAsshole Jason is dead! Long live Asshole Jason!
Today, a look back at my decade in the "emotional wilderness" otherwise known as my thirties, and an examination of the things that have recently happened in my life that have finally brought that age...
View ArticleThe thirteenth overhaul of my website design is finally finished!
DevBootcamp finally pays off -- the thirteenth major overhaul of my website's design scheme is finally complete, now for the first time with fancy JavaScript animations and other details I learned...
View ArticleSurprising news about the future of CCLaP.
Surprising news this week -- after doing my taxes, I realized that my arts center actually grossed $20,000 last year, not the $14,000 I was expecting. Today at my journal, what this means for the...
View ArticleI'm watching the Olympics via streaming for the very first time this year.
2016 is the very first year I've had an opportunity to watch the Olympics via streaming coverage online. Today, some thoughts on what the experience has been like, why the BBC is the greatest place to...
View ArticleRegarding arrogant assholes and existential crises.
[After vowing to get back into a weekly publishing schedule with this personal journal of mine this year, I have once again this summer lapsed into big periods of inactivity (although this time for the...
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