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Miscellaneous Mental Musings of an Emerging Artist

Category Archives: News of the World

The Nature of the Beasts.

“They treat our home like an open-world level and they treat our neighbors like NPCs and loot boxes.”

November 11, 2025 · Leave a comment

Unwritten Responses.

Something I’m writing in place of all the things I’m choosing not to write.

November 3, 2025 · Leave a comment

Renovations and Predictable Patterns.

Speculative, but only just.

October 23, 2025 · Leave a comment

Sliding Scales.

“I don’t know how many other ways this regime has to show you who they are.”

October 16, 2025 · Leave a comment

From Big Shoulder to Big Shoulder.

“It is a patchwork of neighborhoods and the neighborhoods are patchworks of people, and every one of those people are valuable and important.”

October 5, 2025 · Leave a comment

Ad infinitum, ad nauseam.

Lessons we refuse to learn.

September 30, 2025 · Leave a comment

And I alone escaped to tell thee.

This is Mohammed el-Fateh Osman, the three year-old boy who is the only survivor of yesterday’s plane crash in the Sudan that killed 116 people. He suffered burns and lost … Continue reading

July 9, 2003 · Leave a comment

We wuz had.

Mark Bowden, the author of Black Hawk Down, Killing Pablo, and Finders Keepers, is one of the finest journalists I have ever read. [1] He is one of a dying … Continue reading

June 3, 2003 · Leave a comment

Sharks in the pool.

Random thoughts for Wednesday: – Nothing makes you appreciate the jobs of others quite like having to do them yourself for a few days. My managing editor has been out … Continue reading

March 19, 2003 · Leave a comment

“I understand now. It is not I who am crazy. It is I who am MAD!”

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri on Monday ruled out the possibility that President Saddam Hussein would go into exile to avoid war with the United States … Continue reading

March 17, 2003 · Leave a comment