Creative Control

Miscellaneous Mental Musings of an Emerging Artist

Category Archives: Society

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

Lesser Sung Heroes.

“This decision was ultimately proven correct, and here we are, not telling the other story as we navigate the wastelands.”

September 26, 2025 · Leave a comment

400 Words on Contemporary Literacy.

“We need to be trained to wrestle with them rather than demand they be stuffed in a safe and sunk to the bottom of the ocean.”

February 18, 2025 · Leave a comment

“For the children.”

“I’ve lost count of the many, many ways our country’s conservative wing pretends very loudly that they care about the welfare of children.”

February 7, 2025 · Leave a comment

Varying Degrees of Difficulty.

There are some current hiring processes that should perhaps be considered as models for firearm ownership applications as well.

September 6, 2024 · Leave a comment

Fictional Family Fan Fiction.

A once-unfinished idea about two men with the same last name.

October 21, 2020 · 2 Comments

Dangerous assumptions.

“The problem is not bad apples, but bad orchards.”

August 7, 2020 · Leave a comment

An architectural allegory.

“Consider a home that should have been condemned years ago; a home that should never have been built in the first place.”

June 25, 2020 · Leave a comment

Optical illusions.

On a criminal president’s celebration of criminal justice reform.

February 2, 2020 · Leave a comment

Material witness.

An illustrative example on the questions of hearsay and firsthand accounts.

November 15, 2019 · Leave a comment