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As knowledge of electricity advanced

Today will be a double-update day.

A shout-out to anyone who is visiting my blog based on the mention of it today in my campus newspaper. You should know that I am incredibly boring, and so is my blog. If you know me personally or have had any classes with me you could have guessed this. AND ALSO: My hosting service is currently doing some server migration, so if you’re getting lag here that’s why. Would you actually care? Probably not.

Anyway, if you’re looking for something in the way of intellectual stimulation aside from the mess on Harry Potter I’m posting today, I suppose I could point out what are probably the biggest draws to this place in terms of traffic. Basically it’s essays: the first is a serial write-up on Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho I did last fall, and the second is a Marxist reading of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki. A certain crackpot Japanese politician/writer has recently called Uzumaki the “Das Kapital of horror manga” so it shows you that I’m really not reaching wildly with that.

I also write fiction — poetry and short stories are collected with an umbrella label. Also, if you want to learn about what it was like during my study abroad in London, you can check that out here.

Now for real blogging business. On the subject of writing: I gave my first public reading at an event on campus just this last Wednesday. In a paragraph I’m gonna try to describe some experiences from that. Are you ready? I am so ready.

Guys I gave a reading of a story I wrote and I did this in public in front of a lot of people some of whom I knew and most of whom I did not but I didn’t screw anything up and I think people like the story and a lot of people randomly passing by actually have like stopped me and told me they were there and they liked it and that is a really nice feeling and also I had the pleasure of reading with other awesome people who don’t have blogs but if they did this is the spot where I would link them.

Well that’s that!

Now for something completely different, from the Norton Anthology of Literature, Volume C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, 8th ed:

By the late 1740s, as knowledge of electricity advanced, public experiments offered fashionable British crowds the opportunity to electrocute themselves.

Hey guys I go to college

And sometimes, my college has problems. Like, let’s say my college is a dry campus, but people drink alcohol all the time anyway. And they get in trouble. And then they write two dozen op-ed pieces in the campus paper talking about how they should be able to drink if they want and not get in trouble even if campus policy clearly states otherwise.

And then I write an op-ed piece where I solve the problem once and for all.

What a day

So shortly after I posted that last entry about Uzumaki, there was a tornado. (This is intensely ironic if you’ve read the manga.) Anyway, don’t worry, I’m okay!

But I also just got word that the first short story I’ve sold to the fine folks at Dark Recesses has gone live! Yes, I sold a story, that was the big news I mentioned a few weeks back. It is called “Empty Houses” and you can read it here. It is a story about a robot, and some other things.

Anyone who’s wandered this way from Dark Recesses — hello! Uh. If this were me welcoming you into my house, at this point I’d offer tea or lemonade or something, but as it is I’ll just say feel free to poke around and see what sort of inane stuff I ramble about. If this were me welcoming you into my house, this would be like you going into all the rooms and digging through my stuff — that would be bad, but since this is the internet it’s the way we have to do things. Read some of my essays I’ve written or follow me on Twitter or something. Okay? Cool.