You know, I wanted this whole week to be successful based on arbitrary guidelines that I set for myself, I wanted this theme of spooky horror fear based concepts to flow all week since it is almost Halloween, and I wanted to get four posts up this week. I want to get at least four posts up every week, because I feel like I should have goals. Goals are good, right? Yet, here I am, writing about non-horror based subjects of contemplativeness, words are hard. I am once again wri

Everyone knows that clowns are creepy, or at least that clowns are considered creepy now. They weren't always widely feared and didn't alway

Halloween has become a weird holiday. I enjoy the idea of dressing up in costumes and going out into the crazy while playing the part of something else. However, I can't help but notice how different the holiday is for the city kids of today. My general impression is that so much of the fun of it all has been removed for the young as fear and paranoia over the evils of society have taken a deeper and deeper hold. Recently I was at a grocery store, doing the usual grocery stor

Personality tests are big business and there are countless surveys out there to fill out and find out what Avengers hero you are, what breed of dog you should be, or which one of Kim Kardashian's ass cheeks best represents you and your desires (which would be to touch one of said cheeks, for science... because those mother fuckers are impossible, they exist, but they can't possibly exist). This entire week seems to be all about exploring identity, so, I'll end this week of wr

That title is clickbaity as fuck! I'm quite proud of it actually. Click that bait! If I added a "10 reasons why" in front of that it could easily be an everyday Buzzfeed article. It won't be though, I couldn't write for Buzzfeed (yes I could, I have no integrity if the price is right). All of their shit boils down to a few images or .gif's and making wide sweeping generalizations with as little text as possible. That stuff is not only easy, it is dumb, and I refuse to even go

I've talked a bit about two forms of creative arts therapy previously, two of which I have explored and used personally. Arts therapy and musical therapy. After exploring the idea of identity via springing a random character on the world in unconventional settings, I stumbled across drama therapy. Out of all the possible methods of creativity, acting and playing out a scene with others has been both very appealing to me as well as incredibly intimidating. Getting into a subje

The thought experiment is a wonderful tool to make the imagination wander and help us become armchair philosophers. They ask us to consider strange hypothetical ideas that there are no real right answers to and serve to inspire conversation. What made Albert Einstein a very special mind, besides the fact that he was a genius, was that he was a very imaginative genius who often used thought experiments to fuel his mind and come up with an hypothesis that he would later explore

All the world is a stage. That is a very popular phrase written by a very popular writer you may have heard of, his name is William Shakespeare. As someone who enjoys creative writing, works of fiction, and art in general, I am sort of obligated to sing his praises as one of the greatest things to ever exist, and misquote him as often as possible. I mean, misquoting him is easy since he wrote in a version of English all his own that takes time to dissect, learn, and pretend t

You might have seen this guy floating about in many of the images I've drawn throughout the website. He is a big driving force for me creating this whole site in the first place and one of the first things I meant to write about. However, I have struggled with it since I want to make even the most uncomfortable of subjects in my head a bit funny for others to read about. Sometimes your only choices are to cry or to laugh, and it just feels better to laugh. The Dark Man is the

I have this issue when eating, I find it very hard to eat without having something on the television to passively watch. If I try to eat without a show, music, or some form of organized noise then everything doesn't feel right. Eating in quiet feels like a last meal sort of thing, like I'm supposed to be depressed and dreading what follows. I know some people sit at a table and eat together, talking and bonding with one another, but I have trouble talking and doing anything e