Some time ago I came to the conclusion that modern life as currently structured is a poisonous thing. The inter-connectedness made possible by technology allows us to maintain the illusion of being sociable without actually going through the messy, sometimes ugly, process of sociability. I don't know whether it warps us or not, but I felt that it warped me by allowing me to pretend...
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I'm non-monogamous, in a sense. My early experiences with polyamory were, fundamentally, rationalizations for my own selfish behavior; I didn't know what I wanted because I hadn't done the hard work of thinking about it, and as a result I used non-monogamy as an excuse to avoid committing to someone out of fear that I would commit to the wrong person. As I've grown up...
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One of my odd pleasures is revisiting places from my past, to see if they still exist and, if so, to see how they've changed, if at all. The best example of this is that, when I was in my last year of college, I had a girlfriend who had a lovely little apartment in West Campus in Austin. Even though the relationship didn't work...
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