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Restless Writing Syndrome
I fell into a fever. All white, artificial light painting my face at four in the morning. Black room. Excessive blinks. Nervous, anxious keystrokes chronicled into some semblance of completion. … Continue reading
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Tagged David Foster Wallace, Dreams, Insomnia, Microsoft Word, restlessness, sleep, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, writing
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Why Mario Kart is for Communists
First-person shooters of the X-Box culture have come to dominate the public perception of video games. Graphics grow perpetually more lifelike by the day so that in 5 years time our little sisters and brothers can look condescendingly back at … Continue reading
Posted in Essay, Reflection, The Preface, Uncategorized
Tagged Communism, Mario Kart, Nintendo 64, reflection
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The Secret World of the Vending Machine At My Job
I worked in Hopkins Hall at Saint Bonaventure University as a Web Systems Assistant last year. On my twice-weekly cookie-cutter walks down the dungeonesque, concrete stairs I would always pass an antique vending machine. It was stocked half-heartedly with things … Continue reading
Posted in Narrative, Reflection, The Preface
Tagged reflection, Vending Machines, Whatchamacallit
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Season Five, Episodes 16 & 17: ‘The Incident’ Parts I & II
The dark basement air hung thick with acrid vomit. My friends laughed and ran away from the scene — a salt-and-pepper futon now colored with an orange splat. It looked like the popular Nickelodeon logo from the mid-‘90s. I galloped … Continue reading
Posted in Reflection, The Preface
Tagged buck hunting, chevrolet impala, london, lost, myrtle beach, peroxide, pints, pubs, the incident
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Robert Lax: a simple life
In late 2009, I sat in an undergrad poetry-writing class at St. Bonaventure University watching my professor carefully trace a title in chalk at the front of the room. The four words remained etched into the blackboard for the entire … Continue reading
Blowing the Dust Off Aesop’s Fables
“So, um, seriously, I only have to pay 3 dollars for this?” This is the only reaction I had to offer when I finally managed to secure a copy of Arthur Rackham’s handsomely illustrated version of Aesop’s Fables. I found … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesop's Fables, Antique, Arthur Rackham, Literary Theory, Used Books
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Let’s go down the waterfall: a story about Radiohead
I used to sell doughnuts for a living. Well, that’s only half true — I worked in a coffee and doughnut shop part time for the latter two years of high school. To say that I hustled baked dough circles … Continue reading
Posted in Narrative, Reflection, The Preface
Tagged blossom music center, bodysnatchers, climbing up the walls, colin greenwood, ed o'brien, fake plastic trees, give up the ghost, hail to the thief, i might be wrong, idioteque, in rainbows, jonny greenwood, phil selway, pyramid song, radiohead, thom yorke, videotape
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Spirits on the hill: the story of the St. Bonaventure Cemetery
The St. Bonaventure Cemetery sits atop a large hill overlooking the university of the same name. That colorful campus lies below, and the cemetery keeps watch with a Delphic eye like a wise old uncle. Walking the long sidewalk between … Continue reading
A loss of wisdom in a slip of consciousness
Yesterday, I had all four of my wisdom teeth pulled out. I wasn’t at all nervous about it the week before the surgery, or even the morning of, but as my mom pulled into the above ground hospital parking lot, … Continue reading
The Same Old Game
Stars linger in the blackened sky as sixteen people trudge from their warm van into the Olean Racket Club. It is 5:40 a.m. They step over Plexiglass that once enclosed the club’s front entrance. Only the metal skeleton of the … Continue reading
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