Fernweh

There’s a place I visit in my dreams.

Dreaming of Yuuji and Rengoku

~ short essay on Yuuji and Rengoku, from Jujutsu Kaisen and Demon Slayer, a pair of battle shōnen anime.

The Archer

After he fired the little knives from his string, The Archer was not one fit for standing still.

Primal Landscape

~ a kind of poem

Altered Course

~ Do you ever feel like the world has already ended?

Church

When you walk inside church, everything seems to change.

Rambo is America’s Shadow

~ short review-essay on the film First Blood (1982)

Superhero

Adam’s first conscious memory was of the film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,

The Seductions of Clarity

~ essay on a contemporary philosophy paper by C. Thi Nguyen on {false} clarity, conspiracy theories and bureaucratic quantifications, and the seductiveness of such systems of thought in the modern world.

Fa

On a wall behind a food truck at Sixth, a half-finished face garnered the attention of a group of kids.