The Creative Orgasm

Art is not esoteric.

The end of another year, but it’s also the beginning of another year.

A New Year’s Message from Southern Ronin

buck the preacher

you jes don buck the preacher

you cain’t jes senim fly’n from ‘is pedestal [chowl!]

da media ain’t called concerned ‘bout yo position

so jes toss yo crumpled lil thoughts in dis’ere grocery bag and I’ll tuck’em away in da frig

you know, keep’m fresh
until you rested enough ta notice’m withering

like day ol’ courage

[what’s […]

I wrote this after a hard, hard week at work. I worked till about midnight, and decided to sleep in my car rather than drive an hour back to my house. Waffle House was the order of the night.

I want to hold on to this feeling of unexpected contentment. Sitting down, I […]

It was but a little more than a month ago that I, myself, was in New Orleans. I’m very lucky in the fact that I have great future in-laws. My fiancée’s family takes me everywhere with them on vacations. It’s kind of nice actually. I get to take advantage of all kinds of cool trips I myself couldn’t afford. And so it was in this vain that I went to the Big Easy for a fun and food filled weekend by the River.

I met Dorothy Dandridge at a dusty wine bar sharply at nine

nine, the number of the evening

nine ball
ninth street
theatre cats with nine lives

In any proper garden, there are three factors that must be present to create growth: seeds, a gardener, and God. In light of the recent chaos, I would like to speak to these three now.

Here I am recently engaged, and, well, knowing me, you know I have to make light of the situation. Some funny little antecdotes on preparing for marriage.

In August of 2005, I flew to Chicago with Chasen Grieshop to help sell his upcoming comic book, “The Butcher of Balis”.

Along the way, we struggled to pay the travel costs, hunted Kevin Smith, and screwed with Steve Sansweet’s delicate mind.

This is a record of that journey.

I just received word that Katie Johnson has passed on.

Katie Johnson was a beautiful 6-year-old girl, one of three beautiful daughters of Alvin Johnson (founder of the "Fighting" 501st Star Wars costuming group). In November, Katie was diagnosed with brain cancer. When the Johnson family learned the tumor was inoperable, they did the […]