ESSAYS
I will be adding pages for each essay in reverse chronological order.
2025
2024
- Holiday Update 2024
- He Who Doesn't Know Says 'Lentils' – Balckwell Round-up 2024
- What’s the Point of Liking Music?
- Love & Dreams (True & False)
- The Six-Minute Mile
- And I Was The Monkey King
- On the Road to Nekomachi
- RAINICHI 2023 #001 PROLOGUE
- Problems & Proverbs in the Canadian Prairies
- Written on the Occasion of My Twenty-Ninth Birthday
- Kafka’s Nightmares
- RAINICHI 2023 #000.5 — An Immediate Digression Concerning the Japanese Language
- RAINICHI 2023 #000 — An Introduction
- Heaven & Good Things
- In A Town Where I Am Going to Live
- In Xanadu
- A Retreat to the Customs Office
- The End of a Coastal Man
- The Boy and the Heron
- Free & Easy
- The Daikon Farmer Points the Way, With a Daikon
2023
- In the Eyes of the Unfathomable Deity
- Holiday Update 2023
- What More Could You Ask For?
- Gotta Go to Work, Gotta Go to Work, Gotta Have a Job
- Asleep on a Sunbeam
- Gaza Writes Back
- One Chance Out Between Two Worlds
- Riker's Stasis
- Smoke & Mirrors
- Transmission From the Planet Balckwell
- Hello, Japan. Goodbye, My Japan. (or RAINICHI 2023 #-001)
- Where Did Balckwell Go?
- Creative Evolution
- Shake Off The Dust
- Reach Out For the Truth of My Life (Part Two)
- Reach Out For the Truth of My Life (Part One)
- Proving That I Exist
- Releasing My Novel
- Am I Religious?
- I'm Not Good Enough
- When Conversation is Impossible
- What is a Human Being?
- The Internet Made Me Stupid
- Ain't Got No Clock
- Neil Young's Mesoamerica
2022
- A Holiday Update
- The Graveyard Story
- Speedrunning Faust
- I Don't Like It Any More Than You Do
- The Wretched Life of the Man Who Lives With Ghosts
- In Heaven, Everything is Fine
- A Certain Sensitivity to Noise
- Shall I Languish in Obscurity?
- The Ko Rule of Eternal Revision
- You Can (Not) Go Back
- Enough of All That!
- Is Outer Space Real?
- Beyond Materialism
- Tunnel to a New Sky
2021
- Through the Lens of My Ludens Goggles
- Irreconcilable Distances, Permeable Boundaries, Overlapping Memories
- & Engage in Jolly Cooperation!
- Everything & More & More
- High On Neurosa!
- What The Hell Am I Doing Here?
- Bloodpath and Beyond
- The Lint Filter Sounds Like Donkey Kong, and So Does the Kitchen Sink Mat
- Rock Man's Sexual Cycle, or, Leave Me to My Polish Curses
- How To Make Friends
- Balckwell Manifesting
- The Balckwell Manifesto