Balckwell Online

ESSAYS

I am still in the process of uploading all the essays on this page.

The End of Cool Times
I Saw You in That World We Call "Mai Dai," or Blinking Lights (Are How I Forge My Road)

A Short Dream, About You
The Only Bacon is a 'Bacon,' The Only Meat is a 'Meat,' The Only Memory is the One We All Forgot, and Eighteen Months of a Watch
Saizeriya and the Last True Beauty
Not Quite Themselves, or Humanity's Grand, Ever-Evolving Dash Toward a Brick Wall
What Makes Conscious Life Such a Wonderful State of Being, or The Apathy of a Goodbye We Forgot to Say
'Do You Know "Tayoru?"' – A Conversation with a Chinese Girl on January 9th, 2016
Four Hot Dogs
Take My Hand; Take My Whole Life Too, or What The World Calls Love
Everything Feels So Real, and Then It Doesn't, and Then It Does Again, or This Beautiful Street Would Just Be a Hard and Sad Street For Her
Lie To Me, While The Earth Will Still Let You, or Teach Us to Slam Dunk Our Basketballs

My Fun November
A Confused Fish Eats a Dog, and A Bloody Fish Sees a Cat
We May Probably Be Happy Forever: The Fictional Anti-Sequel to 'Not For you Baboo'
A Review of Love, or Not For You Baboo
As Much a Nantoka as Nantoka: A Retrospective Written Upon the Remembrance of Two Closely Related Events That Occurred Within the Same Week, One Year Ago
Screaming About The Games We Play, or 'I Can Laugh About It Now But at the Time It Was Terrible
A Time In Tokyo, or Hold On To That Right Thing
Football Ruined My Life
I'm Home – Oh Wait, What's a Home? or An Apple Tea To Go, Please
Morrissey: An Autobiography
How I Feel Terrible On the Internet, or Think About Me When You're Sad
A Review of the Video Game "Super Mario Maker"
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Outside the Old Normal, Inside The New Normal, or 'This is Where I Buy My Delicious Cakes'
Between Me And You (Is an Indiana Jones Transition), or Wherever You Go, You Are Yourself
New Jacket, New Shirt, New Mike – Relatively Old Pants, or The Stor(ag)e (Of My Mind)
A Night at the Club, or Darkness Seeps In Through The Ears
This is One: Here We Go
Here I am: I Am/Was/Am Not Jim/Roy; Let's Move On: Alright, Let's Not Talk About Love, or We're Not Talking About Love Today
Only In Dreams: A Title Based on That Song By Weezer, or She, With the One Large Earring and the One Small Earring, Eating a Hot Dog
Tiny Explosions of Memory and Feeling, or How To Create (And Exploit) A Past
A Library of Vending Machines, or A Museum of Taiko Drums, or The Pain of a Pouring of Tea
What Chases Me Across the Sea