Where the author recounts a particularly interesting day spent at hands of Montenegrin protesters, gets very close to the Balkan wars, refuses a bevy of Balkan brides, and ponders the future of this idyllic little town…
Entries tagged as ‘history’
Lessons of Inderterminate Nature
July 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Categories: Creative Non-Fiction · Deep Thoughts
Tagged: balkans, culture, history
I am an Atheist
July 22, 2008 · 2 Comments
In which I puzzle over the silly things people find to fight about in the world. Don’t you people have something better to do with your time…?
Categories: Deep Thoughts · Issues
Tagged: Atheism, culture, history, pontification, religion
Remembering the Balkans
July 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Creative Fiction is a relatively new classification given to writing that is entirely factual, but not written in a narrative or journalistic style. This piece describes some of my experiences while working in the Balkans in the late 1990’s. (more…)
Categories: Creative Non-Fiction
Tagged: balkans, culture, history
Me and the Man (Burning Man, that is)
July 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment
In which I develop a bit of narrative creative non-fiction based around my experiences with Burning Man. (First Draft)
Categories: Creative Non-Fiction
Tagged: burningman, culture, history
“Sealing someone’s fate…”
July 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment
I had a realization today, like a flash outta the blue…
I was reading “Plan B 3.0″, and it had the old line about something “sealing the fate of civilization”.
And suddenly I realized what an utterly moronic statement that is, because it assumes that there is an end, or final state to anything…. and that is just simply wrong. There is no END state! (more…)
Categories: Language
Tagged: culture, history, pontification, wordology