I’m reading White Noise by Don DeLillo for a class called The Contemporary American Novel. The book is essentially a parody of modern American life circa 1984. What’s so interesting to me about the story is the mutability, the uncertainty of truth as depicted in the text. There’s an undercurrent of rampant consumerism that practically [...]

Saturday night I went to see Nine Inch Nails at US Bank Arena in Cincinnati. It was a fun night despite muddy sound (possibly due to where we were sitting) and what I thought was a bit too short of a performance from Trent Reznor and company. The opening act was a band called Moving [...]

It’s Saturday morning again and I’m surrounded by what must be a hundred children. The funny thing is that there are only five of them here! The oldest had a friend sleep over and they’re both still sleeping upstairs. I know better by now than to try to get anything useful done at times like [...]