Category: real life

  • Lessons From The Bachelor, Volume 2

    WTF, Jake. Vienna? Really? We drank Old Vienna and watched in horror as Jake chose her over Tenley. I know it is the cool thing to hate Vienna, but the thing is, I really don’t. There’s nothing wrong with being tactlessly blunt in my books, and I’m sure she’d make a perfectly good friend in…

  • First Person Plural

    We need to abandon the idea that each of us has one cohesive identity. Everyone possesses multiple personalities, each with their own set of motivations, goals, and quirks. Call them what you want, but there’s always the rational part, the mind, driven by cool rationality, always thinking it’s calculated what’s best for you. Then there’s…

  • Book Review: Marvellous Hairy, by Mark A. Rayner

    The copy on the back of Marvellous Hairy bills it as a novel about a man who is turning into a monkey. However, it goes far beyond that. The story revolves around a giant, evil corporation nicknamed Gargantuan Enterprises, the people who want to bring it down, and before you know it, there are ghosts,…