This Broken Land

A few seconds in the Delta

Notes on Oppenheimer, the Film

I’ve started going in caves again recently. When I was a kid my friends and I went caving a lot. There are little caves in and around Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois that are known to the locals. We’d just go in with a few flashlights and

Southern Gothic / Southern Nice

A friend and I were driving back from Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois when we spotted a little mechanized carnival in the small town of Stone Fort. I first heard the term mechanized carnival when I asked why the local 4-H fair no longer had typical rides such as

Discussed in this article: Why Americans Feel More Pain …economic insecurity is associated with more pain. So are discrimination and unhappiness. Pain can lead to depression, causing further pain. “Loneliness strongly predicts the development of pain,” another study found. In effect, chronic pain is tightly woven into the bundle of

A yokel's eye view

+ Photo talk

I’ve been working on a somewhat ambitious story and am trapped in the weeds, which is why I haven’t posted anything for a couple weeks. To remedy that, I’ll show you a few photos. If you follow my Instagram, you’ve probably seen some of them, but

Crouching Tiger vs Everything Everywhere, and a few asides about Me

Some Photo Stuff, Is Nick Cave Evil? Some other random stuff

A few thoughts on racist imagery and a certain film by Spike Lee

To blab or not to blab? This time I blab

Is that really a thing?

Nothing to argue with here

Look at what they do, pay little attention to what they say.

Photograph or Picture of a Thing?

This photo is from the grounds of an old state mental hospital. The hospital used to look like something out of an old horror movie but now it’s been replaced with a modern building and most of the grounds turned into a public park and is typically a cheerful