One of the things I've said a couple times is that while I don't consider 'modern art' art in itself, I have a special love for it. Maybe it's the [...]
Early in his career, a promising actor named Frank James Cooper considered changing his name thanks to the suggestion of his agent. “Your name ‘Frank Cooper’ sounds too… common. should b… (keep reading)
My good friend and storytelling ninja Eddy Quan posted a question on X: “Fell into a bad habit of reading the news again thanks to my Twitter timeline. Started to [...]
There are so many ways I can answer that question, but I have to start somewhere. Being self exiled because of political prosecution in my own country, radicalized me. Watching [...]
Memories from school that I could consider pleasant or barely tolerable are few and far between, but one thing that kept me sane was drawing. From giant mecha robots with [...]
I stumbled upon a funny meme on X that showed some old first person shooter screenshots and a reflexive man, looking into the distance. The caption: “Man Still Chasing That [...]
"All of you, relax. This is a matter of inconvenient timing. That’s all. Police action was inevitable. And as it happens… necessary. So let them fumble about outside, and stay [...]
One hot Italian summer, Verdi rented a large cottage to write music during the holidays. Days after arriving, he got one visitor who was taken aback by the fact that [...]
Sometimes, the most interesting lessons I’ve learned have come from the oddest situations. Like the time I boarded a bus to leave Caracas, where I was taking an IELTS test, [...]
There's an anecdote involving Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner about writing, in which the latter scoffed at Hemingway’s style as unsophisticated. His words were: “(Hemingway) has never been known to [...]