This is a poem I wrote for Mary Leen's undergraduate creative writing poetry course at Illinois State University in 1992. It was published in Druid's Cave: A Journal of the Creative Arts (1993). Druid's Cave was later renamed Euphemism, thankfully.
This is a poem I wrote in 2014. It's part of a larger collection of poetry of mine which is titled Thaw Zen.
This poem, also from Thaw Zen, was published in the OBERON Poetry Twelfth Annual Issue (2014).

This is a piece of fiction that I wrote for Curtis White's undergraduate creative writing fiction course at ISU circa 1993. The present state of the local rock band meets itself.
Originally written for Curtis White's undergraduate creative writing fiction course, parts of this were published in Druid's Cave 1994. The near future evolution of religion meets interdimensional life. It's partly an homage to the work of author and mathematician Rudy Rucker.
I wrote this for David Foster Wallace's graduate fiction writing course in early 1994 at ISU, just as "the internet"—at the time meaning simply telnet and gopher—was entering the scene. The near future evolution of technology meets its psychological limits.

I wrote this essay for and was fortunately randomly picked to read it at NPR Illinois Stink Bug Night in 2019. The night's theme for a five-minute story was "Life and/or Death".
This is an essay I wrote in 2013 on matters of fruit, comedy, and language. The above picture was taken of me in 2018 when I read it at the Sherman Illinois Public Library once. Fortunately, I was not pelted with anything.
I wrote this as my final paper for William McBride's graduate Film Studies course at ISU in 1994. It's a frame-by-frame analysis of repressed gay male fantasies which are fleshed out through cinematic violence and play in the 1967 film The Incident.
Here is an essay, originally for William C. Woodson's Introduction to English Graduate Studies course at ISU, regarding W. H. Auden's 1940 satirical poem "The Unknown Citizen", which is a sort of epitaph for the modern worker as told through uncaring descriptions by government organizations. I posit stuff, mainly from a post-structuralist perspective.
In this essay for Tom Foster's graduate-level Cultural Studies course at ISU, I argue that John Fiske's concept of the culture industry in his book Understanding Popular Culture should be revised to allow for consumers to also be producers, in effect.

These are a few rather adult-themed fictional extrapolations from some of the LEGO packaging boxes I've encountered.
Here are a number of fictional news updates I originally composed for The Alleged Show. I've updated and enhanced them for the web, as per the custom of my kind.
Not to be confused with Drake the celebrity, the Drake Equation is not a person at all. Rather, it is a mathematical equation written in 1961 by Dr. Frank Drake in an attempt to give scientists a fresh starting point at the first scientific meeting on the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life (SETI). This is about my minor modification of that equation.
'Nuff said. Or maybe not. There's a first time for everything. I go into details.