For the last few weeks I have been completing the RPM Deux Challenge. I modified the RPM music challenge, to help my friends and I increase our creative output. I hoped that it would jolt our creative muscles, and translate into more creative work over the…

What follows is a revision (re-visitation) of a piece that I wrote almost two years ago, just after Easter Sunday. It marked my first visit to a church in quite some time. Reading it again reminded me of the value of the spiritual and communal. I decided to revise for selfish reasons—to…

Just do it. Seriously.

Editing my first book (Anzel Nichols’ The Experience) challenged every fiber of my being. Well, sort of. Editing mostly meant drinking a lot of Lipton tea, and glaring at poems on my desktop—removing…

Computer programmers smile widely when you start discussing duck typing. Duck typing, as a method of typing, ignores an element’s type, and focuses only on what the object can do. Put differently, in a system that uses duck typing, the computer checks whether an object can do…

State, in the political sense, refers to organization of power. State, in this sense, refers to the institutions that hold power, and possess the capacity to respond to claims by the polity. In many senses, the modern state possesses the power over life…