For the last 38 days (more than a month, yes, but it doesn’t make the title pop, okay) I’ve been taking Japanese lessons on Duolingo. I’ve always had an interest in the language and culture in Japan and inspiration hit to finally try and learn something. Here, I’m going to […]
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Some Background Websites are awesome, everyone should have one, especially those in the IT world. I bought my first domain name (stufranks.systems… ew) at 17 because I wanted to host some of the guides I’d written as I learned Linux first-hand at my first job. I wrote up a bunch […]
You’ve seen it on videos, at concerts. Sweaty, tattooed youths bashing into each other, spinning around, bodies moving like a violent sea. Gaps in the adoring fans being filled desperately with flesh and energy. The Moshers. I am a mosher, and I would like you to join me on a […]
Its tracing letters in the same sentenceIts screaming the same stupid thing(See You in Vancouver by La Dispute) I remember the first time I heard a “heavy metal” song. I was 13, in secondary school and a friend with long wavy hair pushed his earbud towards my skull. The whirlwind […]
With National Poetry Month arriving in the US and the words of many pouring emotion into pages across the globe every day, I find myself looking in the mirror and asking — am I a poet? By defintion (according to the Oxford Dictionary) a poet is simply “a person who writes poems” […]