July 8th, 2024 What if we encouraged children to be kind and caring instead of conditioning them to be shrewd business-people? I thought about this as we drove past a 50-cent lemonade stand the other day. I can usually have good conversations and constructive arguments with people, except when they’ve been brainwashed about a fewContinue reading “Milk Milk Lemonade”
Author Archives: dennisvogen
Two Sentences To Keep My Head Above Water
June 27th, 2024 This year, and for the past month specifically, it’s been hard for me to write stuff. Not my fiction stuff. That stuff is going strong. I’m in my vampire era and loving it. No, I’m talking about the real stuff I write here on the internet. I’m not treading water; I’m doggyContinue reading “Two Sentences To Keep My Head Above Water”
The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind
June 14th, 2024 It’s both alarming and comforting that the way we act on the internet isn’t anything new, if you look into the history of humanity at all. I watched the epic Bob Dylan documentary No Direction Home from 2005 on PBS this afternoon. (“Epic” as in I watched all three-and-a-half hours of itContinue reading “The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind”
Summer ’95
June 10th, 2024 I heard Seal’s “Kiss From A Rose” this morning while running errands and I was taken straight back to the summer of 1995. As I considered my own power, my pleasure, my pain, I daydreamt about what I would be doing then. I had just turned ten years old. I would probablyContinue reading “Summer ’95”
phony
June 10th, 2024 Last week, some guy called me a phony. The details don’t matter. Personally, I feel like his assessment was incomplete and under-researched, a woefully short-sighted review. But it’s funny how certain words and sentiments can get to us, so deep under our skin we can’t scratch it, regardless of whether the personContinue reading “phony”
JOJO’S TIME MACHINE UNBOXING + COLLECTOR’S SET REVEAL + OTHERWORLDLY OUT TODAY!!
May 31st, 2024 Yo, today is a big one, watch the video, you won’t be disappointed. The main points:
Beholder
May 31st, 2024 Today is my mom’s birthday. There are so many beautiful photos of her and this is one of them. I was young when she woke up one day and half of her face was unresponsive; it was during or shortly after she was pregnant with one of my youngest sisters. For her,Continue reading “Beholder”
A Fool of One’s Own Making
May 29th, 2024 The only skill I have purposefully developed over the years as a writer is the ability to come up with some happy unhappy answers to life’s big questions. In previous essays, I’ve attacked philosophy and called it stupid (I stand by it), I’ve expressed my love for philosophy and its colorful castContinue reading “A Fool of One’s Own Making”
Silent Lambs
May 23rd, 2024 Despite common belief and evidence to the contrary, I don’t like to write political pieces. In fact, very little of what I’ve written would I consider actually political; most of our arguments and lines of division today come from cultural and moral differences, that get repackaged as shiny political keys by thoseContinue reading “Silent Lambs”
SpringCon 2024
May 18th, 2024 I love my friends in the creative community so much. Cheers to a successful SpringCon, and a big thank you to Jen and the MNCBA and all the volunteers for today’s excellent event experience and for the vibe, especially. The vibe was good. The quality of conversation and friendship was exceptional; thereContinue reading “SpringCon 2024”
The Den 