The New Romantics By Dennis Vogen We should have burned the internet down when we had the chance. This is the stupid thought that crosses my mind most frequently these days, but particularly now, as I run through a citrus-colored forest, chased by a nimble mob of people. I shouldn’t have been digging where IContinue reading “The New Romantics”
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Bored Room
August 19th, 2024 I don’t give advice, but there are things I say often that I think are worth saying. I wouldn’t call it wisdom; in fact, they’re just words from an arrogant, not-as-smart-as-he-thinks-he-is asshole (these are all choice words said about me in my own comment section over the years). I can’t help butContinue reading “Bored Room”
F#(% THE ALGORITHM: A Promise
April 22nd, 2024 A video today about a human being just trying to make it in a human being world. #algorithm
Ode to Burnsville Center
April 2nd, 2024 It might be impossible to describe how it felt to be inside the Burnsville Center when I was a kid; what the Mall meant to us who grew up during its height. But I’m going to try. These feelings came up strong today when I took my kid there to burn offContinue reading “Ode to Burnsville Center”
Cold World: Building a house you can live in as is, with doors and stairways to expand up, down, or sideways
June 30th, 2023 Everything about Cold World was, for me, too big to contain in one story — whether I ever decide to write any of those other stories or not. I knew that I wanted to tell a complete, specific tale: this chapter of Calef’s life as he explores the power of understanding, throughContinue reading “Cold World: Building a house you can live in as is, with doors and stairways to expand up, down, or sideways”
Building a Cold World
June 8th, 2023 I am not God, but I do spend a whole lot of damn time creating life. Sometimes I’m constructing the lives of animals, or inventing superheroes with superreal problems, or dreaming up a boy who feels more alive when he sleeps, or designing the future on a planet that never thaws. SoContinue reading “Building a Cold World”
Static Interlude
April 26th, 2023 I’ve been distant. (Don’t act like you noticed. We can only hold 150 people in our heads and I’m not one of them.) Usually when I sit down and type one of these I have a central idea or general theme or, you know, a point. That is not what this is.Continue reading “Static Interlude”
The Visitor! Revisited
February 10th, 2023 I once tried to make a movie. A musical one. About an alien. The other topic this month is Unproduced Work, and I’m going to start with the film that, to be completely honest, kind of broke my weird, little heart. This is The Visitor! By 2011, I had produced a lotContinue reading “The Visitor! Revisited”
A.I. Yi Yi
December 17th, 2022 Exactly zero people have asked me what I think about AI, and I am indignant. This is a post about AI, written by a terribly flawed human being. Most of the responses I have seen to emerging AI technology have come from artists. I’m an artist, too, but I have always identifiedContinue reading “A.I. Yi Yi”
The Den 