Fixity Of Character
To an extent, one can make up for the absence of strength of character with fixity of character.
Crabwork
I am currently in the process of adding back the entries from the past to this website — slowly working my way backwards from the present. As such, if you’re interested, feel free to browse previous months as the entries from those months get placed back online. As of this moment, all of the entries [...]
Fortune Cookies
The difference between a fortune cookie and an aphorism is the difference between a butter knife and a razorblade.
Today’s Poorly Written Prose
I truly hate those fools who converge several words into a moronic sentence and assume that everyone else believes it to be sophisticated. Today’s example of poorly written prose is a rather special one because of its high irony factor: the author, while denouncing pretentious writers, succeeds in exemplifying the essential fault of all pretentious [...]
To Break A Heart
I hate to break anyone’s heart. I hate the experience so much, in fact, that I often spend a great deal of time putting off doing it, trying, obstensibly, to come up with the best means for doing it, but also, in reality, simply trying to avoid the moment of anxiety when I have to [...]
Confounding Integrity With Inability
One of the things I find most frustrating about those in the underground — be it in the underground music scene, writing scene or visual art scene — is that one so often finds what seems to be an assumption (really, a presumption) that everything with integrity has to fail and has to be “rough”. [...]
A Crush On You.com
In late September, I got an email from A Crush On You.com telling me, Dear jmw@johnmyleswhite.com, Someone has registered that they have a crush on you! To find out who click here: http://www.acrushonyou.com With Love, The Crush Mistress I never found out the source, as you have to sign up for the service to be [...]