MOST RECENT ESSAY
Death Stranding
"What this all boils down to is this: Death Stranding is a game about hiking across Iceland with a comically large backpack. The invention of mechanical exoskeletons allows Sam to carry up to 270kg on his back, which is almost as much as my dad claims to have carried halfway up Mt. Garibaldi when he was my age..."
RECENT UPDATES
- 11/01: Death Stranding in Essays
- 10/13: A Long Vacation in Essays
- 10/04: Released my second novel Pierre & The Ambiguities and created the Novels page.
- 09/30: Philip K Dick Overview in Features
- 09/24: In Search of Enchanted Images in Essays
- 09/16: Journeying East in Essays
- 08/31: Communication Technologies & Compulsive Behaviour: A Personal Analysis in Essays
- 08/21: Hermann Hesse Overview in Features
- 08/19: My Friend Who Died in Essays
- 08/03: Personality and Self in Essays
- 07/21: Day 4 of the Mid-June Journal Vol 2
- 06/03: Trapped in Costco in Essays
BEST OF BALCKWELL
Personal
- The Weather Is Going to Get Cold Soon...
- Can I Ride Upon A Cloud?
- Being Hit With A Stick
- Heaven & Good Things
- In a Town Where I Am Going To Live
- A Retreat to the Customs Office
- What More Could You Ask For?
- Hello, Japan. Goodbye, My Japan (RAINICHI 2023 #-001)
- Reach Out to the Truth of My Life (Part One) (Part Two)
- When Conversation is Impossible
- The Graveyard Story
- You Can (Not) Go Back
- What The Hell Am I Doing Here?
- The Internet Made Me Stupid
- Irreconcilable Distances, Permeable Boundaries, Overlapping Memories
"Criticism"
- Apolitical Borges
- In The Eyes of the Unfathomable Deity
- Call Him Ishmael
- A Dream of Red Mansions
(Dream of the Red Chamber), Cao Xueqin - By Hook or By Crook: A Hater's Quest to Enjoy Shakespeare
- Demian, Herman Hesse
- Frankenstein, or
the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelling - A Brief Introduction: Pierre, or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
- Kafka’s Nightmares
- In Xanadu
- The Boy and the Heron
- The Daikon Farmer Points the Way, With a Daikon
- Neil Young's Mesoamerica