the Foxy Muppet

I have been thinking about life a lot lately. My life, loss of life, the purpose of life, the afterlife. I have had a near death experience, but until recently I had been spending all of this time thinking about death rather than life. It was the events in Orlando's Pulse Nightclub that triggered thoughts about life for me, and every act of violence since has only made me more aware of the degraded state of our world. In thinking about life, I find myself understanding more about the world around me and other people's imagination. I now better understand how different styles of art and music came to be, how to experience and savor different emotions, and how to be the person I want to be in this world. Patrick Wolf's song "Accident and Emergency" reminds me very much of what I have been going through as a person and has become an anthem for this reason. The most beautiful part of this is how much like a child Patrick Wolf is, which is precisely what I intend to sh...

I spent my childhood split between small towns in America, specifically Oregon. I was born in Southern Oregon and lived in a mobile home park until I was 6, at which time my family moved to the Northwest Coast. These towns always made huge festivals out of the 4th of July, bigger in some ways than any other "National" holiday. In Southern Oregon, these spectacles were closely followed in scale by Memorial Day parades. People came out in droves to show their support for this country, and on the coast there were plenty of late night parties with expensive food, cheap beer, and fireworks over the ocean. My parents flew an American flag that was supported by a flag holder on our porch. For many years this meant it was right outside my window.