ESSAYS
THE BALCKWELL ARCHIVES
FROM MY OLD WEBSITE
2018
- The End of Cool Times
- I Saw You in That World We Call "Mai Dai," or Blinking Lights (Are How I Forge My Road)
2017
- A Short Dream, About You
- The Only Bacon is a 'Bacon,' The Only Meat is a 'Meat,' The Only Memory is the One We All Forgot, and Eighteen Months of a Watch
- Saizeriya and the Last True Beauty
- Not Quite Themselves, or Humanity's Grand, Ever-Evolving Dash Toward a Brick Wall
- What Makes Conscious Life Such a Wonderful State of Being, or The Apathy of a Goodbye We Forgot to Say
- 'Do You Know "Tayoru?"' – A Conversation with a Chinese Girl on January 9th, 2016
- Four Hot Dogs
- Take My Hand; Take My Whole Life Too, or What The World Calls Love
- Everything Feels So Real, and Then It Doesn't, and Then It Does Again, or This Beautiful Street Would Just Be a Hard and Sad Street For Her
- Lie To Me, While The Earth Will Still Let You, or Teach Us to Slam Dunk Our Basketballs
2016
- My Fun November
- A Confused Fish Eats a Dog, and A Bloody Fish Sees a Cat
- We May Probably Be Happy Forever: The Fictional Anti-Sequel to 'Not For you Baboo'
- A Review of Love, or Not For You Baboo
- As Much a Nantoka as Nantoka: A Retrospective Written Upon the Remembrance of Two Closely Related Events That Occurred Within the Same Week, One Year Ago
- Screaming About The Games We Play, or 'I Can Laugh About It Now But at the Time It Was Terrible
- A Time In Tokyo, or Hold On To That Right Thing
- Football Ruined My Life
- I'm Home – Oh Wait, What's a Home? or An Apple Tea To Go, Please
- Morrissey: An Autobiography
- How I Feel Terrible On the Internet, or Think About Me When You're Sad
- A Review of the Video Game "Super Mario Maker"
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2015
- Outside the Old Normal, Inside The New Normal, or 'This is Where I Buy My Delicious Cakes'
- Between Me And You (Is an Indiana Jones Transition), or Wherever You Go, You Are Yourself
- New Jacket, New Shirt, New Mike – Relatively Old Pants, or The Stor(ag)e (Of My Mind)
- A Night at the Club, or Darkness Seeps In Through The Ears
- This is One: Here We Go
- Here I am: I Am/Was/Am Not Jim/Roy; Let's Move On: Alright, Let's Not Talk About Love, or We're Not Talking About Love Today
- Only In Dreams: A Title Based on That Song By Weezer, or She, With the One Large Earring and the One Small Earring, Eating a Hot Dog
- Tiny Explosions of Memory and Feeling, or How To Create (And Exploit) A Past
- A Library of Vending Machines, or A Museum of Taiko Drums, or The Pain of a Pouring of Tea
- What Chases Me Across the Sea