In the winter of 2003, I learned what it feels like to have Christmas arrive without you. I was going through a rough patch, living with a roommate in Tennessee, trying to navigate a version of adulthood I never wanted to experience. December rolled in with its usual glow, but I felt detached from all of it. The lights in town looked beautiful, sure, but inside, everything felt dim and slightly out of reach. I ended up flying to Montana that Christmas to see my family. I hope

Why We Keep Inventing Spiritual Agendas in Pop Culture Every few weeks online, I see a familiar pattern repeat itself. Someone points at “Hollywood” and declares it’s being run by something. An agenda, a machine, a shadow network — usually unnamed, rarely evidenced, always ominous. The blank changes depending on who’s speaking. Satanists. Globalists. Wokeness. Freemasons. The Catholic Church. Take your pick. Hollywood, apparently, is a very busy puppet show. What’s interestin

Of course we are. The question keeps circling back because the thing itself isn’t settling down. AI isn’t some distant horizon anymore. It’s already part of our everyday creative landscape, nestled into the software we open without thinking: Microsoft Word suggests rewrites while you type, Photoshop fills in the gaps you never bothered to mask, and every DAW from Pro Tools to Presonus to Cubase now arrives with built-in tools that lean on machine learning to clean tracks, fix

Lately, I’ve been trying to define the path I’m on. A spiritual current that flows somewhere between faith and philosophy, between scripture and starlight. The truth is, I think I’ve always been here. I’ve always been drawn to both theology and metaphysics. One reaches for meaning, the other for mechanism. Together, they form a strange intersection where prayer and physics shake hands. I used to think I had to choose one over the other, but lately, I’m realizing that the trut

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