Tag: research

  • Field trip

    The next few installments of Everything Falls Apart have already been written and I am still working on the framing of multiple other episodes.

    I say this only because some of it will seem to be mirroring the field trip I am taking tomorrow and it would be easy to say, “Oh well, Michael is just writing about his field trip on Saturday in this episode.”

    Actually, it is the other way around, as I am doing the field trip to get boots on the ground research done for my story instead of relying on my shaky memory of what the modern-day scene is like in downtown Minneapolis.

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  • For better or worse

    standing stones
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    The old notes I found have gotten my thoughts pointing back in the direction of those kinds of studies again. This is probably obvious to some of you. While it can be difficult to find reliable, scholarly texts on the matter, I find that I learn something new almost every time I read the few texts out there that are supported by scholarship. And there is always those untapped journal articles out there that are less about meeting sales quotas than they are about serious scholarship.

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  • Half-penny Thoughts | 12aug25

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    I’ll admit it: I’ve been binging The Walking Dead again.

    If I want to pretend to be an intellectual, I’d say it was research into human nature in the face of an apocalypse. I have not recently seen evidence in real life that suggests that people will act differently than their fictional counterparts if they were faced with a zombie (or any kind of, really) apocalypse. Zombies in TWD might be the overt threat, but the real monsters are other people. The Witcher games and books, fantasy tales about a “monster hunter” mutant named Geralt of Rivia play the same tune. Horrifying creatures are a real threat, but the true monsters are us.

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