Various essays and articles; some academic, some about music, maybe even the occasional personal one.

"The Genetics of Horror: Sex and Racism in H.P. Lovecraft's Fiction" My honours thesis. The footnotes are pretty important; I'd recommend opening a second browser window, scrolling to the bottom and just flipping over to it when necessary, as clicking on the hyperlinks will lose your place in the document.

"Some Lovecraftian Thoughts On Borges' 'There Are More Things'" A brief essay written for The Esoteric Order Of Dagon.

"'That Divine Hatred Of Life': Houellebecq On Lovecraft" An article written for the EOD on Michel Houellebecq's volume on Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft: Against The World, Against Life.

"Musick In Diabola" A brief piece on Rudimentary Peni's Lovecraftian concept album Cacophony, also written for the EOD.

"Prague: Things That Happened Along The Way or There And Back Again" The final "ethnography" project resulting from my field school trip to Prague in 2002.

"Karenin's Smile: Notes Towards Animal Rights Literary Criticism" An essay written in 2002 for a literary criticism class, using "The Sexual Politics Of Meat", "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being" and "Frankenstein" as primary reference points.

"Vinyl Fetish" Article written in 2001 on the current role of vinyl records for SFU's student newspaper, The Peak.

"Alunared: Sound And Fury" Article on Vancouver band Alunared, written in 2001 for The Peak.

"Opiate Of The Masses" Peak article from 1999 dealing with professional wrestling.

"God, Screams And The Silver Screen" Another Peak article, this one from 2000 and dealing with Christian themes in horror movies.

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