Vacuumboy's Stories and Essays

My entire CREATIVE THESIS is now posted here. Enjoy reading them and let me know what you think.

This page also contains some of my short stories:

Then there are some creative essays, including:

The Power of Trifles

and some critical, scholarly ones, such as:

The Moviegoer

Also I archived some of my old columns which I wrote for Broken Frontier here so check them out.

Column 1--How Many English Teachers Does it Take to Screw in a Lightbulb? (Original pub. date: Feb. 26, 2003)
Column 2--A Plea for Affirmative Action (Original pub. date: March 6, 2003)
Column 3--Guerilla Warfare (Original pub. date: March 13, 2003)
Column 4--The Importance of Being Uncle Elvis (Original pub. date: March 20, 2003)
Column 5--The Effects of Decompression on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Original pub. date: March 27, 2003)
Column 6--Mr. Higgins Builds His Dream Syllabus (Original pub. date: April 4, 2003)
Column 7--Be My Guest part one--The Long Road to Friday (Original pub. date: April 11, 2003)
Column 8--Be My Guest part two--Only Time Will Tell (Original pub. date: April 18, 2003)
Column 9--Your Friendly Neighborhood Comic Shop (Original pub. date: April 25, 2003)
Column 10--We Must Save Ourselves (Original pub. date: May 2, 2003)
Column 11--The Mistakes I Have Made (Original pub. date: May 9, 2003)
Column 12--Resounding Triumphs? (Original pub. date: May 16, 2003)
Column 13--The Student Has Become the Teacher (Original pub. date: May 23, 2003)
Column 14--Behavior Modification (Original pub. date: May 30, 2003)
Column 15--The Android's Dungeon No More (Original pub. date: June 6, 2003)
Column 16--Barnes and Noble meet the Graphic Novel (Original pub. date: June 13, 2003)
Column 17--Symbiosis (Original pub. date: June 27, 2003)
Column 18--Dependence (Original pub. date: July 4, 2003)
Column 19--Niche--Man or Superman (Original pub. date: July 11, 2003)
Column 20--Niche--Beyond Good and Evil (Original pub. date: July 18, 2003)
Column 21--Why I Hate the Ultimate Books (Original pub. date: July 25, 2003)
Column 22--The guide to Comics? (Original pub. date: Aug. 1, 2003)
Column 23--Advocating Advocacy (Original pub. date: Aug. 8, 2003)
Column 24--Revitalized (Original pub. date: Aug 15, 2003)
Column 25--Marryin' the Librarian (Original pub. date: Aug. 22, 2003)
Column 26--The Negative Zone (Original pub. date: Aug. 29, 2003)
Column 27--Truth in Advertising (Original pub. date: Sept. 5, 2003)
Column 28--Flash over Substance (Original pub. date: Sept. 12, 2003)
Column 29--Childhood Lightbulbs (Original pub. date: Sept. 19, 2003)
Column 30--A Call for Papers (Original pub. date: Sept. 26, 2003)
Column 31--St. Louis Comic Art Show (Original pub. date: Oct. 3, 2003)
Column 32--Talking about Sandman (Original pub. date: Oct. 10, 2003)
Column 33--Establishing a Canon (Original pub. date: Oct. 17, 2003)
Column 34--Noteworthy Works (Original pub. date: Oct. 31, 2003)
Column 35--In Memoriam (Original pub. date: Nov. 14, 2003)
Column 36--Optimistic (Original pub. date: Nov. 28, 2003)
Column 37--Advocating Christmas (Original pub. date: Dec. 12, 2003)
Column 38--And the Winner Is... (Original pub. date: Dec. 26, 2003)
Retroflect--Manhunter (Original pub. date: March 22, 2003)

All of the old versions of Advocating Comics are available at Broken Frontier and some of the reviews I did at Grayhaven Online are actually still avaiable as well.

And here's the script for a short film I wrote back in high school called All the Lonely People. Check back often to see what's new, and thanks for stopping by!

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