It’s hard not to see or hear people talking about the upcoming Presidential Election everywhere you go. Though it does get a bit annoying, it’s refreshing to not hear people talking about Kardashians or Kate Middleton’s wedding for a change. If you were hoping that...
By Brandon Kirk
[This is part two of an ongoing narrative based around a single playthrough I did of the Indie game FTL. It's highly abstracted and fictionalized, but it's entirely based on in-game events and situations. It's a fun game. You should play it.]
Dear Diary...
by Brandon Lionel Kirk
[This is the first in a series of posts narrating a single playthrough of the indie game FTL. It's all made up, but entirely based on things that happen in the game. We open on a aspiring young captain, setting off on a vital mission to save the Federation . . . ]
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending (and participating in) the "Laugh"ayette "Fun"stival, a really great comedy spectacular hosting by some friends of mine in Lafayette Indiana. They asked me to participate, and I'm afraid there was a bit of a misunderstanding. (with video!)...
I enjoy riding a bike. They provide cheap transportation (over short distances), they’re fun to work on and maintain, and they’re pretty good excercise. The problem - especially for me - is that they take up a lot of space. I have a 2009 Specialized Secteur, and ...
You may not know this, but I sometimes make music. I mainly just do it for myself, but sometimes other people seem to enjoy it, too. Before you credit me with any talent or ability, you should know that it's all just electronic beeps and boops (0or as my Mom calls it, "Ding ...
The last two and a half weeks have been pretty rough. I’ve been contending with a lot of serious work to do, moving to a new city, and the fact that regularly posting something here is just hard. As a result of all these excuses, the last three weeks have seen so little...
So a lot of talk has been going around about supposed sounds out back and theories about what those sounds were. Sure, we could knock around ideas all day about what we think about this or that sound, but where would that get us? The fact is that there are sounds all the...
Once, when I was a kid, my Dad took me to a gun range. We went with another guy and his kid - their family was sort of friends with my family or whatever. We had an old .22, the other dad had a huge-ass muzzle-loader, and there was some sort of medium-caliber revolver. I don...
Last week I posted a couple letters I received from some strange company called Univox Corporation (What is Univox Corporation?). Well, I found out that they came from my old friend John. I was the subject of some weird prank trying to get me to go to a random address in Chi...
Maybe you've seen some of these silly "spell out things with pictures" items you can get from Skymall or whatever. I didn't think much about them when I've seen them before, but it recently occurred to me that I could be making them and selling them for fat stacks...
Hopefully by now you've looked up your nearest and soonest Color Run and signed up for it on the Color Run website. Please find enclosed additional pictures to make you excited for the cool thing you'll be doing.
A while ago, I received this weird letter in the mail. It was from a company called "Univox Corporation," and it seemed to be hand typed. I had no idea what to make of it, but I just came across it in one of my desk drawers, and I thought I would post it here to share in the...
Somehow my email address was signed up for this “Apartment Guide” newsletter, which basically just sends me random garbage about apartments pretty much every day. I totally don’t need that, since I’m already an apartment expert. Apparently it’s ...
There's this thing called the Color Run. It happens in a bunch of cities all over the country, and just this past weekend it happened in Chicago. It also happens that it's one of the coolest things ever.
It's just a regular old 5k, except that at predetermined locations a...
Welcome to DenyConformity.com, a really interesting website place!
My parents moved to Arcadia, Indiana a few years ago. Every summer, Arcadia has a little festival to kick off the start of summer or whatever. It's no C2E2 - in fact it's kind of the opposite - but it was a chance for me to take a few pictures on a beautiful day.
I call i...
Is there anything that you can’t get on Amazon.com? I don’t think so. The problem now, though, is that it can be pretty hard to find what you’re looking for, because you have to search through a collection of everything that has ever been sold.
Let me...
About five years ago I posted pictures here of some alleyways and dumpsters in West Lafayette, Indiana. For some reason I am fascinated by the secrets hiding behind the scenes in urban areas. Well-kept storefronts and urban planning can spruce up a city street, but it's an a...
I’ve been working on this book for quite a while now, and I’m still very excited about how great it is. However, I’m still waiting on some offers from some movie studios for the film rights. Just let me know when you’re ready to make some fat stacks, movie studios.
Anyway...
I was digging through my pictures folder, and I came across some pictures I took back in '09 when I went to the Field Museum. Some of them are kind of neat, so I figured I would post them here. Don't take this as any sort of sign that I'm running out of content to post here....
