Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 12

Detergent For The Mind

On escapism, imagination, and what we are really all trying to get away from.

Well, That Escalated Quickly

Looks like my video channel has started to take off, and for unexpected reasons.

Dreaming Wrong

We got cyberpunk for real in the worst possible way: with all the drab, and without the flying cars. Were we��wrong to dream?

All Right, What's Next?

I'm most done with a work when there's nothing left to add, or take from, the "fix in next draft" file.

On Seeing What Is Not There

Making original things requires some sense of what's not there.

The Happiest Days Of Our Lives, And Other Misconceptions

All of the transformative stuff in my life was when I gave myself permission to interrogate my own unquestioned desires.

Will No One Rid Me Of These Accursed Labels?

Labels and marketing are not everything. We just let ourselves think they're everything, and we do it too readily for our own good.

The Race To The Bottom

On why music (and other creations) are too easy to make and consume.

Good Clean Fun

The legacy of the PG-13 rating gives much to consider over how American mainstream culture grew meeker about sex and far more blas�� about violence.

This Year's Models (And Next Year's)

Among all the other projects I've made for myself, I have a new one: a slight reformat of the print editions of my books.