About
“Everybody knows what's going on with the world – I don't even know what's going on in myself.”
-Johnson, Matt. The The. “Slow Emotion Replay.” Dusk. Sony, 1993.
Yo, my name is Forrest—yes, that's my real name, two R's and all.
I was once described as “impressively antisocial” and “one of the many talented (and perhaps frustrated) writers out there who is also an alcoholic—or at risk of becoming one” (note that I am teetotal as of June 2024, mostly just to spite the guy who said that). But most importantly, I'm an aspiring essayist and I'm the creator/admin of howdoyouspell.cool and I hate writing quaint little bios about myself and I keep a long list of all my favorite songs right here (in case you were wondering).
I have a strong interest in writing, philosophy, music, fiction, and certain video games; and when I write about these things, I try to mix them with my personal life and/or whatever ethical quandary I happen to be thinking about at the time, to varying degrees of success (usually none, zero success). Also, I hardly ever make qualitative judgments about the things I write about (e.g., reviews or “four out of five stars!” &c.), as I firmly believe that quality is immeasurable without a standard by which to measure it and that everyone's standards are different.
Regardless of whatever series of events led you here, I'm flattered that you were curious enough to click into this About Me at all. The bad news, however, is that there's not much here; you won't learn the contents of my soul from an About Me page. It's simply not possible to condense anyone's essence into a couple of paragraphs in a blog post. So, if you really want to know the contents of my soul, then you're going to have to read everything here—but it still won't be enough to truly know me, because how could you truly know me when I still haven't figured out myself?
HOW TO FOLLOW?
You can keep up with me on your RSS reader of choice by adding this feed link: https://howdoyouspell.cool/forrest/feed/
Some guy (not me!!!) runs a Substack mirror of my work, which you can subscribe to by following this link.
on computer games
on computer games was a gaming blog where I published analyses, short stories, musings, and essays on the highly subjective experience of computer games; all presented in a style reminiscent of “creative writing” covering a range of topics such as philosophy, social issues, nostalgia, and tanuki lore.
I have since republished everything from on computer games to this site, so it now exists as an archive of my early gaming essays.
GAMING PUBLICATIONS:
I wrote, edited, designed, and published an online magazine under the on computer games moniker, both issues are free to download/print by following the links below.
OCGM#2 – Delving Digital Voids
If you happened to read through all this – get yourself checked out, it could be contagious.
(Disclaimer/note: in my non-fiction essays, nearly all instances of the pronoun “you” refer to myself, not you—the reader—unless specifically notated otherwise [typically in the same way as just 11 words ago: you em-dash the reader em-dash].)
Again, get yourself checked out.
