added a LISTS page that contains lists of things

new story: BREAK-UP MAN (ふられた男)

new essay: HEAVEN & GOOD THINGS, in which i try to make sense of heaven, mostly via analyzing a Talking Heads song

new essay: IN A TOWN WHERE I AM GOING TO LIVE, in which i talk about visiting a town where i am going to live

IN XANADU: added a new essay about coleridge's "kubla khan" and the rush song "xanadu"

new essay: "A Retreat to the Customs Office" -- i reckon with the repercussions (good or ill) of my continued attempts to emulate herman melville's biography

for those who prefer to read rather than listen: added essay versions of the "Tribulations of a Chinese Man in China," "Dream of the Red Chamber," and "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus" to the BALCKWELL'S BOOKS page