About Me
My name's Jon and I'm a student of Rob Burton's Multicultural Literature class at Chico State, California.
Recent Entries
Outscourcing: How Can I Screw You Today, Sir?
Globalization is a joke when it’s used to defend outsourcing. In the example of the telecommunications jobs that have been relocated to India, t... read more
WORK, BUY, CONSUME, DIE
There have been countless novels written about the future of our consumer driven world and not many of them have seemed to be a stretch at a... read more
Objects Of Our Imagination
I remember an odd conversation I had with my father a couple years ago about relics and religious symbols. As a protestant father of a protestant fami... read more
Val Gray Ward
When I heard Val Gray Ward was performing in a small exhibit room in the Chico State Campus, I immediately was a little shocked at the potentially int... read more
S%#T HAPPENS!
I can’t relate to the idea of “hyphenation” as Robert terms the idea of cross-culturalism that results from living in one ... read more
TRAVIS AXTON The Peace Corps
Back in high school during my freshman year, I got involved with Young Life. For anyone that isn’t familiar with the organization, Young Life is... read more
What Use Are You?
Friday night sucked balls. Big huge fuzzy balls. It started out with a promise I made to some friends that I hadn’t seen for a while since they... read more
Be True To Who You Make Yourself
When I first moved to Chico I hated it. For a couple years I was pretty positive that choosing to live here was the worst choice I’d made in my ... read more
Relating To The Unframed Mind
Family get-togethers are always interesting, aren’t... read more
Conflict of (Self) Identity
During the summer I had some ink done of a rendition of... read more
