There's no real logical reason for the Soapbox -- it doesn't bother to explain itself, yet it exists nonetheless, following its own internal logic and ignoring the opinions of the outside world. Sort of like the electoral college.

Here you'll find these personal rantings only available on operative.net, kind of an evil blog of sorts, chronicled by idiosyncratic names and saved by date for your pleasure.

NOTE: Looking for essays about Hannibal's divorce experience? They've all been moved here, to clear up some space. Same thing for the comic book reviews.

• Culture: The Devil You Know
  (12/17/00 -- not sympathy for the devil, but maybe just bad press)
• Meta: Notes from the Other Side
  (8/26/01-9/19/02, pre-re-design madness)
• Personal: Drops of Jupiter
  (11/11/02-11/25/02, nothing specific)
• Personal: Hanging By A Moment
  (11/27/02, a workplace lament)
• Personal: The Greatest Story Ever Hula-ed!
  (12/5/02-12/10/02, moodiness, productivity and other frozen thoughts)
• Personal: Vengeance Unlimited
  (12/18/02 -- rainy days, bad moods and misanthropy)
• Personal: Fever In The Morning, Fever All Through The Night
  (12/30/02 -- What happens when a brain boils? There's nowhere else you can find out ...)
• Comix: The Smackdown Awards 2002
  (12/31/02, the second annual installment of my views on a year of comic books)
• Personal: Break On Through To The Other Side
  (1/2/03, The first steps into the undiscovered country of a "new" year)
• Personal: Rain Falls From Concrete Colored Skies
  (1/9/03, Distressed mumblings and what-have-you)
• Personal: Danke Schoen, Darling, Danke Schoen ...
  (1/17/03, Where AOL fires me, and I'm OK with that)
• Personal: Older
  (1/20/03, Hannibal Tabu turns 30, world stubbornly refuses to end)
• Lifestyle: Saucy
  (1/24/03, A tale of tobasco and trepidation)
• Personal: The Cathedral of Chalesm
  (1/27/03, A mad potpourri -- Super Bowl XXXVII, late night TV, karaoke, pie and rumors of pie)
• Personal: Lust For Life
  (2/3/03, The first comic book proposal out the door, anniversaries and the question "why?")
• Personal: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
  (2/8/03-2/12/03, Rain, Hannibal gets fired again, HT vs. Ebert and few actual confessions)
• Lifestyle: Hopeful Romantic
  (2/14/03, Sitting there all alone on Valentine's Day)
• Personal: Waiting For That Day
  (2/16/03, Apologies to George Michael, reflections, maturing and old friends long gone)
• Personal: Pie, Glorious Pie!
  (2/21-22/03, Jacko, writing updates, the karaoke cult, strip clubs, good pals and crazy times)
• Meta: What the ...
  (2/26/03, The breakdown of the new sensation)
• Lifestyle: Sexcrimes
  (2/26/03, Drunken females and the guys who tolerate them ... barely)
• Personal: Blah Blah Blah
  (2/26/03, Donuts, deep thoughts and instruments of justice)
• Personal: Write Now
  (2/28/03, Black History Month ends silently with long talks and the love of words)
• Comix: The Badge Blurs The Line
  (3/3/03, Dragnet gets inside your head)
• Sport: ... but ain't that America?
  (3/3/03, Toni Smith takes a stand, so get over it)
• Comix: The Buy Pile (March 5, 2003)
  (3/5/03, Alias, Savage Dragon, Star Wars: Empire, Firebreather, et cetera)
• Personal: Never Miss What You Never Had, Part 1: ... sisters ...
  (3/9/03, My father had three other children ...)
• Politics: Empire
  (3/18/03, On the eve of war, Hannibal remembers that plus le change, plus le meme chose)
• Personal: Hunting Sunshine
  (3/20/03, After debauchery and darkness, finding illumination and tranquility)
• Lifestyle: Hatred, Passion & Infidelity
  (3/31/03, Feeling good about feeling bad about attacking an unwitting dupe)
• Lifestyle: The Church of Recurrent Tragedy
  (4/1/03, More tales of the stupid with juvenile chest puffing and poor decision making skills)
• Personal: Bring Me To Life
  (4/7/03, Talk about TV, music, writing and the typical strangled cries for help)
• Personal: Twirling Towards Freedom
  (4/30/03, Doing forensics on a broken heart to answer, "what if love isn't enough?")
• Comix: The Discovery Channel
  (7/21/03, Hannibal's lyrical report on Comic-Con 2003)
• Meta: Overkill
  (9/3/03, When you don't talk for a while, all kinds of stuff builds up)
• Politics: Unthinkable
  (9/10/03, Some sacrifices are too much, but you still have to live with not making them)
• Meta: Challengers of the Unknown
  (10/7/03, Karaoke, broken things, new ventures, publicity and madness)
• Comix: Down with the King
  (10/12/03, The quiet toppling of Marvel's Bill Jemas)
• Personal: People Everyday
  (10/20/03, South Los Angeles, triumph to tragedy, grocery strikes to blocked parking spots)
• Meta: I'm So Excited
  (11/5/03, Home improvement, qualifying for a karaoke contest, and happy thoughts)
• Culture: Matriculation
  (11/6/03, Thoughts and conclusions springing from The Matrix Revolution)
• Personal: What The Hook Gon' Be?
  (11/11/03, A graphical examination of a mood swing)
• Meta: Good Times, Good Times ...
  (12/3/03, Stream of consciousness blogrolling about everything from video games to finance)
• Culture: ... and to all a good night
  (12/8/03, Teflon, napalm, homicide scenes ... these are a few of my favorite things)
• Meta: Almost Done
  (12/26/03, Outkast, Red Forman, Kwanzaa, karaoke hosting and other year end musings)
• Personal: Older 2004
  (1/20/04/04, Hannibal turns 31 ... and that's okay, after all)
• Meta: Moving Day
  (1/28/04, No comics reviews this week? You've got five jobs? Huh?)
• Lifestyle: Everybody Loves Porn
  (2/2/04, Insecurity, scantily-clad supermodels, football and fun on Super Bowl weekend)
• Personal: I'm Here To Sing
  (2/10/04, Hannibal Tabu vs. Boardwalk 11, the final round)
• Meta: The Desperate Burden of Freedom
  (2/18/04, Singing, regret, Kathy Ireland, turkey burgers, relationships and bean pie)
• Meta: Complexion
  (2/29/04, Accepting changes and ranting madly)
• Personal: Moving Violations
  (3/2/04, Ow, you hit my car, you bastard!)
• Personal: Lost in Translation
  (3/10/04, Cinema means depression, music brings cheer, can you hear me now?)
• Lifestyle: Spinning Glories of Everyday Life
  (3/26/04, Feeling gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life)
• Meta: Rainy Dayz
  (4/5/04, Covering a lot, from the lies of insurance companies to the sounds of software)
• Personal: The Spiral
  (4/20/04, Nothing like a run in with the constabulary to set off a cascade of crummy)
• Meta: Lazy Susan
  (4/21/04, All over the map, from flirting to politics to TV to Tetris in a pastiche of topics)
• Personal: Son of a Gun
  (4/26/04, Finding a way out of a bad situation, even when people posit crazy ideas like "hope")
• Meta: The Rundown
  (4/28/04, Free hardware, Mamma Mia, surprise compliments, bad business and vexing females)
• Personal: The Gospel of Lex Luthor
  (5/8/04, Strange days indeed when a bald white actor can show me the way ...)
• Meta: The Calling
  (5/18/04, bad news, good times, hard decisions, fantasy basketball and one slow download)
• Personal: Standing Still
  (5/22/04, Dammit, you hit my car too? Argh! The snowball keeps rolling down the hill ...)
• News: Talk Show for May 25, 2004
  (5/25/04, A new approach -- bullet point blogging, cutting to the chase, seeing how it goes)
• News: Talk Show for June 2, 2004
  (5/25/04, More bullet point blogging about health, wealth and knowledge of self)
• News: Talk Show for June 7, 2004
  (6/7/04/04, Dumb people, being happy, software, country sampling and more)
• News: Talk Show for June 16, 2004
  (6/16/04, Crime and no punishment, my laziness kicking me in the ass again)
• News: Talk Show for June 21, 2004
  (6/21/04, The ex-wife strikes back, jazz makes me lonely and a new poem)
• News: Talk Show for June 27, 2004
  (6/27/04, Auction madness, dodging Virgos, creative productivity and some good movies)
• News: Talk Show for July 1, 2004
  (7/1/04, Illuminating talk about a new car and old flames, with other stuff thrown in)
• News: Talk Show for July 6, 2004
  (7/6/04, Money problems, digital music, SDCC looming and a dog smell that won't go away)
• Meta: Cold Comforts
  (7/7/04, Tough love for aspiring writers and relatives, plus dancing diplomats)
• News: Talk Show for July 12, 2004
  (7/12/04, disappointments, violence, midget bowling, lunch with the mayor and more)
• News: Talk Show for July 15, 2004
  (7/15/04, No more Weezie, the cost of getting legal, a lot of songs and not much money)
• Personal: A Tall Tale for the Short Term
  (7/19/04, Poisoned yesterdays can't ruin joy today if I keep finding glory in the dying of heroes)
• Comix: Radio Silence
  (7/22/04, Before disappearing, I fire some warning shots on my way to San Diego '04 ...)
• Comix: The Wrath of 'Con
  (7/29/04, One mile across, I travel and find a prouder and bolder San Diego Comicon)
• Meta: Fortune Passes Everywhere
  (7/29/04, Elections, music, surprise bargains, fanmail, Shyamalan and more)
• News: Talk Show for August 8, 2004
  (8/8/04, Bullet point blog on belief, fans, law, music and hauntings)
• News: Talk Show for August 13, 2004
  (8/13/04, Late taxes, rumors of change, strange dreams, corrections and a dead legend)
• News: Talk Show for August 23, 2004
  (8/23/04, Technobabble leads the way as I fight optimism, lameness, and delusions)
• News: Revenge of the Sith
  (9/2/04, The Talk Show blog format breaks out as I talk about being Even Stevens)
• News: No Matter
  (9/14/04, My ex-wife and my good friend, why I don't care, and much, much more ...)
• News: Whimsical Stalker Music
  (9/21/04, A big bundle o' blog on the twenty first day of September)
• Politics: Unmitigated Gall
  (9/25/04, California asks its first citizens to pay for their own oppression)
• Personal: Survivor
  (9/30/04, Reminder 7,293,293,347: Other people are bad, and only loved ones can betray)
• News: Everything is Everything
  (10/24/04, Another blog-a-rific blast on a wide variety of topics including romance, TV and fine dining)
• Politics: The Cassandra Complex
  (11/1/04, My election day picks and some wishful thinking)
• News: Ineffable
  (11/22/04, Big bag o' blog on everything from society to comics, the dead to the delighted)
• News: The Scientist
  (12/21/04, After a blog-free month, back in the saddle for storytime and general glee)
• Personal: Bursting Through
  (1/3/05, A contemplative piece on where I am at the start of a new year)
• Personal: Older 2005
  (1/20/05, Somehow we all made it, one more time around the sun)
• News: Rise and Fall
  (1/25/05, Bullet point blogging for on everything under the pie, from publishing and passing away)
• News: Criminal Intent
  (2/18/05, Short but to the point as I keep moving through missed deadlines and movie scripts)
• Culture: Rites of Passage
  (2/24/05, After being asked to do a presentation, I came home and typed up notes of what happened)
• News: Collective Bargaining Bouillabaisse
  (2/24/05, Hunter Thompson's dead, sports goes nuts, I give a lecture and can't type the title of this ...)
• News: It's Spring Again
  (3/24/05, Gone a month, i want Terry Schiavo to die, went to a 'con, and thought about stuff)
• News: Even Stevens
  (4/1/05, No joking around about marriages, faith, music, balance and more)
• News: Crusaders
  (4/14/05, Deciding to be Pope, reality shows, video games, sleepless nights and zealotry)
• Personal: The Reason
  (4/18/05, Story time: three cautionary tales about the "why" behind people's problems)
• Music: Kurt Loder
  (4/18/05, Inaugurating music news with new shows for me and weird songs for everybody)
• News: Boulevard of Broken Dreams
  (5/10/05, More holy wars, reality show horrors, a $10 jar of shea butter and the danger of hope)
• News: Complicated
  (5/29/05, The cranky pants are kinda tight as I curse out the TV and rant endlessly)
• Culture: ... at last ...
  (5/31/05, Closing the circle with Star Wars as the Sith exact their revenge)
• Culture: It's Gonna Be An All-Out War
  (12/26/05, Promoted to a lieutenant in the war on Christmas, I take on Bill O'Reilly with no-holds barred)
• Personal: Older 2006
  (1/20/05, Accepting lack, seeing improvement, enjoying simple pleasures and being thankful for what I've got)