History

You know what? This explanation is as good as any. Read it to understand the purpose of this site.

As for its name, it's entirely inaccurately cobbled together from the words "masterpiece" (名作) and "chronicle" (記). Hence, the "masterpiece chronicle".

Yes. The tongue is planted firmly in the cheek.

When I do talk about the various projects I neglect to work on, it's best to know where they are.

I have a fiction site called work in progress. Thanks to the wonders of XML, it's easy to maintain technically -- writing the damn content for it is what's hard.

Eponymous 4 is the name of a short-term project I started in 1999. It doesn't have a terribly thrilling premise. But MP3s of the project are available, even from the main page of this site's parent domain.

A Ghost in My Shadow is a collection of songs I wrote over the course of a decade. They're pretty dated, but sometimes I'll listen to them and think, "Hmmm. Not bad."

Quite frankly, this journal is probably the most extreme exercise in self-indulgence. Who the hell cares about drafts to work that I'm years away from publishing anyway? Isn't that just pretentious as all get-out?

Sure. But it's more of an accountability thing for me. Or better yet, it's thinking out loud without actually having to be, well, out loud.

Thank you for indulging.