By Den McHenry

26 May 2026

A bite of nostalgia in which I find a 25 year old echo that constantly resounds.

I'm not sure why this was saved, but one of the many lost sites I made over the years was one called the Omnivorous Iconoclast, which I think I hosted on my personal web space while an undergraduate at UMass way back at the turn of the century. For some reason I have this one post and a very short story saved in an old folder called "HTML Tests." Come to think of it, I likely grabbed those to use like lorem ipsum to test out new ideas.

The name sounds pretty pretentious. I think there was a joke there somewhere, at least partly from an anonymous group I started in high school called the Omnivore Society that posted fliers around school about eating meat, e.g., "Meat: Animals eat it too."

Pretty much everything I said in 2001 is still true, and I still miss Winamp.

15 october 2001. 8:35pm eastern.

Remember the important things that you always forget -- remember to write, to draw, to plan; to sing songs and keep Paul and Chris motivated, if not inspired; to write down your thoughts; redefine yourself -- that's not to say 'remake,' but re-articulate, to shave off whatever has been cluttering or concealing you and to reemerge from the swampy dark.

note to self: winamp3 is a gift from god.

PS: Like the good doctor said, when you get overwhelmed you have a tendency to stick your nose in a book and ignore the world. To walk away, or to become an assiduous soul? There's less the academic in you than the scholar, less the critic than the artist. So then love and be curious, for ennui is, as Oscar said, the only unpardonable sin.