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Why do I write? Elie Wiesel asked that question once. His answer was that he wrote to free himself somewhat of his nightmares. I have no excuse for such nightmares, but a much more subtle ‘night’ surrounds me, everything is so dark, details obscured; it feels safe, yes, but I am never quite enlightened enough…
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We live in a world where a stolen credit card number can wreck your day by grinding everything to a halt. The worst part is that it’s often not clear how certain key information is leaked and even if the cause eventually is discovered it’s far too long after the fact to trace its original…
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Savannah Brown just blows my mind. I also ordered five of Savannah’s books. A couple were only sold from London so I’d rather buy those brand new. If her books are as amazing as her video essays, then damn. I’m having such a horrible autism day. But I can pay attention to Livie and Fionn…
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I finally gave this album a proper listen. The whole thing is pretty good, although I only added “Tell Me When You’ve Had Enough” and “Who Will You Follow” to my regular rotation. I love this bit from Evanescence’s “How Do I Heal?” “No matter how we changeEchoes of us remainUntouched by timeIn my mind”…
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For many years, I’ve been chasing potential, and I’ve learned the hard way that sometimes you just have to meet people where they’re at. And unfortunately, I’ve never been particularly good at meeting people where they’re at because I am so consistently ensconced in the concept of what they could be or what I perceive…
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This is why I’m still here. Every single time I hear begged I break down sobbing. No song has ever touched me like this. Just like Tegan and Sara’s “Hell” saved my life back in 2009 after I got thrown out of college, Katy Perry’s “Part of Me” kept me going as I tried to…
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The documentarian nature of my writing of the past few years, an intentional practice I started in order to reorganize my entire process around the mundane facts of my second, perhaps third, chance at life, has begun to bear fruit. I still don’t see the big picture but I was nudged yet again by the…
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“radicalized by the realization that in many Intellectual™ circles it’s higher status to know a lot about a domain than it is to actually do something in that domain” – charm https://www.x.com/charmcgi/status/2065952438734213396 Yup, that’s the college mentality. Absolutely correct, charm. … There was a whole PDF I needed to steal for my archive: https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/centers/boisi/pdf/s091/Welcome_address_to_freshman_at_Boston_Conservatory.pdf ……
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AWESOME STORY! This is one of my favorite Pokemon episodes BTW. Kinda makes more sense to me why that is now. Sad ending for an amazing voice actress… passed away from an untreated stomach virus (we all know why that was untreated…) … Beautiful stuff from the wife. “Sometimes the real purpose of returning home…
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Based interview… This Olivia girl’s music knowledge is incredible. I should learn more about her… Love these lines: “All blind mice resign / you gotta hood shine analyze / seats alive vinyl thighs” – “Sweet ‘69,” Babes in Toyland “You see the stars through eyes lit up with liesYou got your stories all twisted up…
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This is amazing: The Ultimate James Bond Medley – Every song from the 25 movies including No Time To Die! … I have a really interesting essay idea… about ideas and their execution, in this case, looking at the Star Wars prequels (which had a lot to say) vs the sequels (cash grabs that had…
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July 1st 2024 …[other than] reading the brain vomit of old geezers, what am I going to do with these notebooks going forward? For the most part, I want to use this space as an opportunity to save ideas from old essays that need to be scrapped and rewritten anyway. [Even if] I’m not motivated…
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June 2, 2024 On Kicking the Nostalgia Bug: I’m much more interested at this point in understanding the history and the origins of things we’ve come to cherish so dearly. It’s not that I want to eliminate guilty pleasures, at least not entirely. After all we do only have one life to live, and if…
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‘Religion is an Ever-Receding Pocket of Scientific Ignorance’ | Neil deGrasse Tyson I gave up on faith. I prefer having high, high hopes for a living. A few notes from this video: “The measure of whether you learn something is not whether it was obviously true to you upon first glance.” Neil Degrasse Tyson Eyewitness…
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April 2, 2024 I actually logged in to WordPress and found a couple of legit comments that somehow completely escaped my attention for several days… Thanks stupid Jetpack nonsense. One was from Jeff Cann who said: “In my 11 years of blogging, I’ve alternately craved becoming one of those viral bloggers making a career (or…
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March 12, 2024 RJ’s video on the brand new stable Gleam programming language got me thinking… I commented : “I wonder how many programming languages are born every day and how many actually reach the stable stage. It’s dizzying how many even stable languages exist, but what I always wonder is what languages are best…
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This is from March 5, 2024, but deserved to be revisited today. RJ had an amazing video today about some of his favorite aphorisms. My Top Five – Personal Aphorisms (And Their Origins) by The Flourishing One of them is “Will X thank me for Y?” People tend to have many self-destructive habits and recognizing…