~Octopussy~ ⋅ 40
Just an American living Bangkok and writing about all the inappropriate things that I somehow get roped into joining... I've been writing in blogs since 1999, so I'm fairly inconsistent. Sometimes I write a lot, sometimes I have nothing to say for months at a time, but I'm never gone, so just be patient and something new will come around.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time
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I still haven’t even prepared my remarks for the funeral on Saturday, but I know myself well enough as a public speaker to know that something will come to me the moment I begin the journey to th...
I’m sorry I haven’t written in quite a long time, but I went a little insane. My other grandfather died just a week and a half after the previous one. Unlike the first one, I was rather close to ...
There was some question regarding my statement in the last entry that I felt I couldn’t date someone outside of my race. I should have known better than to throw out that question so flippantly b...
Damages in The Stuff That's Not Interesting But Is The Most Interesting Stuff I'll Write
I wrote recently on another blog about how I discovered I was part of this group of friends that I didn’t realize I had. Literally, the next day, I had a rude awakening regarding my friendship wi...
Someone recently asked me why I don’t get along with my mother. The answer is simple, but the reasons behind the answer are extremely complicated. The reason I know it’s both is because I was rec...
No One in The Stuff That's Not Interesting But Is The Most Interesting Stuff I'll Write
Today was the funeral. My mother sang, my stepfather gave the eulogy and my grandfather was the pastor of the ceremony. I think that might be why I have such a strange perspective on death. I’ve ...
Everything all around me is going pretty terribly right now… and I couldn’t feel better. I know that sounds really bad but I feel good to have a grip on everything right now. The death of my gran...
A Lesson After Dying in Things That I'm Grateful For
My grandfather died this morning. Don’t get too excited, it wasn’t the one we’ve been praying will die for ages, it was another of my grandfathers. (I have 3 remaining grandfathers and only one g...
Destiny Rules by Fleetwood Mac in The Song Remembers When
If you’ve read my entries for any length of time, you’ve probably come across this. Destiny Rules is more than just my favorite song, it’s like a life motto. I have two tattoos that reference thi...
In the previous weeks, I’ve been put on a collision course with myself. Some of us will never see the light. We have our antlers locked in battle with something that forces our gaze anywhere but ...
Love Me & UGH! by The 1975 in The Song Remembers When
I’m incredibly critical about music… that being said, I find myself enjoying the trashiness of pop music. I do have One Direction albums, I have Justin Bieber’s new album, but I find it difficult...
I’ve been really mouthy lately. Mouthier than usual. Especially on the internet. I just can’t stand idiocy any longer. My friend posted an article about the LGBT high school in Atlanta which fea...
“Type entry here…“ Wow, thanks for giving me something to aspire to. What am I supposed to say? I’ll have no rest. I have just 48 hours to get my application to France finished and I can’t seem t...
1: What did you do in 2015 that you’d never done before? I graduated from university and found myself in the post-college wasteland. 2: Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you mak...
I kid you not, the 26th of December, my depression lifted, my illness left and I immediately turned into that meme of Julie Andrews from The Sound of Music spinning on the mountains. It was nice,...
I know I haven’t been writing that often, but it’s honestly because I’m depressed and I hate depressed writing. There’s a defeatist bleakness that permeates any writing that I do and it isn’t wha...
Do you ever just enter this phase where you think everything is just incredibly stupid? I’ve been told that I have a reputation for being elitist and snobby, which I don’t necessarily think is ac...
The Woods in Things That I'm Grateful For
When I was finally at a place with my stand-up where I could actually tour and sustain a whole show by myself, I started writing concept narratives. That was how I did my shows. Each of my shows ...
So much has happened and I’ve wanted to write but my computer had to get shipped off to Texas for repairs. I’ve been sick, done scene work, been asked to audition for a Tennessee Williams product...
I don’t know what I’m writing about. I have been sick for days. I kept it together enough to work over the weekend, but I’ve totally collapsed when it was time to return to school. Whatever, my c...
Being friends with straight guys means that from time to time, things get uncomfortable. As with any friends you make, there are going to be times when they say something offensive and you have t...
I might type this really poorly because I’m typing it in my class, and I sit next to this hot Persian guy with a huge package in his bicycle shorts, and he constantly plays with it, so I’m always...
What part of pop culture do you wish would just go away? Well, “go away” is a bit strong, but I wish reality television were shelved as a concept for a little while. Back when it was first starti...
Legacy in The Stuff That's Not Interesting But Is The Most Interesting Stuff I'll Write
I suppose I didn’t explain myself very well in my last entry. I was overcome by my rant on privacy that I never actually got to balance out exactly what I was trying to say had happened. But I ha...
I know it’s not really clear from how I write, usually I zoom in on a specific topic and mention only the specifics (or talk around the specifics), but I’ve made a lot of changes lately. However,...