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“Advertising is about one thing: happiness.” I was in the tub watching Four Weddings & A Funeral the other day (yet another indictment of the modern dramady) when it was interrupted by a si...

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Instincts are generational coping mechanisms. Evolution is weaponized scar tissue for the purpose of escaping the trauma that caused it. How many tree frog ancestors were eaten before one beg...

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What sort of armor do you wear, and what buffs do you get from it? If you live in the city, dressing well, or dressing with a specific style, can have various intended effects, not only on one’...

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Do you ever have out of body experiences? I sometimes find myself telescoping away from myself, figuratively, leaving myself far behind, far below, as a tiny dot- with all of life and humanity a...

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Finally had it with NPR this afternoon after listening to my 731st rerun about the ethical nature of slavery reparations and turned it to Christian NPR, one station up, on the off chance that I ...

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I am currently listening to 3 women on NPR talking about how the ‘male loneliness epidemic’ is ‘overblown,’ why men’s problems are men’s fault, and how they can solve them by becoming more like ...

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Who are we, exactly? Are we who we wish to be? Who we choose to be? Or are we who we don’t wish to be? Who we never chose to be? Jung talks about The Shadow Self. Feral, product of the Id. Eve...

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There is a particular plot device in (good) horror scenarios in which the pleasant reality we think we know is actually a fiction disguising a horror, and the goal becomes escape. Movies like 20...

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Some mornings, whether or not there’s a reason for it, this long black claw emerges from depths forgotten to lampoon my heart and pull it down, down, down. Maybe there is obvious cause, but some...

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The stars all winked at me They shouted: child!- Your funeral, my trial. The universe has a lot to answer for. I’m not sure its offerings of sublime beauty make up for the abject horror living ...

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And why Art is more important than Science. There are many different types of Love songs. Love songs about new romance butterflies. Love songs about loss and grief. Love songs about separation ...

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It’s interesting, the things we learn about ourselves and the world that we didn’t know we didn’t know. One of those things, for me, was just how easy it is to affect the physical world around u...

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I can’t stand either of them. Yet I have been forced, mostly against my will, to deal with plenty of both over the course of my life. Something I don’t particularly wish upon anyone. I don’t ...

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That’s my Uncle, one of many, sometime in the 90s. He passed during Covid. There was no funeral or ceremony because his oldest brother (pictured in the back, hugging his own daughter), who w...

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Ever take a bite of something and swiftly realize that you can either A) immediately spit it out or B) wage a white knuckled campaign of war against the Puke Gods with every horrific chew, not k...

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Are control issues universal? Do people feel compelled to control others, or if not, themselves? I have as strong of a desire for self control as I do a loathing for the idea of being controll...

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Or something like that. Giving it a re-watch after many a year, and I find myself obsessed. I think this happened the first time. There is just something exquisitely otherworldly about this mo...

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Been thinking a lot about my mother lately. For some reason I have a much harder time talking to and being around her now than I ever have in my life. Part of that is the new marriage, even thou...

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My high school girlfriend and I had a pretty funny meet-cute at this Christian “youth group” my buddy would invite me to every Tuesday (free pizza after). It was a whole new scene for me- new gr...

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Good horror films usually target and accentuate certain primal fears, common to large demographics. Often multiple, layered into a tiramisu of finely honed terrors, set in its intention to raise...

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I am having a hard time dealing with a fundamental truth tonight. That first paradox we learned about in Logic class. The “you can never get to the door” paradox. I get it now. As it suppose...

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You know that cover of Somewhere Over The Rainbow by the Hawaiian guy that died quite some time ago? Movies overplayed it, but I still consider it a very special song, from a distant time and pl...

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Jumped into a fresh job site this week, new home construction, first whole-house I’ve had a chance to do since late last summer. Now that the three month solo grind of carrying hoses up and down...

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