“Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dec
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“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and […]
Dec
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(originally posted 4/24/2013) Al remembers the hardest he had ever laughed. Funny thing is, not as funny as the incident itself obviously but still funny, he made himself laugh trying to make someone else laugh. It was the fact that he failed at making them laugh that made him laugh so hard. A song […]
Dec
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(originally posted 1/11/2023) He had been coached as to what to say. He walked into the interview, shoulders back and executing a confident stride, sporting a new haircut and smelling of the cologne that the girl at the counter at the mall said would be best for such an occasion. He had been coached […]
Dec
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(originally posted 1/14/2021) Obviously writing for adults is getting me nowhere fast so I’m going to switch gears today and offer up a delightful children’s story, suitable for children of all ages. Feel free to read it to them at bedtime, it’s perfectly safe and in no way resembles my earlier effort “Gary the […]
Dec
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(originally posted 4/22/2019) Relationships can be tricky even if you have all of your limbs. I know, I know. You’ve read a hundred articles in magazines with the same premise, but read on. I feel I make some salient points. Little things can mean a lot. Especially when both of the people in the […]
Dec
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(originally posted 8/15/2018) Hollywood is known as the place that eats people up and spits them out. The town is littered with stories of naive actors and actresses arriving full of fire only to slink back to where they came, their dreams battered and their spirits broken. And the ones that ‘make it’? More […]
