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Sep.21.2011
I’m stretched out on my bed, half my legs hanging over the end, as usual. Outside in the hall I can hear voices raised in protest against Miki’s assertion that the party is definitely fucking over.
He jumps back into the room, shoulders the door shut, locks and dead-bolts it, kills the lights...
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Aug.14.2011
David Cameron has so canonised water cannons that they appear to be miracle-makers of the new morality drenching the fires of protest. “London is not Kensington,” an expat tells me. It is a discovery for the immigrant, too, and armed with this knowledge commentary is caged behind fabricated fences...
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Jul.02.2011
This op-ed, written by Hemingway's friend and biographer, A.E. Hotchner, gives us a view of the famed writer's mental decay in the year prior to his death.
But...you may not be truly paranoid if they really are out to get you.
image via sunalsorises.wordpress.com
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Dec.09.2010
Heroism is being retailed quite easily. What you see about such sensitive information is the probability factor designed to create fear and comply with the filibustering by a few big nations.
Julian Assange gets arrested in London for a crime he says he has not committed and not for a...
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Oct.31.2010
October 31
Halloween
“Why does self-centered fear wear a costume that looks so much like ‘other people’s opinion’?” I asked my sponsor.
“For the same reason that booze masquerades as ‘a good time.’ How would you ever fall into a pit which used no pretense? Naked...
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Oct.01.2010
I’ve said before, I have both bipolar I disorder as well as panic disorder. I no longer have panic disorder with agoraphobia, but I did 5 years ago. Jason and I moved to Denver for me to go to grad school at the University of Denver and for him to work at his corporate headquarters.
I hated going...
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Apr.14.2010
Gravity’s Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon – Part 2
If one with Pynchon’s apocalyptic view of western society and his desire to write about it were to devise a novel on the subject, what form would suit his story best? In broadbrush form, it should probably consist of episodic segments using...
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Apr.02.2010
It has been so long since I had any revelations about being a writer. I think it's the trees blocking out the forest conundrum. I don't ever get out of the insular writer bubble to see how quirky I really am.
But...
While I was in Virginia, I did manage to escape for a little bit. Ironically...
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Jan.03.2010
January 3
Maniacs on Pogo Sticks
I fear maniacs on pogo sticks peeping through my rural second story windows as the smoke of paranoia curls between my ears. Overestimating my interest to others causes me as much harm as the underestimation. Attributing super powers to onlookers is a parlor...
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Nov.30.2009
Minarets don’t really float my boat, but to ban them? That too in Switzerland by a referendum from the people? 57.5 percent voted in favour. It has been opposed by the Swiss government, parliament, business groups and churches but given the thumbs up by the Right wing Swiss People’s Party.
Here are...
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