This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio [SoundCloud])
Category Archives: my so called life
Raymond Zack
Saturday, November 20, 2021
“He uh… had the ability to make a bad decision and did.” “Yeahh-uh.” via Lefty Book Club Commentary with some more perspectives
Do not pass Go
Monday, November 8, 2021
Hey, i wrote something for another blog. Been participating in Lefty Book Club for a few weeks, with weekly assigned readings and group discussions over Zoom. In the subgroup i’ve been attending, we have read Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher and are now into Lost Connections by Johann Hari. Good books, good people, recommended for […]
Dread
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
What It’s Like To Be Cancelled But recognizing my experience as trauma helped me find the tools to heal from it. I learned that, when you remove the massive scale and severe implications of my specific situation, lots of people could relate to the experience of having their voice taken away, of being shunned from […]
Nonprofits
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
A Way Out: An activist with an ulcer asks, “Why do nonprofits exist?” The generous answer is that society is imperfect: people have needs that the government cannot meet (and that corporations refuse to meet). But the cynical answer is that there’s money to be made in nonprofits. Not for the people actually working at […]
Bukowski
Friday, February 19, 2021
you won’t see them often for wherever the crowd is they are not. those odd ones, not many but from them come the few good paintings the few good symphonies the few good books and other works. and from the best of the strange ones perhaps nothing. they are their own paintings their own books […]
existence
Thursday, May 28, 2020
i have a backlog of single link draft posts that i haven’t gotten around to fleshing out to a state that is publishable by my minimal standards. you would think i was busy. hah. i’m going to go ahead and post this video though because what it describes is very close to my own philosophy, […]
pretty much sums it up
Monday, August 12, 2019
Why I’m A Squishy Leftie This isn’t scary socialism. This is self-protection by protecting the social contract within which we live, and just giving a damn about people. just read Harry August this summer and it was very good.
on happiness
Friday, February 15, 2019
We live in a world where people think happiness is a condition, but it’s not; it’s a sensation. It’s momentary. So do I have little moments of happiness? Yes. Is that my general condition? No. Is that anyone’s general condition? I can’t believe that’s the case. Are there people that are generally more buoyant than […]
