I am bored and restless, which is a bad way to be on a quiet night without enough energy to make things happen. Most of the people I know are occupied by All Tonight’s Parties, so the usual haunts are quiet. Drove around out of boredom, ended up back at my house. The saddest voyages …
Category Archives: Philosophy
Blow
I wonder sometimes if my role in this world is to add counterbalance to the chipper, positive, hopeful, blind-to-the-consequences world. It is my lot, apparently, to state the things that nobody wants to acknowledge, to inject reality into the little platitudes that we say to ourselves and to each other to prop up our false …
Independence
Believe me or not, but I find it important to know how to Do Things. Lots of things. Survival things. Building things. Project things. Because despite what you see of me in public, sometimes I look away from the screen. Because sometimes I don’t want to “google” the how-to. Because sometimes I want to know …
Pushing Nothing
Q: At what point does atheism become antitheism? A: When it proselytizes as fervently and annoyingly as the theists. Listen, I get it. I’ve been there. I’ve felt that call to wake people up and convince them of my truth. Call it our memetic drive. We have to cast our seed as broad as possible …
Topsoil
Get old enough, and your habits, your pleasures, your fixations require a push, a jab, to still feel something. The depths of perversion one must reach. Pain in the mix. The risk of embarrassment. The final washing away of the delusion that after death you’ll have to stand in judgment as the film reel of …