When you get so goddamned bored that you drive around and look at your old workplaces. I guess reliving past trauma puts current trauma into perspective.
Category Archives: Philosophy
End Credits
Sneak out the fire door of the theater under the screen. Piss behind the building instead of waiting for an open head out front. Walk around the block to your car. Remember it’s a global pandemic and that you’re not actually going to a theater to watch a movie. Realize you’re outside of time. Nothing …
Get Snippy
Some people, unless you’re watchful, will sit down at your table, grab the thread of conversation, and tie it to the mile of twine they have bunched up in the baggage at their feet. There’s no end in sight, and no goal other than to take up air time. Always be ready with the scissors.
Jig Saw
I think those two years in the Gifted and Talented program in junior high ruined me. I mean, sure, it taught me the value of lateral thinking and finding novel ways to approach problems and solve them. But they never told me that lateral thinking wasn’t always necessary…or welcomed. I found myself quite often doing …
Mute
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” I’ve seen this platitude festoon an abundance of freshman blogs and journals that ramble on before their eventual abandonment. Judging from the state of my life and the state of my own blog and journal, I’ll go on to say that the examined life isn’t that much farther …