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He and the She Substitutions
(Something I wrote over a decade ago. I was tickled rereading it, so I want you to be tickled for the first time.) After kissing Ms. Freckles, he had to gurgle with bourbon. He climbed out her window and fell … Continue reading
A Tangle of Thought Threads for Your Nimble Fingers of Theory
Though semiotics, as explored by Charles Sanders Peirce and, more recently, by John Deely, will consume most of what time I still give to philosophy in terms of systematic study, the two rubber-textbook-meets-the-open-road questions that haunt me are this darling … Continue reading
Stuck in the Middle with You
Originally posted on bourbonapocalypse:
We are a generation of clowns and jokers performing during the intermission. A flummoxed flux facing the farce as it finds itself fleeing an afflicted entrance and flowing into an absurd exit. I read Cyril Connolly’s The…
Kali Yuga, or Calling All Yugas
In Hinduism, the Kali Yuga age is the last of four ages. Oriented in the belief that with time comes decay, not progress and enlightenment, the Kali Yuga age is understood to be one of widespread personal, political, moral, societal, cultural, … Continue reading
Shunning and Shaming: Are You Down?
To the benefit of the Internet, Arturo Vasquez is once again blogging on a regular basis. I first came across his blog more than a decade ago and have followed him through his permutations as traditionalist-Catholic-with-Neoplatonist-leanings to Trotskyite-in-spite-of-himself to primitive-green-anarchist … Continue reading
The Last Honeybee
I wrote this poem over ten years for a poetry-writing workshop. The poem displays the pantoum form: the second and forth lines of a stanza become the first and third lines, respectively, of the next stanza, and there is an … Continue reading
Ketchup-on-Apron-Kind-of Love
At least once in everyone’s life, one should utterly act the fool for love and fail. I am not saying that it builds character; it may very well rob one of whatever character remains. However, the experience does contain, within … Continue reading
Pessimism Manifesto
Mr. Alan Reynolds makes a concise yet thorough case for pessimism. Divorced from any hope rooted in the divine, pessimism presents itself as the most rational response to life, especially modern life. Happy new year, y’all. via Pessimism Manifesto
Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
Here is the way I feel about 2018–the little hussy of a year cannot leave soon enough. This is Social Distortion’s Mike Ness’s version of the Dylan classic. Ness has to be one of the coolest-looking dudes ever to wield … Continue reading
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