There’s a strange segment of the population so disaffected with their lives and the state of the world that they imagine themselves fitting in better at another point in history. They seem to forget that the world for much of human history has pretty much sucked. Continue reading →
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Aug 10
The Creativity of Youth (or I’m Realizing That I’m Getting More Boring With Time)
It’s not an uncommon situation, I suppose. When we were kids, our minds bubbled with the sort of imagination usually reserved for delusional schizophrenics: the floor was lava, animals could talk, and the dark was a living entity that if not separated from oneself by a blanket could eat one’s very soul. As we grow older, of course, the floor becomes a surface for vacuuming, the animals are an underestimated responsibilities, and the dark is a welcome respite from flickering fluorescence. It’s quite necessary, really. An almost-29-year-old who is afraid of the dark is severely limited in his social interactions.
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Aug 10
Personal CEO Tony Hayward Responds To Allegations of Mishandling My Most Recent Relationship
Personal CEO Tony Hayward responded today to allegations that he mishandled my most recent relationship, which resulted in breakup and bitterness. Some watchdog groups also released press statements today, calling the breakup “inevitable” as well as allegedly “calling it”, claiming Hayward ignored months of warning signs of the impending personal disaster.
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Jul 10
The Road !Taken
This site is run by software called WordPress. Wordpress is “open source”, which means that anyone is free to go to WordPress.org, download the software, and take a look at the innards to see how they tick, which may or may not render the software completely inoperable and the tinkerer utterly despondent after doubting his own intelligence and wondering whether his film degree meant anything at all.
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Jul 10
Laryngitis
Near the end of his life, William Faulker served as the writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia. This appears to have meant that the University of Virginia needed good press and that William Faulker needed drinking money. However the arrangement, it resulted in Faulkner giving a series of talks in conjunction with the University. Some of these were to classes such as Freshmen Lit., while others were to more social groups such as the Law School Wives. (This particular group caught my interest. Was there a gathering of Med School Wives? How about Nursing Husbands? What about Theatre Major Life Partners?)