What are the things that make adults depressed? The master list is too comprehensive to quantify (plane crashes, unemployment, killer bees, impotence, Stringer Bell’s murder, gambling addictions, crib death, the music of Bon Iver, et al.). But whenever people talk about their personal bouts of depression in the abstract, there are two obstructions I hear… [Read more…]
February 15, 2011
Here’s a question I like to ask people when I’m ⅝ drunk: Let’s say you had the ability to make a very brief phone call into your own past. You are (somehow) given the opportunity to phone yourself as a teenager; in short, you will be able to communicate with the fifteen-year-old version of you.… [Read more…]
February 13, 2011
This is an image post. You have to click on the title to view. You learn’d.
February 13, 2011
Not too long before a couple of planes flew into a couple of New York office buildings, I sent out a mass e-mail to several friends that focused on the concept of patriotism. At the time, “patriotism” seemed like a quaint, baffling concept; it was almost like asking people to express their feelings on the… [Read more…]
February 10, 2011
People assume that I am not an emotional person. Which is completely wrong. I am an extremely emotional person. To the point where I had found it so embarrassing that I mastered hiding it. So, now you know [if you wish].
February 8, 2011
I hate punk rock. Actually, that’s not true; I kind of like punk rock, sometimes. What I hate are people who love punk rock. There has never been a genre of anything that has made more people confused about what art is capable of doing, and they all refuse to shut up about it. A… [Read more…]
February 8, 2011
To elaborate further on my last blog post: When you flip a coin, what are the odds of it coming up heads? 50-50. Either it will be heads, or it will not. When you roll a six-sided die, what are the odds that you’ll roll a three? 50-50. You’ll either get a three, or you… [Read more…]
February 7, 2011
Life is chock-full of lies, but the biggest lie is math. That’s particularly clear in the discipline of probability, a field of study that’s completely fake. When push comes to shove, when you truly get down to the core essence of existence, there is only one mathematical possibility: Everything is 50-50. Either something will happen,… [Read more…]
February 6, 2011
The three questions I wish everyone would just answer for me, already! 1. Let us assume you met a rudimentary magician. Let us assume he can do five simple tricks—he can pull a rabbit out of his hat, he can make a coin disappear, he can turn the ace of spades into the Joker card,… [Read more…]
February 2, 2011
Here is a poem that I wrote in 2006. It is one of my personal favorites. Deeply, I was curious about you. You had a mind that I was addicted to. A body shaped by an artist’s hands. With dreams built of high demands. Your cryptic ways, they intrigued me. Your movement, it set my… [Read more…]
February 15, 2011
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