Diary 7/4 to 7/5/22: "Mr. Compromise"; Christian fascism; translator's choice; Bill Bryson; too many books; imminent mass extinction and Moby-Dick; blogging for ego; Chinese characters; Cinepassion.
Category: Dreams
Taoism, Sex, and Media Taboos
Diary 6/30 to 7/2/22: Typos; Nietzsche quote; testicle experiment; specializing journalists; Matt Taibbi quoted; Black Panthers; bingeing; blood pressure and nausea; the end of Highsmith diaries; Sharper Image; a day of labors; a dream.
Vibrating Testes and Other Insults
Diary 6/28 to 6/30/22: gun laws passed; odd notes; Johnstone on abortion; scam avoided; Highsmith again; Judy Blume; shopping at Wal-Mart; a vibrator from Sharper Image.
RexMD Ripoff!
Diary 6/23/22: "Kayfabe" again; dream email; inspirational quotes; Weltschmerz; happy pills; the end; suspicious charge; happy ending.
Struggling with Myself
Diary 6/17 to 6/20/22: CodePink and critical media literacy; Noam Chomsky; who can you trust? Democracy Now; Walter Truett Anderson on Reality and postmodernism; bullet journal; junk TV.
Waking Dreams and the Art of Natalie Belikova
Diary 6/14 to 6/16/22: Books; periodic table; happier as a chemist; women's ribs debunked; beet juice and ED; writing fiction; Natalie Belikova and her paintings; Power & Health on Link TV; two "waking dreams."
Disappointments
Diary 6/7 to 6/8/22: Don't sleep alone; crackers to replace chips; Cindy Crabb and blood on the page; bug dream; tree identification; disappointing books from Chomsky and Borges; chemistry has changed; Unf*ck Your Brain.
An Optical Illusion and the Usual
Diary 6/2 to 6/3/22: Only in America; a dream (with pun) and a nightmare; Highsmith quotes; boys with guns; bad movie; writing dismay; masturbation in men; new optical illusion.
Thessaloniki, Jane Eyre, and Smoothies
Diary 5/24 to 5/26/22: Literary Curiosities; Liberty Valance; "I'd do well to..."; dreams; Jane Eyre binge; Venom: Let There Be Carnage; making smoothies.
“Daily Waste of Daily Powers,” Highsmith Quotes, etc.
Diary 5/20 to 5/23/22: Patricia Highsmith quotes; Chris Hedges; a dream; stopping caring; disgraceful eating; neuroscientist quote; fiction writing "my calling"; my best reading and writing; wilted cilantro; Jif recall; Australian climate and election.
Buying Books and…Mckenna Grace?
Diary 5/16 to 5/17/22: The King's Speech; Ghostbusters Afterlife; psyllium again; religion books; more shelves? getting rid of Pathfinder; Russell Brand; a nightmare; typographical erorrs in history; Oliver La Farge.
“Bans Off Our Bodies” and “Against Mysticism”
Diary 5/12 to 5/14/22: Protest planned in Bakersfield; empathy; dreamlets; "Charles Adolphus Spree"; fiction writing and contentment; Wittgenstein; WordPress stats; The World Needs Me; philosophy club?
Egyptology, Politics, a Change of Direction
Diary, 5/11 to 5/12/22: a call to action; Chomsky quotes; a mystery speech; where are they? A dream of mistakes; Hidden Tombs of Memphis book; politics or fiction? Fiction.
Flying Camels and Patricia Highsmith
Diary, 5/6 to 5/7/22: Multiple Scott Ritters; lunch with Pablo; breakfast smoothie; tangerine seeds bitter; fruit messiness; a dream of flying camels and playing catch; Highsmith quote.
Roe! etc.
Diary, 5/3/22: a dream; Roe off life support; my first homemade smoothie; lots of neuroscience news; naps and cognitive decline; the "wisdom of the body."
The Eyes of Mckenna Grace
Diary, 4/26 to 4/29/22: Rethinking Scott Ritter; server problem; dreams; Grace on YouTube; a popular blog post; sleep and melatonin; money; Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann; boredom; a promise? Snap out of it!
A Cog in the Machine
Diary, 4/17 to 4/19/22: 800 books; censorship and isolation; depressing truth; the right targets; where is Orwell? befouled conscience and going vegan. The new fascism.
Angry Spiders: Diary, 4/10 to 4/12/22
Self-distraction; talk is cheap; piles of notes; marriage is not a reward quote from Chris Hedges; Bullet Journal; efficiency; screaming; Abraham Joshua Heschel; a dream; restarting the novel.
House On Fire: Normal Times?
Hemlock Club; climate crisis; corporate profits; relieve suffering; I am a petulant child; a dream; insomnia; Marcus Aurelius quote and mental foundations; corporatocracy; Putin apologists and MSM.
Oscars: Diary, 3/25 to 3/27/22
Fun with Pablo; Ukraine and America; doomed by panicky monkeys; 3 birthdays; writing binge; Oscars review; a moth; Derrick Jensen quote/review, and more.
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