Japanese Movies on TCM, and a Bit About “Free Will”

Diary 8/19 to 8/20/22: Climate terror; Toshiro Mifune; Hemlock Club; hygroscopic vs hydroscopic; a puzzle unsolved; quoting myself; the striatum overwhelmed? A curious dream.

Ahab’s Arm, and Starting a Dream Journal

Diary 8/17 to 8/19/22: Paladin dream; Mckenna Grace on YouTube; Picard dream; new Dream Journal; who or what lifts Ahab's arm? An answer.

Dream Journal

Dream Journal. This material is presented without copyright, for "fair use," whatever that is. Most recent dreams will appear first and the file will be reblogged whenever.

Nothing “Given”: Struggling with Sellars

Diary 8/15 to 8/16/22: American insanity; notebook helps avoid work? Irony dammit; perceptible causation? philosophical mumbling, literary meandering; Angel Has Fallen DVD; Paladin dream; neighbor noises.

Getting “In-Shape,” and MSM Letting Us Down Bigtime

Diary 8/12 to 8/14/22: Cognitive fatigue; sex education; Hunter Killer DVD; dreams; Hemlock Club; Camus; Chris Hedges and the collapse of civilization; signing up for tour of a gym.

The Myth of the Given

Diary 8/10 to 8/11/22: Dream of Monopoly; weight woes; petty "depression"; reading my diary; dictionaries; pissy mood; gym gear; Wilfred or Wilfrid?

Sayonara, Patricia Highsmith

Diary 8/8 to 8/10/22: Simone Weil; Demonic DVD; "Creativity is mine!"; a dream; feeling unmotivated; exercise plans; downloading audio files; this diary; "duende"

“A Flea and a Fly in a Flue…”

Diary 7/18 to 7/22/22: Torey Hayden; thermometer from Wal-Mart; Camus's Notebooks and boredom; ancient Egypt; Lost in Austen; at war with the fleas; sun exposure and hunger; favorite music; an enviable life.

Camus on His Novels, and “Ma”

Diary 7/12 to 7/17/22: Working on "Bleak Philosophy"; censorship on Instagram and Facebook; Host, The Taste of Tea on DVD; a dream; wanting to give up; drum beats and weeping.

Bartlett’s, The Conjuring, and “Qua”

Diary 7/10 to 7/12/22: Torey Hayden books; Zirin article from The Nation; Bartlett's Quotations; Truthout on "abortion activists"; The Conjuring Universe; a dream of the Hemlock Club.

Interrupted Dreams and Political Crapola

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.

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.