I grew up in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and The Bomb; now I find myself in George Orwell's worst nightmare. We're turning Eden into Hell. This site is monitored by the Federal government because I am an ex-con. I call myself The Bleak Philosopher, but my name is Alan Carl Nicoll. Background painting by Natalie Belikova.

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About Kick Me: Diary 4/25 to 4/30/21

War; a poem; matter as empty space; disgust again; Fritz Perls on video; Hemlock Club mtg; Tao Te Ching; Thoreau; sick for days; In America & Nói DVDs; etc.

Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Book Reviews, Depression, Diary, Free Books, Free Love, Health, Kick Me, Movie Reviews, Nonfiction Book in Progress, Poetry Leave a comment May 1, 2021 10 Minutes

Writer’s Block? Diary, 3/4 to 3/8/21

He appears unexpectedly, escorting the drunken Branwell Brontë to the Parsonage late in the evening. He is assumed by one of the sisters to be another drunk. When he arrives at the Parsonage the next day, the event has unusual interest...

Alan Carl Nicoll Depression, Diary, Free Books, Free Love, Fynn novel, Literature, Movie Reviews, Novel in Progress, The Writing Life, Writing theory Leave a comment March 9, 2021 10 Minutes

My New Diary, 12/8 to 12/11/2018

The weight increase looks like a wakeup call. Maybe I need to pay more attention to how I’m living my life. Yesterday I ate half of a chocolate cream pie instead of dinner, and I concluded my day with “another day shot to hell,” suggesting that I felt that I had wasted my day.