2021 Wrapup: Diary, 12/2 to 12/29/21

Many dreams, movies, and books; my CO2 invention; HC and mysticism; reading Austen's Emma; Henry Miller quotes; Arthur Koestler; bell hooks; XR; writing tools; McAfee woes; self-mastery; Family Guy binge.

The Philosophy Club: Diary, 11/8 to 11/14/21

"My new novel"; choosing to believe; my background; dreams; Saw franchise; nausea and gastritis; Cells; Marvel's Eternals; Herbert Read quote; critique group.

Whole Brain BS: Diary, 11/5 to 11/7/21

Pollyanna Grows Up; movies; Hallmark crap; Taylor's book, Whole Brain Living; Hemlock Club meeting; the "lump of ignorance"; constipation; Power vs Force book is BS.

Getting Serious: Diary 10/26 to 10/31/21

Dreams; Chucky; memory failure; probation; Hemlock Club failure; impressed by two books; Herman Melville.

Excrement! Diary 10/16 to 10/24/21

Shelf overload; Jane Austen; the end of self-therapy; Marsha Hunt; Pollyanna; antiphilosophy; Jung worthless? Dreams; Hemlock Club; pronouns; excrement! BB Journal; Dune; Henry Miller; writing doldrums; Writers of Kern

Charles Eisenstein: Diary 10/11 to 10/15/21

James's Sentiment of Rationality; Swept Away; self-mastery; masturbation; dreams; AMP? Muddle-heads and Simple-minds; Luther quote; Kamp Solutions

Maya and Mysticism: Diary 10/6 to 10/10/21

Rejection of "Maya"; Nietzsche's Will to Power; Russell, Heraclitus, and Spinoza quotes; dreams; Hemlock Club frustrations; Thick Nhat Hanh's "suchness"; and atomic vibration and inertia.

Finished My Book: Diary, 9/20 to 9/26/21

Joy and depression; Tasty Words a hit at Hemlock Club; purple hair; no free car, sorry; Bullet Journal; a Simpsons dream; homeless family.

Philosophy Today: Diary 9/11 to 9/12/21

In which I argue with, or go beyond, quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, Walter Kaufmann, and Bertrand Russell. Plus movie review and Hemlock Club notes and the usual blather.

Club Notes: Diary, 9/2 to 9/5/21

Bad movies reviewed; Nietzsche's Gay Science; John Cleese book; Hemlock Club discussion of Gandhi, Napoleon, Tolstoy, and Meaning of Life; Pablo's sadness; bedbugs slaughtered.

Ballet and Dracula: Diary, 8/6 to 8/15/21

Blocked by Oliver; Stigmata DVD; Hemlock Club meetings; editing woes; did Ma want a girl instead of me? Reading Tod Browning's Dracula; a dozen movies dissed; book splurge.

Writers and Characters: Diary, 7/7 to 7/11/21

Two ways to think about characters; Hesse's Steppenwolf; writers being silly; quotes from Graves & Hodge concluded; Dunst as Marie Antoinette; Nicolas Cage movies; Hemlock Club meeting and novel.