Sundry Weighty Matters and Jellyfish

Diary 7/2 to 7/3/22: Mumblecore; Johnstone on Ukraine etc.; Hemlock Club meeting; General Semantics; Frank Harris: My Life and Loves; cyclic reality and Nietzsche; reasons for religious belief; grumpy moods.

Hemlock Club and Socrates Cafe

Diary 6/25/22: Interesting articles from Nature, including Roe; Alan Watts poem; no doom and gloom; my bleak philosophy; poetry challenge; annoying flies; misery of heat; MLK quote and Christopher Phillips.

Conversations, Hemlock, and Sherlock

Diary 6/10 to 6/12/22: Two-year-olds; dementia; Hemlock Club and Jan 6th; talking with Nog; BBC's Sherlock; Hedges on the Committee; diary clutter; A Dangerous Method.

Observations on the Public Hearing

Diary 6/8 to 6/10/22: Ignoring my optometrist; self-guidance; House Hearings and Tucker Carlson; Caitlin Johnstone quoted; world oil reserves; popcorn way to health; Taibbi, FAIR, and other sources.

Shakespeare and “Spirituality”

Diary 6/3 to 6/5/22: Ninja Fit; gut and brain link; Truthout articles; Karl Popper; my lame fiction; more wasted food; Johnstone quote; Jesse Ventura; Poor Peoples Campaign; a dream; Aussie movie; pushy Pablo.

Believable Fantasy, Surprise Gifts, and Good Movies

Diary, 5/17 to 5/20/22: Ghostbusters: Afterlife; better fantasies; fabulous Turandot; McAfee woes; Natalie Belikova artwork gift; praising Highsmith; turn inward; Hitchcock and Chomsky.

The Odds of Friendship and Other Jokes

Diary 5/14 to 5/15/22: Blog name change; Rosetta Stone package; social isolation; I'm 1 in 1000; trackpad problem solved; crazy kids; Hemlock Club meeting; future prospects; a couple of jokes.

“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?

Curtains, Hemlock, and Quotes

Diary 5/7 to 5/8/22: McAfee expensive; stupid about groceries; Hemlock Club w/photo; dark night; Zen and analysis; not believing fantasies; another smoothie; Frankl quote and doom; Dostoyevsky and grief; Gibran and pain; "repugliKKKan"; opening the curtains.

My Legacy, and Other Nonsense

Diary, 5/4 to 5/5/22: Rant about Roe; free lists; smoothie experiments; Marvel and Terminator; notes and journaling; what every intellectual wants? Actresses, drooling. Coming to take me away!

Highsmith and Wittgenstein

Diary 4/12 to 4/17/22; US hypocrisy; an emotional crisis survived through self-indulgence; "shrunt" defined; neurosis? Wittgenstein and Highsmith quotes; the essential essence.

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.

Jane Eyre: Diary, 3/20 to 3/21/22

The world and money; from Sanditon to Jane Eyre; fecal transplants; blog views; three hours on the phone; War and Peace and Constance Garnett; dirty old men.

An Old Favorite: Diary, 3/16 to 3/17/22

Beauty and the Beast 1987 TV series; library book sales; Stephen Wolfram; much nattering about books; Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; fave artists; Hemlock Club audiocast? Gifts for Madelyn; Constance Garnett; blood on the page.

Bernard Herrmann: Diary, 3/12 to 3/14/22

Donation to Truthout; Hemlock Club meeting; "Kiss me"; dream of a belly dance; social media and depression; favorites on You Tube; Bernard Herrmann, my favorite; Beauty and the Beast 1987; books; Mckenna Grace again.

Darn these Nitfarbs! Diary, 3/5 to 3/6/22

Dreams; constipation; erectile dysfunction; madly in love; my oldest computer TRS-80 Color C.; blog readers; neglected books; Astronomy for Writers.

Kawabata: Diary, 2/25 to 2/27/22

New mouse; new books; MS Word woes; Sleeping Beauty and other DVDs; Vietnam and discovering Kawabata; Isabel Miller; Hemlock Club hairpulling and poetry; Leonard Cohen; Loaded Diapers; etc.

Horney on Neuroses: Diary, 2/17 to 2/21/22

Bookshelf overload; unfamiliar composers; Karen Horney book; Thoreau and Nietzsche; current reading; Hammett method; indecisive writer; Leonard Cohen; Cloverfield Paradox.

Terrifying Economics: Diary, 2/11 to 2/12/22

Remember what you learn, by Will Schroder, including the Feynman technique; Charlie Munger quote; Richard Wolff interviewed by Chris Hedges, on the coming collapse of the US economy, pretty convincing; skinny pens; Hemlock Club psych and The Yin of Self-Mastery. Isn't that enough