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.
Philosophy Today: Diary 9/11 to 9/12/21
Category: Horror
Rewriting Lessons: Diary, 9/6 to 9/10/21
Dreams; books and movies; "hopefully"; Dickens and Camus quotes; Matrix: Resurrections; twitter quote; rewriting lessons.
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.
Good & Evil & Movies: Diary, 8/28 to 9/1/21
Horror & other DVDs; Nietzsche quote leading to good and evil muddle; nothing else worth a mention.
Olivia Cooke: Diary, 8/22 to 8/27/21
Pixie, Summerland, Climax, a dozen movies; Pablo goes to San Jose (knew the way); rethinking that friendship (again); not much else.
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.
More Movies: Diary, 8/4 to 8/5/21
Reading Sartre; editing Kick Me; Goethe quotes, one about Faust; movie reviews including Hanna, Walled In, and The Inheritance (2011).
Movie Binge: Diary 7/28 to 8/3/21
Faulty memory, a toothache, work on Kick Me, a dream, Lin Yutang quotes, depression, Twitter, and twelve movies reviewed briefly; not much else.
Steppenwolf: Diary, 7/23 to 7/27/21
Hesse's Steppenwolf; "Hollywood Comedy Legends" and other movies; progress on Kick Me; reading as a writer; muddle-headed versus simple-minded distinction.
Movies: Diary, 6/26 to 6/30/21
Hemlock Club report, Color Out of Space, Phantasm III-V, and Finding Forrester reviews, working on Kick Me, climate catastrophe, not much else, edited to remove dross.
Phantasm: Diary, 6/23 to 6/25/21
Phantasm and other DVDs; rethinking the blog; Frazier's On the Rez and other books; getting rid of books; a meeting at Dagny's about Kick Me.
Hemlock Novel: Diary, 6/11 to 6/12/21
Sybil movie; two novels die and another is born; horror movie mistake; Hemlock Club meeting; possible philosophy discussion.
Failure of Creativity: Diary, 6/5 to 6/7/21
A dream; failure of creativity; my stupidity; Twitter squabble; pit of despair?; Blade movies; feeling drained and confused.
Save the Cat! Diary, 6/3 to 6/4/21
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel; a hard issue in writing; WordPress not great; bad movies; Austen's Persuasion.
Commitment: Diary, 5/29 to 5/30/21
New commitment to writing; Walter Kaufmann; despair; disdain for E. M. Forster; Sideways, Augustine, and Scary Movie reviews; bored with Gestalt Therapy; self-mastery joke.
Ghost World: Diary, 5/15 to 5/28/21
Movie reviews; Uzzell: Narrative Technique; "Finding Oliver" and subsequent events; melatonin; Kick Me; Cheetos; and "the usual gang of idiocy."
Disgusting Old Age: Diary, 5/14/21
Ferlinghetti; It; mindfulness; Debby Ryan; testosterone, masturbation, perversion, impotence, Viagra, constipation, i.e., disgusting old age. Also, integrity. And Amazon sucks. 100 followers!
NO-SEE-UM
An old married couple has a disagreement about the bugs she can see but he can't. A humorous horror story.
