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"

Kwaidan, Tasty Words, and the Perfect Map

Diary 7/31 to 8/3/22: Social Security; save money or buy books; Bernardo Kastrup and Russell Brand; Melville's Pierre; printer revitalized; I saw Saw; Ayer's book.

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.

Old Philosophers and Anti-Chomsky

Diary 7/7 to 7/9/22: Bugs Bunny; Idries Shah; highest goals in life; Annabelle; cooked by the heat; extra calories sometimes necessary; books by Bertrand Russell and Karl Popper; Anti-Chomsky Reader.

DVDs, Skepticism, and Politics

Diary 7/5 to 7/6/22: Movies on DVD; why I'm a skeptic; getting a little preachy; unable to "find the penguin"; shredding by hand; Democrats; no Dr. Strange DVD at Walmart.

Buying Books and…Mckenna Grace?

Diary 5/16 to 5/17/22: The King's Speech; Ghostbusters Afterlife; psyllium again; religion books; more shelves? getting rid of Pathfinder; Russell Brand; a nightmare; typographical erorrs in history; Oliver La Farge.

Meal Replacement and Digital Thermometers

Diary, 5/1/22 continued: Caitlin Johnstone and our Ministry of Truth; suicidal children; how much do you want to know? Organic shake problems; thermometers that take batteries; longevity diet; The Haunting DVD.

Emma, etc.: Diary, 11/19 to 12/1/21

Jerry Brown quote; neurotransmitters; The Philosophy Club novel; Hap the Crystalwright novel; many movies, some TV; versions of Jane Austen's Emma compared a bit.

In My Skin: Diary, 11/14 to 11/18/21

Novel writing; Pickwick Papers quotes; lie/lay? Movies; drug companies; Lincoln; Durant book and others; phthisis.

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.

Jill Bolte Taylor: Diary, 11/1 to 11/4/21

Self-mastery; play and writing; Black Widow, Office Killer (with Carol Kane), Strange Girls, and other DVDs; Hallmark nonsense; four brains in our heads.

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

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

“Red Shoes” Diary, 9/13 to 9/19/21

Free car? Cindy Crabb, Nietzsche, and Cioran quotes; movies; Red Shoes on PBS; the missing pen mystery; final edit of my book!

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.

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.