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"

An Ugly Wagnerian Ring and Other Disasters

Diary 7/24 to 7/28/22: Free go set; Das Rheingold; Erda's pole dance; Siegfried's mechanical forge; the fleas are back; flat broke because I'm an idiot; Shakespeare's Timon; Russell, Wolfram, Camus.

Interrupted Dreams and Political Crapola

Diary 7/4 to 7/5/22: "Mr. Compromise"; Christian fascism; translator's choice; Bill Bryson; too many books; imminent mass extinction and Moby-Dick; blogging for ego; Chinese characters; Cinepassion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Trashing Harold Bloom

This is from my Prison Diary. It's quite unnecessary and I suppose unfair, given that Prof. Bloom is now deceased, but for someone just getting into reading literary criticism, it might be, um, "liberating." Like hearing Wayne C. Booth say that Joyce's Ulysses is obscure. So, with apologies...

My Taoism: Diary, 3/27 to 3/28/22

Blog post stats; Taoist Sage quote from Smullyan; how I spend my days; naps versus sleep; "Taoistic" quatrain from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám; sensible behavior now.

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.

Slangster Jonathon Green: Diary 3/10 to 3/11/22

Notes of a Novelist; doublethinking myself and playing with my words; Mister Slang; Powell's Books; The Mountain of Ignorance analogy; anti-religion rant; Emily Fox Gordon

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.

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

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

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.

Current Reading: Diary, 8/18 to 8/22/21

Dreams; Microsoft woes; DVDs everywhere and nothing to watch; Harold Bloom dissed; Herbert Read; Walter Kaufmann's Tragedy and Philosophy; Cleese's book; best autobiographies; inheriting Pablo's cat.

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).

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.