Timmyted, Whining, and Self-Destructive Weirdness

Diary 8/27 to 8/29/22: Caitlin Johnstone; insomnia; Wittgenstein's Notebooks; Caroline Winkler; dead Sequoias; bacteria and suicide? Feeling needy; current reading (maybe).

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Caroline Winkler, et al.

Diary 8/21 to 8/25/22: Character in fiction; "dithers"; Gide's Journals; self-guidance; a binge; cutting myself slack; RepugliKKKan overload; The Snake; sexual satisfaction through home organization.

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.

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.

“A Flea and a Fly in a Flue…”

Diary 7/18 to 7/22/22: Torey Hayden; thermometer from Wal-Mart; Camus's Notebooks and boredom; ancient Egypt; Lost in Austen; at war with the fleas; sun exposure and hunger; favorite music; an enviable life.

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.

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.

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.

Disappointments

Diary 6/7 to 6/8/22: Don't sleep alone; crackers to replace chips; Cindy Crabb and blood on the page; bug dream; tree identification; disappointing books from Chomsky and Borges; chemistry has changed; Unf*ck Your Brain.

“Daily Waste of Daily Powers,” Highsmith Quotes, etc.

Diary 5/20 to 5/23/22: Patricia Highsmith quotes; Chris Hedges; a dream; stopping caring; disgraceful eating; neuroscientist quote; fiction writing "my calling"; my best reading and writing; wilted cilantro; Jif recall; Australian climate and election.

LGBTQ+, Vertigo, and Politics

Diary, 5/10 to 5/11/22: No Dr. Strange; Sony and Morbius; Richard Medhurst; too many syllables; photo memory? Recommended books; Hartmann; vertigo; macros; smoothie woo hoo!

Swept Away: Diary 3/21 to 3/22/22

Books that sweep me away; inspired by Middlemarch; a scam avoided; inspired by Greta Thunberg; a dream; blog activity up; George Lakoff and metaphors.

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.

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

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.

Slaughterhouse Terror: Diary, 2/10/22

A dream; disgusting other post gets 8 likes; my "throbs" listed; Eisnitz: Slaughterhouse notes and quotes; update of some stats on E. coli

Fritz Perls: Diary, 2/7 to 2/9/22

Hailee Steinfeld and Linda Blair DVDs; the struggle with protein; peas and bean snacks; down days; Dinklage in Cyrano (preview); Highsmith again; Erica Ridley book and many other books; my fiction trivial; lots more, with emphasis on self-guidance.

Diary 2/23 to 2/27/2020

So I’ve begun stocking up for the coronavirus panic, spending $150 at Food Maxx this morning. I needed groceries anyway, and so might have spent $100, but I doubled up on some things, like getting three dozen eggs...