Diary 5/15 to 5/16/22: Birthday party invite; psyllium debacle; short $; the world needs YOU; "Arguments"; discovering Tori Amos; strike a pose to feel confident; psyllium warning.
Tag: Miscellaneous Reviews
“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?
Scott Ritter on the Ukraine War
Diary, 4/25, continued: Mckenna Grace; same old politics; off the cliff; library book sale; book about Petra; Scott Ritter on Pirate TV; José Ortega y Gasset; "traffic.camp"; quite a day.
Putin and Pablo
Diary, 4/4 to 4/5/22; watching the news; threat of violence; Pirate TV shows; Marx; peaceniks; ageing printer; minimum wage; Scott Horton; Greg Palast
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.
Middlemarch: Diary, 3/22 to 3/24/22
Tolstoy and War and Peace; movies reviewed; powerful video on You Tube; Cindy Crabb's book; sildenafil arrives; 300% reduction (Truthout); almost overdrawn; blood on the page; quote from Harmful to Minors.
Sanditon: Diary, 3/18/22
Jane Austen on testosterone; odd phone calls; Annabelle movie; abandoning two books; fave bleeding women's memoirs listed; confabulation and Know Thyself.
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
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...
Diary, 2/16 to 2/22/20
N came to the Hemlock Club today and we talked for four hours. I told him about “the friendly voice” idea and that I thought I might give it a try. The idea is that you publish an ad saying “A friendly voice” and your phone number, hoping to encourage lost souls to call you to talk, hopefully thus relieving some suffering in the world. I used to worry that this would become a burden, and that indeed could happen; but I am not required to answer every call, necessarily, and I can limit calls to fifteen minutes. I originally wanted to have a separate phone number for this, and perhaps I’ll do that, though it would be some expense. Possibly Craigslist...
Diary, 2/9 to 2/15/20
Copyright 2020 by Alan Carl Nicoll All Rights Reserved {2/9/20} Weight 211.8. {2/10/20} Weight 212.2. {2/11/20} Weight 211.2. Cherry pie diet. I dreamt that I was telling my cousin Barbara that I was having a difficult time coping after prison. I was riding uphill on a motor scooter, which I’ve never done, and I think … Continue reading Diary, 2/9 to 2/15/20
Diary 2/1 to 2/8/2020
Culled from the Bullet Journal:
2/4: I can’t take my ‘depression’ seriously because it’s not justified by my life, because it doesn’t last, and because I don’t deserve any better. I don’t deserve joy.
2/6: I’m carrying a fuckton of well-earned guilt. What to do?
Diary, 1/22 to 1/31/20
Yesterday was unforgettable. In the morning I ate at Lorene’s, not wanting to take the time to go to Macdonald’s, and not wanting to get that much sodium after yesterday’s high dose. Then, walking towards Dagny’s for Shut Up and Write, I saw a well-built black man running along 20th Street in my direction. I paused to let him pass, but he didn’t run past—instead, he punched me in the face while speaking loudly to me, words that made little impression. I turned away...
Diary, 1/5 to 1/15/2020
I see here “Lisa Simpson observing the conjunction of the moon and Venus.” I have subsequently realized that the moon is facing the wrong direction; that is, instead of “C” it should be “Ɔ”. This “spooky” coincidence is the most surprising and remarkable I’ve ever experienced, I believe. I see or assign no particular meaning to this “synchronicity.”
Diary, 12/1 to 12/11/19
A bleak morning, thinking of the role the United States has taken in the world throughout my lifetime and before. Thinking of the role the greedy rich have taken in the United States throughout my lifetime. Thinking of the ineffectual Democratic Presidents, the hope-betrayers...
Diary, 11/20 to 12/1/19
A week of HBO and Cinemax and stuff. Watched maybe the first half of Aquaman, and turned it off at that point because it was so awful. The man himself is good, but the story just sucks. I expect it will have its fans among the younger set, like thirteen-year-old boys. But, seriously, drinking and driving? Heavy drinking for amusement value? No and No. The CGI is overblown; Atlantis would have looked better if...
Diary, 11/7 to 11/14/19
Reading Frederick Perls: Gestalt Therapy Verbatim, the introductory lectures called “Talk,” and being at first deeply impressed, then somewhat distressed, and finally feeling like he really doesn’t know what he’s talking about. In this book he’s really trying...
Diary, 11/1 to 11/6/19
910 words so far this morning on The New Book. So far it is a “book” of “thinking on paper,” and so far it is thinking about weight loss. Obviously, I don’t intend and could not think about weight loss every day to the tune of a thousand words; it would be nice, but I don’t expect this, if I could “think on paper” each day, thinking about self-mastery, and so get my book written.
Diary, 10/20 to 10/31/19
Watched Big Fish last night and fell in love with it a second time, perhaps again especially because of Alison Lohman. But it is a magical movie done absolutely right. There are too few such movies; The Wizard of Oz comes to mind as a comparison, though Fish is more about relationships and communication than Oz’s outright fantasy. One thing I absolutely hated about Big Fish that would not occur to many people, I think: the hero “falls in love at first sight” and spends three years laboring to find out who she is. This is pathological, yet a commonplace of “romance,” truly terrible behavior made to look supremely attractive, a complete mischaracterization of “true love”...
Diary, 9/9 to 9/17/19
Watched Rashomon and Throne of Blood yesterday evening. Toshiro Mifune, who stars in both, seemed to me a pretty terrible actor: he false-laughs his way through the former, and yells all through the latter. Granted, his facial expressions are remarkable. Rashomon is very effective and seldom drags, even though I’ve seen it three or four times previously; the actress was good, though her crying was no more convincing than...
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