What is the expression—believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see? I’ve made references to capitalism throughout these essays, and how I think it’s bad. Big whoop. You might be sympathetic to this worldview, it might make some kind of sense to you. And yet, we…
Often, when you find yourself in a psychiatric facility, they give you a puzzle to work on. This is, of course, after a cop takes away all your…
Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as…
My father is chess. I make up the rules as I go along. It was the earlier days of the internet, and he had discovered that he could find the thin Avalon…
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Note: Over the coming weeks, I’ll be posting the entirety of a manuscript I’ve been working on for several years. It is an essay collection about board…
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Mental illness is what we call it when sensitivity lies supine, exposed to the horrors of civilization. It requires enormous insensitivity, feigned or…
Marypat always pays me the finest of compliments, which means more because she’s a charming person with an interesting name. Or does it mean less? Nah…
The first thing I see is one of those oceanic feeling mega dumpsters. Throw yourself in, or, at the very least, throw some bit of detritus over the…
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