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It's the end of the year and I'm marking time
“Americans can’t deal with death unless they own it.” -David Wojnarowicz My head fell down and could not get up this year. I can’t really say what it is…
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May 2023
(7). no more
Self-awareness has become a poison. Postmodernism has colonized our minds. When you hear people whining about lack of consensus reality, this is why. We…
May 30, 2023
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(7). no more
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(6). love and other games
For me, love is the great game. Saccharine and sentimental, yes, and I’m sure that many people resent the comparison. “Many” people is probably a bit…
May 9, 2023
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(6). love and other games
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April 2023
(5). the binds that tie
Most days, I feel like a mad prophet, screaming and slobbering. I walk the emptied streets of a numbed empire, stepping on people’s feet. Getting into…
Apr 15, 2023
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(5). the binds that tie
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March 2023
(4). clinic
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…
Mar 6, 2023
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February 2023
(3). puzzling
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…
Feb 22, 2023
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(2). trash culture
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…
Feb 8, 2023
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January 2023
(1). my father is chess
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…
Jan 29, 2023
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love and other games (introduction)
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…
Jan 19, 2023
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November 2022
the prophet
Mental illness is what we call it when sensitivity lies supine, exposed to the horrors of civilization. It requires enormous insensitivity, feigned or…
Nov 11, 2022
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the prophet
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September 2022
moisturize me
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…
Sep 18, 2022
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moisturize me
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A puzzle
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…
Sep 7, 2022
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