Walk it down, talk it down
A taxonomy of terror? Yes, again with the apocalyptic and/or dystopic pics and books. Blame a conversation with my friend, S. So, to categorize: Apocalypse I. Caused by: A. Collapse i. slow-motion ii....
View ArticleIs anybody alive in here?
It’s far easier to end things than to figure out things past the end. Upshot: I’m having difficulty with the dystopias. I did manage to put together a chart, but it’s pretty spongy. I’d put in...
View ArticleNever enough
Be beautiful. Be smart (but not too. . .). Be supportive. Be thin. Be a wife. Be a girlfriend. Be a mother. Be everything. But not enough. It won’t be enough, not for him. Let it be stipulated that not...
View ArticleI am iron man
Or straw man—the same thing, really. This post’s edition of hay*-covered solemnities concerns that which threatens to bring down/is significantly degrading/has already brought down Western...
View ArticleHumans from earth, pt II
Why ontological? I like to make everything ontological, is one answer, but also because this is the level at which the question of being qua being occurs. What does it mean to be human? I suggested in...
View ArticleIf you decide to make the sky fall
I am not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew. I am not Hindu, or Buddhist, or Jain, Taoist, Bahá’í, Wiccan, Yazidi, Shinto, Zoroastrian, Sikh, or any sort of pagan or animist. I am not spiritual, and believe...
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