January 2009
18 posts
“Great Grandma, you had feelings?”
“Yeh. It was a disease I acquired in my adolescence. But I got over it.”
Hehe
December 2008
21 posts
… all we did was joke around. It was kewl. For some reason i am fealing bad.
9/16/1996, Journal Entry
At 14, at least I was still being honest.
Progress = Culture ?
My need is so overwhelming and time, in my obsession, so short-
12/25/48, Journal Entry
At 15, Susan Sontag had already realized that life was short.
One way to look at things
One way to look at things is to see everything we do as a coping mechanism.
Then, of course, you grow older, pudgier, stouter, portly. You have children or get a job or are drawn by fate to one life or another. Only the deranged don’t notice that the possibilities for their life are narrowing. And only the happy look around and say, that is fine. I accept that I will never be a famous minor television personality. At least I have written this wonderful book of...
In more than 100 studies, researchers have asked participants questions like, Is the person on the videotape lying or telling the truth? Subjects guess correctly about 54 percent of the time, which is barely better than they’d do by flipping a coin.
The Evolution of Deceit
It seems like
the appropriate response to someone who tries to change you is to hate them and then go with their changes
The psychopath talks “entertainingly,” Cleckley explained, and is “brilliant and charming,” but nonetheless “carries disaster lightly in each hand.”
Suffering Souls
Hehe
Another Familiar Face on the Obama Team By PETER BAKER 35 minutes ago Betty Currie, the famously devoted personal secretary to President Bill Clinton, seen above in 1995, is assisting Barack Obama’s transition co-chairman, John D. Podesta.
So we’ve got an assistant assisting someone who is in co-charge of a whole bunch of people who will assist someone else who is transitioning and this...
I suppose an extreme superiority complex and ego-centricity can go either way. Either a will to baselessly manipulate people for personal stimulation in an otherwise unstimulating world or a sort of superficial sympathy to the plight of your underlings.
The Depressive and the Psychopath →
A recent article about the Bombay shootings on SepiaMutiny linked to this old article. It basically says that psychopathy is just a superiority complex and self aggrandizement taken to the extreme.
It might be that what makes art powerful is precisely that it blurs the line between reality and art. You take a piece of reality and show what it looks like when you take it to its logical extreme. If you can’t tell whether it’s art or reality, that probably means you’re on to something. If you force my hand I’ll be forced to draw. That means a lot more if I’ve...
The Renaissance
No one can kick it quite like Q-Tip.
Unlike all the other late night talk show hosts (Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Jay Leno, etc..) who I’m routinely embarrassed for, I can’t remember every being embarrassed for Conan O’Brien.
WatchJesus Walks with Me
Pride in One's Profession
… You are all about to embark on a profession that prides itself in collegial relationships. Your collegial spirit will be the most effective way to limit cell phone use in the library and maintain a quiet and clean library.
Good luck on your final examinations and have a wonderful holiday season. Thank you.
Daily Routines →
Strangers May Cheer You Up, Study Says →
The upside; we’re all in this together. The downside; we’re all in this together. Also, its quite possible that this study will be discredited in another year.
To be or not to be...
When I think about music, movies, and that type thing, I generally group them into one of two categories; ‘good’ or not ‘good’. For the most part, I tend to find myself gravitating towards the not ‘good’ side of things. Its quite possible that this is just because I have bad taste, but its also possible that its because stuff that is ‘good’ is...