I try to praise the mutilated world

I often wonder what it will look like to reach the point of not just surviving my misfortunes but being simply and profoundly grateful for every single thing that has ever happened to me. And why people who want things like that are so perplexing to those who don’t. Those who wonder, in their golden [...]

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Jimmie Dale Healer

Welp, I went ahead and signed up to put in my time and am delighted to find the Obama campaign has impeccable taste. Tonight’s local debate party will be kicked off with music by the world’s most charismatic outlaw who’s sly compassion is as legendary as his high and lonesome zensoaked warble. Jimmie Dale Gilmore [...]

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We call upon the author to explain

Doop doop I’m putting together that follow-up post as mentioned, can’t sleep while they’re filming FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS in my backyard and they’ll go til 4 AM again, no sleep and just got home from my 4th day in training and I couldn’t concentrate because of the clip in my head the last 2 days, [...]

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This is what cognitive behavioral therapy fixes & that is why it must be stopped

Bukowski: the shoelace a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still you can study them like pieces on a chessboard… it’s not the large things that send a man to the madhouse. death he’s ready for, or murder, incest, robbery, fire, flood… no, [...]

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good news for the tone deaf

This is from one of my favorite online essays of all time, at the humanistic psychologist Richard Grossman’s website, Voicelessness and Emotional Survival, which is filled with tools to embiggen understanding: Many students from around the world have e-mailed me about becoming a therapist.  “What do I need to learn?” they ask. One of the [...]

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About Sunday’s NY Times piece on MAD PRIDE

Does anyone think that was a decent shot of journalism? Then damn your eyes. Oh I can imagine an earlier me who would come away from that complete piece of shit grateful for the exposure and yay for recognition! But that column pissed off a lot of people in a number of ways I can [...]

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A message from my therapist

Look for better angels and the deepening well upon my return. Meanwhile, a bit of haldol might break your heart.

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Goddamn us, every one

Quote of the day, by John B. Adams: He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. I’m not a happy person and most of the time feel no need to navel gaze about my warm and glowing serenity quotient, but must say my attitude comes up short in terms of attitudinal expectations [...]

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