In defense of alcohol
So, it’s hot out there, I’m bored, and if I go to sleep right now I’ll wake up at 2 a.m. feeling like a Victorian ghost with Wi-Fi. Let’s do this. Let’s defend something objectively bad. Or, at the very least, very dangerous.
Sisyphus
The trap of carpe diem
So there, I said it: carpe diem is excellent advice. Which is unfortunate, because it’s also terrible advice. Maybe it requires balance… No. Fuck balance. We roll. So, yeah, Tolstoy said it better: “Life is meaningless because death swallows everything.” Good work, people. Happy Monday. Let’s wrap it
What to do now that the world is going to hell?
So, here we go again. Yes, yes, I had a huge case of writer’s block, but I found motivation in the same place a lot of people before me have: Our own impending doom. What do we do now that the world is going to hell? It’s easy
Don't take things personally or, allow me to be an asshole
So, you’re back again for more. I can’t say I understand you but — no, you know what? No respect either. This morning, while talking about that piece about misery, someone said one of those forbidden phrases that immediately sets off alarms in my head: “Don’t take things
On how misery scales or, license to feel bad
If you spend some time around people — and I can’t stress enough how much I recommend avoiding this if at all possible — you’ll hear conversations centered on how someone has it bad, and how others have it worse. Just now, I saw a post mocking former child actors
On not being good enough
Oh, the quest for perfection. Reminds me of my handsome, arrogant, oh so difficult younger self. He thought - wrongly - that he could do anything. I know, I speak as a 100 year old man, and it’s because I feel just like that. So much has happened. Such a lot
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Here we go, pushing again
The choice of Sisyphus as a name is not gratuitous and definitely not cheap. Life feels just like that for me. From a very young age, I’ve had to accept the fact that I’m very intelligent, just because I’m aware of a lot of stuff that most