Screw The Fridge…
I STILL want to be the kid in the spacesuit!
I STILL want to be the kid in the spacesuit!
Another nice set of doodles from Tumblr, providing yet another peek into the world of mental illness…
I Found this on Tumblr with no other information than the single line: “Me doing nothing while my life falls apart.”
I was watching the second of Saturday night’s two episodes of Doubt (a series that I found has already been cancelled while putting this post together) when one of the characters did something that was so much like something I’d do – something I’ve done so many times – she said what she really thought at the worst possible time!
How could I have been so insane, so arrogant, as to think I could actually achieve, here, something so grand as to demand your recognition, all the while knowing it would require of me the kind of courage I’d never been able to muster before. And yet, in the midst of this terrible sense of failure, I can’t help but miss the effort…
Funny thing about bad habits: they’re not only hard to break but, if you work at it hard enough, you can convince yourself that they don’t exist at all. Until, that is, something happens to Gibbs-slap you back into reality!
Not for the first time in my life, I look out upon a nation filled with people who believe that our democratic system failed us, big time, in the most recent presidential election. But can we really say that it did, even assuming the vote was fairly counted? No, but I think that determining the legitimacy of an election based on a fair counting of numbers is rather missing the point…
Who says Social Media serves no purpose?
As any of my readers will know, I watch a lot of “edutainment” style TV, including, but certainly not limited to, The Science Channel and The National Geographic Channel. The thing is though, while the programming does actually teach me a thing or two from time to time, the real benefit I get from watching…
Leon Russel’s “Tight Rope” has been playing over and over in my head for a least a week and I finally realized why this morning: the died on November 13 and the song was no doubt planted in my subconscious by my habit of falling asleep with my TV tuned to CNN. Truthfully, I’d be…