I only remember this place when I'm having a catastrophic depressive episode ( Read more... )

Sometimes the 'bad old days' are the only days you can stand to remember, the only time you can look back on with any sort of nostalgia or fondness or even just without the sort of pain that only longing and regret can generate everyone knows how it feels even if they don't ever bother to identify it or to put a name on it that tight low burn just ( Read more... )

It is absolutely goddamn bizarre to come here and remember that there was a time when I would write something down almost every single day. Some of it was good. Most of it wasn't. Sometimes I expressed my thoughts clearly. Often I did not. Nobody gave much of a damn, including myself ( Read more... )

I miss thinking that I could improve my life if I worked at it. I don't think that's true anymore. I'm not sure if it was ever true ( Read more... )

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Klaus Nomi performing Cold Song, an aria from Henry Purcell's "King Arthur", shortly before he died.

The worst part about living here is that you can only kill yourself once.

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The Irwin-Auger bit was created by a blacksmith but made famous by a pharmacist ( Read more... )

THE TANGIER TIMES -- NEWS YOU CAN USE

Dr. Edward R. Downel Found Dead

By JAMES T. THURSTON, Field Writer

Dr. Edward R. Downel, author of such controversial works as "The Way The World Ends", "The Secret Guide to History" and more recently "The Nature of Glass," was found dead in his Tangiers flat by a local constable after neighbors called to ( Read more... )

So, they finally did it ( Read more... )