(I'm acutely aware, though I'm surely the only one, that I have used that more than once. Well, I like that song I guess ( Read more... )

And, as an added bonus, I am posting cut-and-paste crap instead of saying something meaningful. Because I only have a few dozen things I "was going to say" but never did. Good for me ( Read more... )

It's a topic for another day my obsession with originality, the strange mixed feelings I have about doing something as "mundane" as what everyone else does. I think that is one of the underpinnings of an eventual elitism I'm loathe to indulge, but clearly I am prone towards it as surely as I am to self-deprecation. I dunno how those two could co ( Read more... )

(I thought about "Don't worry, be happy", but Mad magazine is cooler than Bobby McFerrin, so that one got precedence ( Read more... )

Oh yeah.. Now I remember the main thing that keeps me from writing. Everything I say is shit. Not that I feel bad about it.. I mean, relative to, say, all the idiots who flock to vote for the big 2 (R/D) every election, I'm a damn genious. The only reason there is a big, scary "they" which is government and is out to get you is because you are ( Read more... )

I can't quite understand what keeps me from writing. Perhaps just the fact that whenever I do it quickly becomes immensely time-consuming, and as a result takes more energy to finish than I'd anticipated on starting. And partly, I am just kinda lazy; I've never had much discipline (not to be confused with self-control, which I have in spades). ( Read more... )

vV Oh, and obviously, one of those things I don't practice is writing.. here. I totally don't need to add this, but doing so is the opposite extreme of discernment. Vv

There are so many things that I don't do simply because I am afraid to practice them. "Practice makes perfect", rather than "is", is something that is somehow too.. [complex] to make it past my mind. Everything I do, or should do, suffers for it, save those few things I actually concentrate my attention on. It is so pathetically evident, in ( Read more... )

It would be absolutely impossible to overthrow our government by force of arms, even if it overextended its might far, far beyond the current state AND the hopeful revolutionaries were well organized and armed and amply supplied with warm bodies. It would be nearly impossible to overthrow/reform our government from the inside (I thought to write ( Read more... )

I really ought to pull the plug completely on this "online life", just erase everything and finally close a chapter which has run too far. I'm sure there are people who wouldn't be happy about that at first, but I don't think there is anyone who wouldn't get over it. Not to mention that doing things just to please others (not to be confused with ( Read more... )