haven't been on here in a while. i've been battling fairly severe depression. also, if you're on dialup, and, living in the woods, i have no choice in the matter, this site is maddeningly slow. it's like, click a link, get some coffee, take a nap, then come back to see if it's loaded. i've abandoned slow sites that were faster than this.

The 25 Most Exquisitely Sad Songs in the Whole World.

Beck is in there.

From Glenn Greenwald:"If you didn't watch Bill Moyers' documentary last night regarding the joint, coordinated behavior of our government and its media in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, I can't recommend it highly enough. You can watch it here."
Glenn Greenwald offers the best political insight on the net. He recently moved to Salon, so there's ( Read more... )

( Happenings around the house... )

This has been a favorite for years. It's good medicine if you're depressed. The live version is good too.

Some random favorites:
Beck - Lost Cause
Sigur Rós - Starálfur
Pink Floyd - Hero's Return
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Poe - Haunted (about her brother's book)

The cracks that remain
and the memories they stain
spread across the brain
like hands gone insane

Filling its spaces
with the dark's many faces
Leaving the suffered traces
of the void's sacred places

Fire your gun deep
into the void's tangled heap
and the horrors that you keep
will forever sleep


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My sister had to take me to see the therapist because the alternator went out in my car. I broke down while talking to the therapist. Something that's only happened once before with my old therapist, but that was due to Zoloft making me an emotional wreck. My only thought was that I didn't want my sister to know I'd been crying. I don't even ( Read more... )

From Scientific American:Hedonic adaptation helps to explain why even changes in major life circumstances--such as income, marriage, physical health and where we live--do so little to boost our overall happiness. Lyubomirsky, Sheldon and another psychologist, David A. Schkade of the University of California, San Diego, put the existing findings ( Read more... )

I finally got around to downloading the adblock extension for firefox, when I noticed the latest dev build blocks some elements before they load. As a modem user, this sped up my internet browsing by a thousand percent. I'm fairly sure it will improve broadband also, as I've seen some complain about a site pausing while an ad or script loads.

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Here's a few stories I've come across over the years that have really stuck with me. They're not for the faint of heart or easily squeamish. You've been warned.Ryan's Steakhouse

My anal fissure Bob

Dogs in Elk

The Worm Within