Category Archives: Life

emo perturbation theory

What is this thing they call sinking your roots into a place? DO you really notice when it’s happening? If you do, are you pleased to discover it? There is or should be a sense of foreboding as well: it … Continue reading

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Lifestyles of the poor and unglamorous

Glamour Bar is a lovely place, but when it’s packed and you can’t get your overpriced drink unless you want to wait like by the bar for half an hour like you’re waiting for food rationing, it’s not really my … Continue reading

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Using Google Reader to integrate Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, RSS, and other social media

This is my very own China-centric shanzhai method of integrating my social media life: This is a work in progress, so everyone feel free to comment: This might not work for you, because it depends on what services you use … Continue reading

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More kitty porn for ya

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Some interesting mental health articles

Manic Spending Puts Bipolar Patients at Risk for Financial Woes Many bipolar people already live in a boom-or-bust financial cycle, independent of the current economy. Spending sprees, after all, are common during manic periods. However, mania can be triggered by … Continue reading

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Pirouettes on the edge of madness: Bertrand Russell, me, and other fucked up peeps

With my own sanity and mental health at greater peril than ever before, i start reading, for some inexplicable reason, about Bertrand Russell’s personal life. I have read some of his books before, on happiness, marriage, etc. and of course … Continue reading

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My theory of cats

I am beginning to wonder if I like cats because they are needy the same way that i am or if I have begun to assimilate or emulate their psychology instead. The constant need for contact and affection: I wonder … Continue reading

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At home in the world

By accident I discovered a book, “The Left Bank: Writers, Artists, and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War”, by Herbert R. Lottman in my living room, piled among the many books that I have not yet read … Continue reading

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Drunken phrasings

there is an insidious loneliness that razes things it goes about its business with a grin like someone that knows that everything can be swept–perfectly–under the carpet. i cannot stay at gigs too long. because their creativity unnerves me makes … Continue reading

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It gets cold here in late September

“It gets cold here in late September”—I dont remember the rest of the song anymore. It was the autumn of 1999, probably around late September or early October. The place: the main cafeteria at the University of Washington, Seattle. I … Continue reading

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