I’ve been reading this collection of Bradbury short stories. Last night I read one called “The Murderer”. I believe it was written some time shortly before 1952. It’s about a guy who’s being committed for “murdering” electronics, and his interview with the psychiatrist includes this:
“Suppose you tell me when you first began [...]
Are you pretty sure that people at work don’t wash their hands after going to the bathroom and touching their bits? That’s gross. You should print this out and put it up. (I licensed it Creative Commons because I am such a big a fan of asepsis.)
One of my classmates recommended the book “Tuesdays With Morrie”. I checked it out from the library, read it, loved it… it gave me an idea of how someone could die mindfully and with meaning, and sort of supplanted these ideas I had of what it would like to die of a terminal illness [...]
It’s very bloggy just to post saying that I’m in crisis right now, but… I am doing it anyway. I’m in crisis. I will go into more detail about it more later, but I just want to shake my fist and pound things, because I feel sick, I am very behind in school, [...]
Welts, 2005
Hey, I kind of love this photo! I was going back into THE ARCHIVES today looking for particular photos, but whenever I do this I always end up getting sidetracked looking at photos of things I have completely forgotten about, sometimes for the better, and having one of those ungrounded trips down memory [...]
I was just thinking about “active listening” and generated a little revelatory hypothesis.
First let me define “active listening” as I know it. This is the listening technique I am supposed to use as a Medical Assistant, when I am taking a patient history. This is listening where you are entirely focused on the [...]
Sometimes I am overcome with excitement about one of my photographs and I need to share. It’s the show-and-tell compulsion.
I just ran across this one, which I took with my point and shoot one day while walking by my house. These are the naked trees that run along the Ravenna Meridian. What [...]
Thanks B.E.E. for inspiring some uneasy photography last night at the Arboretum.
I just finished reading Bret Easton Ellis’ first novel, “Less Than Zero”.
I’ve read three of his other novels– “American Psycho”, “Glamorama”, and “Lunar Park”. I did not like “Lunar Park” so much, but “American Psycho” and “Glamorama” were very good. They are absolutely insane and surreal. If you have experienced [...]
Richard and I watched Slumdog Millionaire over the weekend. For anyone who hasn’t seen this movie, it follows the story of three kids from a slum in Mumbai as they grow to adulthood. The child actors are freaking astounding… I think the last time I loved a child actor so much was Enzo [...]