2012 New Year's Resolutions

#1. Stay anchored.

This Year Was For Dreaming

Barney Sellers

Next year is for doing.

So Glad That's Over

Love the holidays.

Joyeux Kwanzaa mon frère

ou n’importe quelle autre fête de circonstance à cette époque de l’année 

I'm Dreaming

Just like the ones I used to know.

Happy Holidays From Me and The Boys

You're always in our thoughts.

Dies Natalis Solis Invicti

Happy 4,567,000,000th Birthday to the Invincible Sun, today December 22, 2011. Wishing you many, many more.

When Out on the Lawn There Arose Such a Clatter...

I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.

A Christmas Carol - Still Relevant Social Indictment

"A Christmas Carol," an indictment of 19th-century industrial capitalism, by 21 year-old Charles Dickens, was published on this date, December 19, 158 years ago in 1843.  It is still needed.

On Shelves Now

Just in time for the Holidays.

Stages of Grief - Jewish Version

Depression
Bargaining
Depression
Comedy
Psychoanalysis
Acceptance

Hmmm... Where Am I?

And where is my mind?

The People's Car

Volkswagen Transporter

Business in the front, party in the back.

Awww, Man...

Harry Morgan died today.

Jonathon Franzen and Jonathon Safran Foer Teach Writing

The Writing Lesson

Thanks anyway Jon and Jon. I'll take it from here.

Mark Twain Day

Samuel Langhorne Clemons, b. Nov. 30, 1835

Worked as typesetter, river boat pilot, silver miner but finally found success as a writer. Lost fortune ($7.5 million in our money) on an invention to automate typesetting. That made him less funny, but he plugged along and kept working. Thankfully.

p.s. Happy Evolution Day!

"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" by Charles Darwin published on November 24, 1859.

Thankful Today for Sgt. Rock of Easy Company

Sgt. Rock of Easy Company

And all the heroes, living and dead.

Don't Wake Me Up

California dreamin' (on a winter's day).

Occupy Pippa

You're a lion Harry. Take what's yours.

Dear Future,

Late-2000s Financial Crisis - a.k.a. Global Recession 

We're sorry, really. Okay?

What Up G?

Know'm sayin'?

Most Wasted of The Vast American Wasteland

Maury Povich and Paul-Faulhaber

Maury Povich: Making America hate blacks, one show at a time.

Do You See These Claws?

Do not, sir, underestimate me. I will tear you up.

All Saints Day

In honor of all the saints, known and unknown.

Who Wants Seconds On The Mind Games?

I do! I do!

Bring On The Night

All dressed up....

Rapt with Anticipation

Wishing you great success in apple bobbing and other mischief.

Stare If You Dare

Tumblr is Better For Photos

Peter Marlow, 1996

Blogspot is better for words.  I'll stay with Blogspot anyway.

And This Is Life Eternal

Luke 10:27

L.A.'s Fine

The sun shines most the time, and the feeling is laid back.

Before You Diagnose Yourself...

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

Come On.... Really?

You made me miss Barney. I got all dressed up. I came outside. And you play me like this? Really??

Not Delusional

Just emotions overwhelming regular cognitive functioning.

Problem Is...

You can't get there from here.

Weekend Plans

Rock Out With Friends

Been Dealing With A Whole Lot of Pointlessness

But enough about me. What's new with you?

Episodes of Reactive Dysphoria

With chronic feelings of emptiness.

Patterns Unstable and Intense

Patterns of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.

My Secret Garden

Hey, this is my secret garden. What are you doing here? Get out.

Get Me A Ticket

I don't care how much.

Stay Close

It's a jungle out there.

I'm Not Like Every Other Girl

I'm going to make something great of myself

Sock Monkey

Frantically avoiding real or imagined abandonment

It's Hard to Face My Reality

It won't go away.

Can't We All Just Get Along?

Präses Nikolaus Schneider and Pope Benedict XVI

Now about this Martin Luther fellow...

Endless, Nameless

Nirvana, Nevermind, Sept 24, 1991

Anniversary of "Tomorrow's the Big Day Boys. Sink Or Swim..."

September 1991 - big month.

Nevermind

Blewmymind.