Journal created:
on 24 January 2002 (#449103)
Updated:
on 5 February 2025
"I look neither forward, where there is doubt, nor backward, where there is regret; I look inward and ask myself not if there is anything out in the world that I want and had better grasp quickly before nightfall, but whether there is anything inside me that I have not yet unpacked."
—Quentin Crisp—
"A civilization which for any reason puts a human life at a disadvantage; or a civilization which can exist only by putting human life at a disadvantage; is worthy neither of the name nor of continuance. And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea."
—James Agee—
"The calm is but the wrapper and envelope of the storm."
—Herman Melville—
abstraction, aesthetics, airplanes, alternative, american lit, anti-capitalism, antidepressants, anxiety, architecture, beer, bees, birds, cats, climate change, clocks, comic strips, cooking, critical geography, critical theory, democracy, depression, disasters, diy, dysthymia, dystopias, earth science, east tennessee, forteana, fountain pens, gardening, hating trump, heresies, history of philosophy, hyperbole, informal logic, judaism, juggling, kant, liberalism, maps, marxism, melville, moby dick, modernism, mst3k, nukes, philosophy, poetry, political economy, political philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology, radical philosophy, sci fi, sherlock holmes, sleeping, soccer, socialism, spiders, the appalachians, the frankfurt school, the left, the manhattan project, utopias, watchmaking, watergate, wittgenstein, wodehouse, zines