Protected: The Bucket List

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Culture Wars 1 – Now Accepting Applications for BAMFs

My suspicion (which Dawson certainly bears out as anecdotal evidence) is that the more money you have, the less fucks you give about what other people think. Rich people do all sorts of crazy, fucked up shit, and they never deal with the consequences of any of it. Any of it! Rich people don’t go to jail in this country. Not if they have money. Poor people go to prison. Rich people go to rehab. Behaving yourself is a strictly middle-class value, one of those barriers instituted back when the middle class first came into play.

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The Subaltern Speaks

The next person to tell me Barack Obama is an African-American president is going to get punched in the face.
I’ve become alarmed at the pace with which I’m acquiring new friends these days – it’s putting a serious dent in my plans to die bitter and alone, which has been a tradition amongst men in [...]

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Physician, Heal Thyself: Part 1, Sexual Dysfunction

I am not a humble person. There are times (thankfully past) when this was not always the case, but I can say pretty confidently (see what I did there?) that I am generally pleased with myself. This is because I live in a very safe zone, which, like all simulacra, feels very much like the real world until you start to poke around too much.

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Jumper

Besides being the post where I brag about having seen Third Eye Blind in concert (long after they were cool, but nobody needs to know that), it’s also the one where I explain the rather cryptic diversion that I took in my last post  about suicide. I stated there that killing yourself is a pretty complicated [...]

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Alternative Sexuality

Part 1 on this here.
        As part of my unending quest to understand life / pass the time until the coffee wears off enough that I can sleep, I’ve been playing the part of gender iconoclast. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that there’s a small (large) element of [...]

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