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Some days I forget that I’m a raging addict. This many years into this project it’s easy to forget how close that line between sanity and insanity really is. It’s easy to forget the line moves, every second of everyday.
Using is not simply about stumbling and falling and slurring words, that’s fun fucked-up. That’s what bridesmaids do at weddings after too much white wine and champagne.
Using is crossing the line. [Read more…] about triple witching day
People talking to me a lot about end times, recently. Fires and floods and hurricanes and earthquakes. “Morons” with their fingers on the nuclear buttons.
These conversations make me realize I need, at the very least, a basic belief system to imagine there could be an end times. My belief system is wrecked beyond repair. I feel abandoned by the religion I was raised in. I see so much hate and wrong.
How do you vote against health insurance for children? How do you take away Medicaid from the elderly? How do you not care for soldiers after they come home blown apart, or oppose food stamps for hungry kids? How do you allow pharmaceutical companies to write health care law while 60,000 addicts will die in the US – THIS YEAR, and then sell yourself as a Christian nation? [Read more…] about Same as it ever was…
Sitting across from you, that smile.
How does someone fill a hospital room beyond capacity, every day? Standing room only.
People moving out of the way to allow passage near your chair, where you hold court.
Some of us are simply your jesters. Joking, trying to keep it light while inside we all crash to the ground.
You are a magnet. You’ve always been a magnet. [Read more…] about Its all good, bro
I think we should stop arresting people for drunk driving. People are going to drive drunk anyway, what’s the point in trying to regulate it.
And pedophiles, what is the big deal with pedophiles. A guy wants to look at a little kiddy-porn, Fuck a couple of nine-year-olds and everybody loses their minds.
Cancer, why fight cancer? Doctors and researchers have been fighting cancer forever. People are still going dying from cancer.
Heroin? Heroin has been around for thousands of years, what’s the big deal. Some people die, what’s the big fucking deal? People die crossing the street every day too but we don’t ban buses. Heroin doesn’t kill people, people with rigs hanging from their veins kill people.
Like Bill O’Reilly said, This is just the cost of being free.
At some point in the past decade, we completely gave up.
What has become the norm in America, what is become acceptable in America, makes me want to fucking puke
I had no idea at the outset of this writing experiment the level of help and support I would need. I was 3/4 of the way through writing my first book when I felt the chilling reality – What do I do with this mess?
People have no idea that the book publishing industry is so flooded with snake oil salesmen, flat out crooks and general creeps. It makes Washington DC look like a boy scout jamboree and a Mensa meeting.
You could spend your life savings and get nothing but empty promises and dead ends.
I have been fortunate beyond words to have stumbled – literally lost and stupid – onto some really great people. If you ever venture into the swamp I’d recommend you reach out to these guys.
[Read more…] about It does take a village to make me seem less a jerk
