This isn’t a real post. I’m filling the empty spot for January 28, 2015, which will keep the Google Web crawlers happy. Tomorrow I’ll be doing many things I hate. Getting up at dawn (hate it). Being driven into Los Angeles (hate it). Going by freeway (hate it). In rush hour (hate it). Being interviewed…
Romance, rescue, and revenge
January 9, 2015
As far back as I can remember, I’ve been deeply affected by tales of romance, rescue, and revenge. It’s not a mystery why: We yearn for that which eludes us. I experienced true romance just once. It was only three years, and it ended more than two decades ago, but it still visits me in…
Leitmotifs
January 3, 2015
I must apologize for not keeping up on the e-mail correspondence and Facebook postings. This is a very difficult time for me, and it’s all because of a cat! Actually, Brother Cat is just symbolic of the leitmotifs that have defined me. A lot more is going on, but the damn cat is at the…
I live in a portal to hell
January 2, 2015
After twenty years here, I can say without fear of contradiction that my city is a portal to hell. There’s always hip-hop music playing (Doom! Doom-doom! Doom! Doom-doom!), car alarms going off, cars crashing, fireworks exploding, dogs barking, and people shouting unintelligible phrases over over. “Byoo drawer deh! Byoo drawer deh! Byoo drawer deh! Byoo…
A convincing argument that they don’t hate Jews
December 25, 2014
On July 13, 2014, I wrote a post titled “Everyday Berserkery,” about the sheer number of mental patients inhabiting the militaria-collecting community. It was one of the reasons I got out of it. To illustrate how demented, complicated, and feud-oriented it is, I mentioned some bizarre flap involving two guys named Prosper Keating and Arthur…
The best Christmas present I ever got
December 24, 2014
Later in this post I’ll describe the best Christmas present anyone has ever given me. A simple gift, it altered the course of my life. This post will (hopefully) show the impact that the present had on me. Christmas was always a major affair in my family, due to my father’s love of the holiday….
Explaining mental illness to stupid old Jew-haters
December 14, 2014
A couple of days ago, a Ron Paul toady named Martin went after me on Twitter for having the temerity to disagree with him. He was incapable of answering any questions I asked, and at the end of his hours-long spewage, he blocked me so that I couldn’t respond to him. Well, today he unblocked…
Fire burns, but…
December 13, 2014
Last night I had a dream that was brought on by hate mail. It was a very unpleasant dream, but it led me to finally understand why I’ve been so doggedly building up the planet’s largest collection of World War I flamethrower photos. Hate mail caused the dream, the dream made me go through my…