I'm actually skeptical that the culture of self-esteem and participation trophies and "everyone is a winner" is a significant problem (although it's not constructive). Kids are smart enough to figure out how things really are. I think one of the major problems in our culture is that we don't talk about how to deal with failure enough, because clearly only losers have to deal with failure.

Not sure what prompted this dream, but I dreamt of a totally alternate version of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" where George Peppard's character (and by extension, Truman Capote) was really a CIA assassin (maybe it's just the fact that he was Hannibal in "The A-Team"?)

Literal brain-fucking. o_O

I'm totally getting the auditory hallucination thing that I've read some pet owners get.

I've got no one.

Where have I been? What have I seen?

Gary the Tolkien Geek has been reposting blog posts that analyze the text of

The Lord of the Rings

On Monday, I drove across the Bay Bridge to visit B and we shot the shit about relationships (or more accurately in my case, the lack thereof.) On one hand, this past summer was one of the most action-filled in my life. I've met more women in this one year than I ever have before.

I love personality tests.

I have finally found a use for this pen. Of course, I'm not sure if I want to keep writing on paper if I really put up that website. I suppose this will then be reserved for all the deep problems that I do not want to expose to the world.

  I am to wonder, I am to wonder
Dreaming of finishing this book
  flipping pages until it's over
                         but it's never over
remembering flames, the buildings all lit up
amidst the burned-out wreckage

The rain trickles down; drizzle patters against the asphalt and the concrete