POST DESCRIPTIONS

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Labels beneath each post on the main page (click to arrange posts by heading) denote categories, at this point, two: “speculation” and “personal grievances.” 

The New Air Travel Humor

Racism. Terrorism. And flying on planes.

LABEL: speculation

Dear Hollywood

A letter to Hollywood followed by a satirical Greek tragedy pastiche.

LABEL: personal grievances

Have You Seen My Deranged Millionaire?

My deranged millionaire boss went missing in a starry void during the hurricane. Have you seen her?

LABEL: personal grievances

Fluxcracker

A fluxcracker is always delicious.
LABEL: speculation

Dodging the Caft

Why I dodge craft like I'd dodge the draft.
LABEL(s): speculation & personal grievances

Anything you can do ... I may or may not be able to do better 

There's  arguably no greater physical contest than the Olympics. For the first time, every participant nation has both a male and female competitor. But in the Olympics and in everyday life the boys and girls compete separately. For good and bad reasons, questioned and explored here.

LABEL: personal grievances

Killing the Infinite

Although we have great potential for change and growth, we bind ourselves, accept silent impediments and actively self-limit. How do most of us negotiate lives within a narrow standard deviation of the typical? What limits us? 
Part 1: introduction / physical
Part 2: corporeal
Part 3: neurological
Part 4: psychosocial / conclusion
LABEL: speculation

FacialCharacter 

Every body judges – everybody else all the time no matter what. It’s one of those tricky biology/sociology/free will entanglement issues. If we’re supposed to reserve judgment until we get to know a person, it might be soothing to our bruised ethical self-assessments if it were (provable/measurable) personality is written on the face.

LABEL: speculation 

Emergency in the Reading Room 

An anecdote turns into a discussion of the dissolution of traditional identity politics
LABEL: personal grievances 

"Welcome to our Ool" 
Review of AMC’s The Walking Dead and defense of cult material using personal pronouns.

LABEL: personal grievances

PSYCHONEURONEUROPSYCHO

Case for the power of psychosomatics and a brief history, and vindication, of Freudian ideas about the unconscious.

LABEL: speculation

In Between

From Eros (between mortal and immortal) to Kitchen Spanish (language hybrid) - a venture into the figurative space between distinct identities; the interminable process of adjustment impels creativity, production and the negotiation of new perspectives.

LABEL: speculation

Disdain is Unbecoming

Some jerk wrote an offensive opinion piece about being a super-cool-writer-man. Advice.

LABEL: personal grievances

Place and the New Collective Unconscious

As online documentary culture bleeds geographically, remains a sharing culture, and becomes unfathomably fast and nuanced, future decades might see the dissolution of place identity – an argument for present-minded living.

LABEL: speculation