Remedial Life

I’ve had a strange feeling for the past few years. It’s a weird feeling of deep unease and unhappiness. It’s not depression – I know depression. It’s more like the feeling a detective in a film noir gets as they head into a (spoiler) trap. It feels like I’ve had life hit me over the…

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A Candle in the Deep, Dark Void

This is my third consecutive year of not knowing what the next year will hold. I’ve had a number of these years. In 2001, I didn’t know where I would go to college for a few months. It was panic inducing and frightening. Then my parents solved that problem for me. It happened again when…

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Malignant True Believers

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. – Winston Churchill On the way back home from my 30th birthday, I sat next to a 20-year-old, talkative Christian missionary to India. Aside from chattering about how much she was afraid of enclosed spaces and how beautiful God’s creation (nature) and…

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!!!!0

I’m 30! XXX! Egads! I flew down to North Carolina to spend it with people I love. My girlfriend gave me seven days of birthday presents, my best friend made me a cake, and people rented out a beach house so we could hang out by the beach. In the last half-hour of my 20s,…

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Found Art

Attn: Mr. David Bradley, First, congratulations on winning the National Championship last night in Men’s basketball. Second, because Duke has a great philosophy on basketball and you are the Director of Basketball Operations, I thought you might be interested in the origin of Philosophy. So I am sending you a copy of my new book…

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Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-nges!

Given the fact that I’m terrible at posting here – and the fact I started a half-dozen separate ventures (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) – I am going to treat this as the hub of all things me. I love ideas that seem like a good idea at first!…

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