Wise MadnessI just made an epic lion yawn. Let’s see if that kicks my brain into action. I was writing this in my head as I was experiencing it last night so this should be easy. Let’s see if it is. I won’t be an optimist or a pessimist but an empiricist. I’ll know soon enough. […]
I once said to a friend, “I love food, food likes me.” In one sentence summing up my relationship to both food and my insecurity with people. I’m bringing this up because I’m going to once again write about food. On Monday I bought cheddar curds for the purpose of making poutine. Yesterday I went […]
Yesterday’s adventure was with fingerprinting. I had to get fingerprinted for my job with the Census. It was in a strange place, the Opera House Hotel in the Bronx. Like many intra-outer-borough commutes it involves going towards Manhattan on one subway line and away from Manhattan on another. That always feels annoying even though I […]
Who took control of my brain? I got up early but I’m not sleepy. Most shockingly I remember what I’ve been planning on writing about, elections. I don’t mean the particular election coming up. I’m not talking about specific candidates. I want to discuss how we decide who wins. If there are only two candidates […]
Welcome to a rare early afternoon edition of Wise Madness. My soundtrack is WFUV‘s Sunday Supper hosted by John Platt. At least when I start. It was a long day and it might take more than the show’s remaining 45 minutes for me finish. It was long because I went on four county, two state, […]
I slept late yesterday and didn’t have time to write. Then I went out last night and didn’t get home until it was too late to write. Now I’m going out early today and don’t have time to write, yet I’m writing. This means I’m not going to write nearly as much as yesterday deserved. […]
Your Humble Diarist awoke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a sleepy awake person. It was not the dreams; it was my usual combination of digestive and breathing issues. But one of the dreams was uneasy. I was Rodin’s Thinker, and somebody placed me in the bed, and I rolled on my side […]
This is going to be difficult to write. I’m having an outbreak of annoyance with people and I’ve been expressing this annoyance. I’m not being overcritical, my critiques are right on as far as I can see, even in retrospect. The problem is that I’ve been too free to express them. Saying something stupid is […]
The topic of today’s sermon is intellectual honesty. This was supposed to develop naturally out of the theory I proposed yesterday that our missing socks fall through an interdimensional vortex where they form the raw material for new universes. I came up with that theory and the connection to intellectual honesty while I was in […]
I had a weird day yesterday, it disappeared into the aether. I woke up at 5 AM and went back to sleep. I woke up again around 7, turned on WFUV to listen to Thistle and Shamrock, and fell back asleep. Woke up a few other times and fell back to sleep. I finally got […]
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