Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes. Mokokoma Mokhonoana Five down, two to go. And the two we have left are doozies (Huh, that’s actually a word and that’s how you spell it, how about that?). I considered the first …
Isn’t it funny. I’m enjoying my hatred so much more than I ever enjoyed love. Janet Fitch, White Oleander Wrath. Unlike some of our previous expositions, everyone understands this one from the onset. We all have an image of Wrath, an anecdote or association that we can conjure at hearing the word. And, also unlike …
I have a soul of lead // So stakes me to the ground I cannot move. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet I’d like to relay a bit of irony right off the bat. Every article written for this site – every single one of them – I wrote the day of publication. And every one …
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby Welcome back, my friends, to the land of remedial introspection. At this point we’ve covered Gluttony and Avarice, two of the three Deadly Sins that I’ve come to …
I want the world // I want the whole world // Don’t care how // I want it now Veruca Salt, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Greetings friends, and welcome to week two of my wonderfully uplifting delve into sin’s grip on the world and what we can do in our own lives to …
Don’t ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next product! Jay, Red Letter Media Well, here we are. After spending entirely too long choosing a title (One I’m still not overjoyed with, but deadlines are deadlines) and the order in which I’d be covering the subjects, the day is upon me. But …
No, I don’t need no help // I can sabotage me by myself // I don’t need no one else // I can sabotage me by myself. – Paramore, Caught in the Middle Pictured above: Me. Ohai there, everybody. Turns out yes, I’m still alive. No, I haven’t succumbed to whatever flavor-of-the-month terrible thing is …
Before you were born, you were nothing more than an indistinguishable lump of unformed matter. After death, you simply will return to that nebulous state… And yet, people sacrifice pleasure on earth in the hope that pain will be avoided in an after-life. The fools don’t realize that, after death, pain and pleasure cannot exist: …
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. Plato, The Republic Kind of a lot going on in the world these days, huh? Seems everywhere we turn, there’s another crisis brewing or already in full effect, each thing demanding your attention and – ultimately – …
It shocks me how I wish for…what is lost and cannot come back. Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story Hoo, boy. The entertainment media sphere is in an interesting spot, isn’t it? I know, if you’re around my age you’ve been saying for a while now that there doesn’t seem to be …
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