How my kids’ disappointment with me is a sign they’re going to be alright — Despite my best efforts, I continuously disappoint both my kids. My cooking sucks, they cringe at my jokes, my life experiences are boring. If I give them more attention they ignore me, any less and they feel neglected. Nothing I ever do pleases them, and everything I do annoys them. …

Elon Musk keeps doing whatever he wants with impunity — Musk’s Minions are leaping to his defense like happy lemmings to the newsflash of the Twitter deal being placed “on hold,” yet another instance where the savant does just about anything to the endless accolades of his autistic army. Daddy issues aside, don’t these people have better things to do…

Our lips are loose and our strategy is flawed — Up until only a few weeks ago, NATO ostensibly had the goal of giving Putin a face-saving off ramp to end the Ukraine War. That was until Secdef Lloyd Austin, appearing in Kyiv alongside Secstate Blinken and Ukraine Prez Zelensky stated otherwise: Our new goal had become to weaken Russia…

Thomas Pynchon turns 85–years-old today — Happy 85th Birthday to my favorite novelist, Thomas Pynchon! Although his oeuvre chaotically oscillates between pure genius and total bullshit (sound familiar?), he essentially created the post-Melville modern American Encyclopedic Narrative. Two of his novels stand out, and IMHO are timeless classics: GRAVITY’S RAINBOW and MASON & DIXON. The former…

The Ukraine War is about to escalate with potentially dire consequences — Last in line at Conspiracy Con 2022, I’m nonetheless at an inexplicable loss about the Ukraine War, and feel in my gut that something significant is hidden. Call me cray, but a dangerous mystery lurks in plain sight. I’m down on the post-Berlin Wall fall backstory, how and why Russia…

The third Broadway revival of the 70s classic is a deliciously tainted treat, just like Mamet himself — Saw the third Broadway revival of AMERICAN BUFFALO last night with the GF, and we both loved it. Stellar cast, exquisite direction, and wonderful production of Mamet’s 1975 classic. Even though our view was partly obstructed — we had choice third row orchestra seats but the eccentric Circle in the…

Empty streets, abandoned dreams, and common sense on hiatus — I ran throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the other Burroughs almost every day of the COVID pandemic lockdowns. The invigorating daily exercise kept me fit and sane as I burned through 600+ miles, three pairs of Brooks running shoes, and hundreds of hours of earbud podcasts and Death Metal music. The…

How a sudden catastrophe revealed the barriers I’ve created to protect myself — Accidents happen in seconds, the shock retroactively distorting time and clouding memory. How we reflexively react with stay and play vs fright and flight reveals our souls. One second I was riding along at my usual brisk pace, feeling exhilarated in the cold air and warm sunlight, and the next…

Many opportunitistic researchers sadly undermine their own progress and destroy public trust — “Don’t eat the headlines that are too hot when cooked.” Sabine Hossenfelder again calls bullshit on Clickbait Physics and why we’ve been stuck for decades. When people say they don’t trust the government, big business, and science, that’s because these self-serving entities often lie and manipulate us. String Theorists are…