Living is a terribly humiliating proposition. If you make it through a single day without embarrassing yourself or feeling mortified for someone else, you’ve absolutely beaten the odds.
For Love of the Shame
Tag: social commentary
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The DEAD STAR PRESS website is officially live. Our brand new independent press is now fully operational. Please go to DEADSTARPRESS.com and check out our first promotional release, Thought & Other Absurdities (a compilation of my blog posts and a few extras), our call for submissions, and our logo merchandise. Get a free bookmark with [...]
Thoughts From Inside A Crumbling Society Vol. III
I’ll have the literacy with extra cheese and pepperoni. If they made retro Pizza Huts with red cups, jukeboxes, a couple of video games, and the pizza buffet and did Book It promotions for adults, it would change the world. Back then, the red cup was still only half-full, but there were refills in the [...]
The Ire In Irony
We have just participated in furthering the stupidity of our culture.
Haute Box
Many social groups are just as pretentious as those that boldly claim to be. Sometimes, those who seem as though they should be the most open-minded are this same amount of pseudo-pretentious. It's mostly because people are insecure, and we struggle with our need to belong. Once we feel we belong, we need to reinforce [...]
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