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Misery Movies: Episode 6 – Songs from the Second Floor
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In the latest episode of Misery Movies, the Misery Tourism crew discuss the Swedish surrealist black comedy Songs from the Second Floor. As always, the first half of the podcast is
Autassassinophile
Ghost virgin lying horizontal on the train tracks
Sweet Brown background bickers over syntax
Call, that would catch them; hands dusted in gutter glitter
So instead they specul
6 Surefire Ways to Conquer Your Writer’s Block (A Visual Essay/SEO Experiment)
1. Try some freewriting! Turn your internal filter off and just type whatever comes to mind.
2. Seek out a close friend and ask them for ideas. They know you better than yo
4 Poems on Stasis
Operation Ranch Hand
My desktop is a photograph
of a Vietnamese river delta,
post-Agent Orange.
The landscape has been
meticulously defoliated.
It is barren.
In the gr
Misery Movies: Episode 3 – Hard Candy
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In this episode of Misery Movies, we discuss the girl-power thriller/pedophile exploitation film Hard Candy. As usual, the discussion and reviews that comprise the first half of th
Suicide of a Clinically Depressed Predictive Text Emulator
A few weeks ago, I transformed Jaime Brew’s predictive text emulator into a depressed, self-loathing wreck by feeding it a collection of posts from my personal tumblr. I then
Musings of a Clinically Depressed Predictive Text Emulator
Depression is programming. That’s what we mean when we say we suffer from learned helplessness or that we struggle with self-destructive behaviors: our lives have become trappe
Suicides of Men I Never Knew
1
Memories of an 84 Year Old Co-Worker
They were together 18 years, and never married.
One night, after they had both been drinking, they had a fight.
He told her he was goin
Four Terrible New Psychological States That I Discovered While Watching the First Presidential Debate
Last night Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump debated for the first time. It was apparently the most widely watched debate in the history of American presidential politics. It wa
Traumatic Brain Injury
for Keith Lamont Scott & Brentley Vinson
after the fall
he sometimes sees things
that are not there.
the book becomes a gun;
the gun becomes a book.
he cannot distingui