the closing of the american mind by Alan Bloom -- or -- the author's admission that he is old, useless and in the way.

Allan Bloom is a hysterical, raving, reactionary lunatic. He and his academia ilk are exactly the reason why education teaches kids nothing, because they know absolutely zero about the children they’re supposed to teach. mostly, this book is little more than a “get off my lawn” diatribe against any and all (race, sex, drugs, rock [...]

asshat's lament

unemployed

let down by friends

feel so low that not even

masturbation is appealing

introducing your dream literary agent

Do you have absolutely zero ideas for a book?

Or perhaps you just want to know how to properly use the little known literary trick, “ellipse-semi-colon style” (…;) properly in a sentence?

Then, here’s your man. But, fair warning: you probably don’t have the chops to get this dude to rep you.

i'm so sick of websites with comment sections for every pathetic spew of an article they publish

why the need to ruminate on every compartmentalized experience your imagination says you’ve gone through?

it’s one thing to be contemplative, another to worship your own narrow uniqueness, to let it dictate how you should be, and also how others should must accept you.

that’s a fucking deep-assed ditch you’ve dug there and now that you [...]

late night frustrations

Ok, what am I trying to say here? What do I mean?
I stare at the computer screen, rereading, rereading, until the screen saver comes on, until my eyes blow out of focus.
I mumble the words softly as I type, retype. The curses, they come out a lot louder.
This fucking goddamn shit fuck [...]

Road Trip!!!

Ah, there’s nothing like the feeling of a road [...]

books about books

I’m reading Nelson Algren’s “Notes from a Sea Diary: Hemingway all the way,” and came across this brilliant nugget in the story entitled, “July 14th Raft of a Summer Night.” Algren was wailing away at editors, publishers and critics regarding so many classic books being out of print, yet so many of those same classic’s [...]