Welcome to my Blog
Why I have set up this blog:
I'm stranded here in the Japanese snow country (yuki guni) and, at the moment, slightly unhinged.
I need contact with the outside world, assuming something called the outside world still exists.
I'm willing to make that assumption, if you are.
However reluctantly.
I've lived in Japan so long that I'm no longer an actual person. I'm more a composit of impulses, a sensitive relic with a reasonably cool car, although I do remain productive.] When I'm not talking to myself, in the grip of a temporary depression,
arguing with the dog, trying to teach English to Japanese teenage mutants, or figuring out what my Japanese wife (whom I desperately love) is talking about, I write. Fiction. Fiction being our last link to an impossible future, our only antidote, really, to surviving "reality" with some sense of dignity.
To paraphrase Nietzsche, "All we have to go on, assuming we're not total assholes, is what we can make up from moment to moment. The rest is just insidious garbage."
Nietzsche's point? Nothwithstanding his insanity, and total ineptitude with women, he was trying to tell us that it's not enough to be a living human on the planet. Existence is a condition, not a justification for anything. We all have to be artists, to invent our lives as we go, rather than merely subscribing to them with mindless enthusiasm.
The poets, even as banal as most of them are, have the final word.
So try to be a poet, instead of a simple dick head. Or is that one word?
Dickhead.
Call me Dickhead.
Not that any of this has anything to do with the blog that will eventually emerge in this space.
Not that anyone really cares.
Least of all, me.
Nevertheless, this site will deal will with issues that should matter: Writing, philosophy, the mind, sex, society, books, sex, politics, animal rights, tigers, wolves, polar bears, women, sex, dogs automobiles, religion (god help us!) music, guitars, Charles Bukowski, time, quantum mechanics, Japanese women, Japanese psychology, dogs (large breeds only), food, space, interior design, marriage, mindlessness (in all its forms), madness...and others, depending on time constraints and available energy.
I look forward to hearing from you.......
I'm stranded here in the Japanese snow country (yuki guni) and, at the moment, slightly unhinged.
I need contact with the outside world, assuming something called the outside world still exists.
I'm willing to make that assumption, if you are.
However reluctantly.
I've lived in Japan so long that I'm no longer an actual person. I'm more a composit of impulses, a sensitive relic with a reasonably cool car, although I do remain productive.] When I'm not talking to myself, in the grip of a temporary depression,
arguing with the dog, trying to teach English to Japanese teenage mutants, or figuring out what my Japanese wife (whom I desperately love) is talking about, I write. Fiction. Fiction being our last link to an impossible future, our only antidote, really, to surviving "reality" with some sense of dignity.
To paraphrase Nietzsche, "All we have to go on, assuming we're not total assholes, is what we can make up from moment to moment. The rest is just insidious garbage."
Nietzsche's point? Nothwithstanding his insanity, and total ineptitude with women, he was trying to tell us that it's not enough to be a living human on the planet. Existence is a condition, not a justification for anything. We all have to be artists, to invent our lives as we go, rather than merely subscribing to them with mindless enthusiasm.
The poets, even as banal as most of them are, have the final word.
So try to be a poet, instead of a simple dick head. Or is that one word?
Dickhead.
Call me Dickhead.
Not that any of this has anything to do with the blog that will eventually emerge in this space.
Not that anyone really cares.
Least of all, me.
Nevertheless, this site will deal will with issues that should matter: Writing, philosophy, the mind, sex, society, books, sex, politics, animal rights, tigers, wolves, polar bears, women, sex, dogs automobiles, religion (god help us!) music, guitars, Charles Bukowski, time, quantum mechanics, Japanese women, Japanese psychology, dogs (large breeds only), food, space, interior design, marriage, mindlessness (in all its forms), madness...and others, depending on time constraints and available energy.
I look forward to hearing from you.......
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