Operators And Things: The Inner Life Of A Schizophrenic By Barbara O'Brien.

"The ways in which she is cynical and the things that she's scared of are really relatable, you know. And life is scary at times, life hurts, things can be painful, and everyone has moments of like, "Ugh, it's too much. I'd rather opt out." I like the phrase JOMO, which is the opposite of FOMO. The Joy Of Missing Out. That's kind of where 22 is residing at the beginning. Lot of JOMO."

— Tina Fey on her character 22 in the Disney Pixar film Soul (2020), "Pretty Deep for a Cartoon" featurette

the issue of Nature celebrating 50 years of Hugh Everett's Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics (and an excellent pastiche of an SF pulp cover)

---stolen from Moshe Feder, who actually tracked it down

"go read King Lear to see the anarchy and wolfishness, the primitive regression that result from a sentimental deconstruction of social institutions. Stormy nature, in our hearts and beyond the gates, is ready to consume us all. Next read the Oresteia to reflect on the evolution of law and order out of barbarism and vengeful privatism. The egalitarian fantasy is an Arcadian myth revived and propagated in the past twenty years by feminist politicos. This is the kind of nonsense you get when you spend more time reading fifth-rate contemporary women writers than you do dead white males like Aeschylus and Shakespeare. […] I am saying that many of the problems between the sexes are coming from something prior to socialization, a turbulence that has to do with every boy’s origin in a woman’s body, a mother’s body, and the way he is overwhelmed by this huge, matriarchal shadow of a goddess figure in his childhood. And I feel, after so many decades of studying this, that men are suffering from their sense of dependency on women, their sense that at any moment they could be returned to that slavery and servitude they experienced under a woman’s thumb, when they were a boy in the shadow of the mother. I got this from studying all world culture, and comparing and noticing how often there were these patterns in many different cultures. Many things that erupt in rape or violence, battery and so on, are happening when a woman is pushing that button of fear and dependency."

— Camille Paglia, The Joy of Presbyterian Sex (1991) & Interview with Emily Culbertson (1992) in Sex, Art, and American Culture

I feel this!!!

"The vast majority of men’s leisure time is screen time, including video games and pornography. […] There is no risk involved, no exposure to hardship or danger in the least. It is, as Regnerus calls it, cheap sex. And it cheapens everyone involved." — Josh Hawley, Manhood (2023)

beating myself up over this til I get to my appointment

Crazy appears deemed a pejorative by some who work in mental health

Emilie Autumn - Girls! Girls! Girls!

"The story of Pemberton and Coca-Cola is widely known, the stuff of urban legend. Back then, carbonation was a big deal, requiring special high-pressure jets to force enough carbon dioxide into a solution. There was no method for reinforcing standard glass bottles, so carbonation had to be done in pharmacies with special equipment and drunk on-site. This became known as the soda fountain. Thus, Coca-Cola was originally sold only in pharmacies. But there was another reason as well.

What is not widely known is that Pemberton was a morphine addict, after being wounded in the Civil War. The reason he developed his sacred formula was a long-standing attempt to wean himself off his addiction."

The Morphine Addict, 1894 by Santiago Rusiñol (Spanish, 1861–1931)

"Be gone vile worthless brute! I'm busy languishing in my own divine splendour on a frequency you couldn't ever, possibly, fathom."