0941 by Jeff Hess
5.02 miles in 28:59 minutes at an average speed of 10.2 miles per hour.
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0630 by Jeff Hess
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Alabama state motto: At least we’re not Mississippi.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Found in my electronic chapbook.
…. doctors should admit they are often guilty of a sort of reverse alexithymia, attributing pain to depression simply because the pain does not respond to the treatment the doctors think should work. p. 232
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
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1044 by Jeff Hess
Previously…
In the 20th century our societal bias and fear of godless communism led many to misunderstand the dictum of Karl Marx that religion is the opiate of the masses to mean that both opiates and religion made people stupid and docile. That was not what he intended. Marx did not attack religion, but rather recognized that from his 19th century perspective, religion, like opiates, relieved pain; in this case the mental pain inherent to the labor class in early industrial societies. It made it possible to rise for work in the morning, to endure 12 hours of brutal toil and return home to fall into an exhausted sleep week after six-day week.
Beginning with the post World War II industrial boom and the rise of the Consumer Society a different kind of mental anguish took hold in America, Continue Reading »
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0941 by Jeff Hess
5.06 miles in 30:42 minutes at an average speed of 9.7 miles per hour…
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0630 by Jeff Hess
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Xerox and Wurlitzer will merge to produce reproductive organs.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Found in my electronic chapbook.
Metaphor as mediator between thought and emotion.
The concept of alexithymia [the inability to read one”s own emotions or the loss of words for one”s feelings] brings up unpleasant memories of others explaining us to ourselves, the primal case being a parent saying, “You”re not angry, dear, you”re just tired.” To be told that we don”t know how we feel offends our sense of identity, of having privileged access to our own mental states. It would seem that if we have just experienced something, then we must know how it feels. p. 232
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
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1853 by Jeff Hess
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1632 by Jeff Hess
From Blackheart Cleveland:
It”s just… tiring; the same people year after year, trying gimmick after gimmick to get someone to hand them money. That”s the way people seem to operate in Cleveland. How can I trick people into funding my pet project? How can I scam some cash for my business associate? Screw whether the project is viable, or whether it even needs money to be a success in the first place. What”s in it for me?
You know what… trying to bootstrap your ideas in order to make a buck is the American way. There”s nothing wrong with that. But pretending that your motives are altruistic while doing so is scummy shyster behavior. Be honest, motherfuckers. Admit that you”re out for yourselves, to feed your egos, to make an easy buck. You”ll feel a lot better about yourselves – it will be freeing. Come out of the closet. And, in case you didn”t know this, your efforts at marketing improve nothing. Try harder.
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1117 by Jeff Hess
One of the incentives to write during my time Gone Thinking was the nightly reading sessions where more than 30 of us would gather in the lodge to read what we had written that day. That reward and reinforcement are two of the reasons that I believe that writing groups that meet any less often than weekly are of little use; there’s just too much material to read, hear and consider after more than a week’s writing.
My life’s goal has been to write every morning. I’ve had uneven sucess over the years with doing so, but I know that when I sit in front of the keyboard at the same time each morning, it becomes easier and easier for Calliope to perch upon my shoulder and cheer me on. Continue Reading »
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1115 by Jeff Hess
5.06 miles in 29.43 minutes at an average speed of 10.1 miles per hour…
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0630 by Jeff Hess
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Friends don’t let friends take ugly men home.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Found in my electronic chapbook.
…in mixed states such as agitated depression, features of mania and depression do not cancel each other out to produce a normal state; instead, the add up to tormented states of frozen or unsatisfiable desire. (T) p. 222
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
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