Suicide Pt. 2
“Life will get better” This is the trope offered to someone in the grips of suicidal ideation. Pain is ephemeral, temporally constrained. You may think now is bad, but the […]
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Contradiction
“I’m 27 years old, never had a girlfriend. I feel suicidal.” “Love will find you when you’re not looking for it,” she replies. “I spend my time indoors… wanking – […]
Sensitivity
Words are coming out of my mouth, but they seem detached. The effluent flows uncontrollably into the swarming background fuzz. I could, like Deepak Chopra or someone whose diet consisted […]
Tabula Rasa
“What have you been up to since we shared a womb together?” This was one of the first questions that surfaced in the mind of Paula Bernstein when she encountered […]
Numbers Game
Whether or not you’re a hipster, you’ve probably heard of Robert M. Pirsig’s bestseller Zen and the Art Motorcycle Maintenance. It’s a story about a father and son who take […]
Impotence
In October 2012, the Canadian Senate approved a bill to allow the cull of 70,000 grey seals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The intention of the cull was to […]
5 Reasons Pornos are like Martial Arts Films
My foray into reductive, click-bait, list type articles on Buzzfeed was short-lived. Oh well, here’s my article that, for some reason, didn’t get to the front page. 1. The plots are […]
Profile (Part I)
Unfortunately, the privacy of this blog was drunkenly violated by a colleague of mine who I can only refer to as Edward B. No, wait, that’s too obvious. How about […]
Prologue
My relationship with women has been much like my relationship with the Reading Rooms at the British library, in that my attempts to be inside them continue to be unsuccessful. […]
Confessions of a neurotic dater 