Blast from the past

The Tor.Com discussion of Thomas M. Disch's Supernatural Minnesota series has reminded someone of this fascinating interview with Disch by Paul Di Filippo.

Powerful placebo medications

Footpads selling foot pads

Thanx to andrewducker

Living in the present

Talking to my shrink yesterday, I finally realized that Living in the Present is not a right or wrong way to live one's entire life but a tool, a strategy, that can be a good or bad one under specific circumstances. At the Fellowship later (Thursday is my Mental Health Day), I recognized one application: In the present I often want to do drugs. At the point, it is a good idea to get my ass out of the present and start living in the past, where every time I did drugs, I wound up getting greedy and making a mess, and in the projected future, where if I repeat the same actions, I get the same results.

I'm sure I exaggerated the extent to which I was surrounded by Zen Fascists who insisted that if I wasn't living in the present all the time, I was doing it wrong, but I was probably not entirely mistaken. Being on the introvert spectrum, I am not terribly fond of living in the present, but recognizing it as a tool should help me do it when appropriate.

Just like when he was in office

Dubya claims that his memoir is his own work. Lending credence to that implausible assumption: Chunks of it are cut & pasted

Thanx to coyotegoth