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Saint Joeys Day (2021)
Happy Saint Joeys day! Patron Saint (and Loa) of lost causes and hopeless cases. Forty two today. I feel it, deep in my twitch fibers. And also in my spine,… Read more
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Cool by tenuous association
Pretty sure yesterday I was giving up coffee… forever! Having just watched a scary short on how anxiety juice blocks the adenosine receptors in your brain (which makes more receptors to… Read more
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A learning disability
My junk is on fire. I made the amateurish mistake of chopping up jalapenos for my breakfast scramble and then post consumption heading off to go and pee. The next… Read more
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Modern covenants
I’m sitting on the steps outside my daughters school waiting for her to come out. ‘What you reading?’. I loathe this particular mom. She’s absolutely awful. Today its stuffed into… Read more
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Fight Song
I’m eating Nutella out of the jar. Sometimes I like to lead with some of my less desirable traits, thereby subtlety framing the monologue with, ‘this guy is actually just… Read more
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I Ride.
I must be honest, for the last year, my morning routine has gone to absolute hell. I imagine I am not alone in this circumstance. But I’ve really let it… Read more
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Receiving your SIGNAL
Its actually surprisingly difficult to unentwined WhatsApp from our lives now. Damn you Facebook. I say ‘Damn’, but really I’m reaching for something stronger. I’m resisting the urge to launch… Read more
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Double standards
Hmmm… Protestors (with ideologies belonging to the left or right or whatever) can march down the street where you have your business, smash in the storefront window, take all your… Read more
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XXXXL
Ha ha. I think, somewhere right near the beginning I should probably say that I think Cosmopolitan is the tincture of evil. And likely been evil since…. forever. Well, since… Read more
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Don’t get bit (and other resolutions).
I am not a fan of resolutions. Mostly because I never stick to them and my tendency is to dislike and disparage the things I am bad at. That way… Read more
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Zuby
I like Zuby. If Twitter wasn’t the hellhole it is, I might follow someone with a keen insight and libertarian tendencies. Of course you’d have to wade through a endless… Read more
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Posterity
*Jo sitting on the bed trying to cut his toenails* Did you flood the bathroom now? Eh… The bath mat is soaked Ouch!!! What’s wrong? I just stabbed myself with… Read more
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Felix Navi Dad
The Christmas season, for me at least this year, has been remarkably… what’s the word I’m looking for, bearable. Normally, by this stage, I’ve retreated to mount Crumpet (that overlooks… Read more
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Nouveau faith
I’m starting my own religion. It will be called Fundamental Joeyism. Which… while already a quasi-ideological and deeply idiosyncratic assemblage of the miscellaneous… can probably also be a religion. We… Read more
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Six hundred thirty something…
The intersection of Hayek and self-indulgence. But mostly self-indulgence.
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How to be petty
The Edge, of what, he wondered. But couldn’t be bothered to look it up.
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The God terrarium
Everything seemed to be going reasonably well… until someone (or something) bumped us off the table.
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Saving us
Capitalism steps up to bat. OR If we don’t save the world… who will buy our stuff?
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The man who planted trees
Feel good animation based on the amazing short-story L’homme qui plantait des arbres
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Going Tribal
Bind us together in love. Cooperation. And the shared experience of hell.