~Octopussy~ ⋅ 41 ⋅
Just an American living Bangkok and writing about all the inappropriate things that I somehow get roped into joining... I've been writing in blogs since 1999, so I'm fairly inconsistent. Sometimes I write a lot, sometimes I have nothing to say for months at a time, but I'm never gone, so just be patient and something new will come around.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time
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“Type entry here…“ Wow, thanks for giving me something to aspire to. What am I supposed to say? I’ll have no rest. I have just 48 hours to get my application to France finished and I can’t seem t...
1: What did you do in 2015 that you’d never done before? I graduated from university and found myself in the post-college wasteland. 2: Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you mak...
I kid you not, the 26th of December, my depression lifted, my illness left and I immediately turned into that meme of Julie Andrews from The Sound of Music spinning on the mountains. It was nice,...
I know I haven’t been writing that often, but it’s honestly because I’m depressed and I hate depressed writing. There’s a defeatist bleakness that permeates any writing that I do and it isn’t wha...
Do you ever just enter this phase where you think everything is just incredibly stupid? I’ve been told that I have a reputation for being elitist and snobby, which I don’t necessarily think is ac...
The Woods in Things That I'm Grateful For
When I was finally at a place with my stand-up where I could actually tour and sustain a whole show by myself, I started writing concept narratives. That was how I did my shows. Each of my shows ...
So much has happened and I’ve wanted to write but my computer had to get shipped off to Texas for repairs. I’ve been sick, done scene work, been asked to audition for a Tennessee Williams product...
I don’t know what I’m writing about. I have been sick for days. I kept it together enough to work over the weekend, but I’ve totally collapsed when it was time to return to school. Whatever, my c...
Being friends with straight guys means that from time to time, things get uncomfortable. As with any friends you make, there are going to be times when they say something offensive and you have t...
I might type this really poorly because I’m typing it in my class, and I sit next to this hot Persian guy with a huge package in his bicycle shorts, and he constantly plays with it, so I’m always...
What part of pop culture do you wish would just go away? Well, “go away” is a bit strong, but I wish reality television were shelved as a concept for a little while. Back when it was first starti...
Legacy in The Stuff That's Not Interesting But Is The Most Interesting Stuff I'll Write
I suppose I didn’t explain myself very well in my last entry. I was overcome by my rant on privacy that I never actually got to balance out exactly what I was trying to say had happened. But I ha...
I know it’s not really clear from how I write, usually I zoom in on a specific topic and mention only the specifics (or talk around the specifics), but I’ve made a lot of changes lately. However,...
Things weren’t easy for a while. In fact, they were as hard as they’d ever been in my life. However, I’ve gotten through to the other side. I stuck with my job and have now landed a better one, t...
This week I kind of went outside myself and tried to observe my daily life from another’s point-of-view, mainly because someone remarked at how busy I seem to be. I realized that that is true. Th...
Gimme Something Good by Ryan Adams in The Song Remembers When
He’s gotten a lot of press recently for covering the entirety of Taylor Swift’s 1989 album, which is good because people finally know who he is and don’t immediately think of Bryan Adams when the...
American Baby in The Stuff That's Not Interesting But Is The Most Interesting Stuff I'll Write
You know, I came back here for many reasons. One of them was because of my family, but the other was because of the friends that I had here. However, as I have learned again and again, those rela...
Twisted by Stevie Nicks (In three variations) in The Song Remembers When
This song has a very strange and, if you’ll forgive me, twisted history. She wrote for the soundtrack of the movie Twister based on having seen an early cut of the movie. She sees the movie as an...
Mine in The Stuff That's Not Interesting But Is The Most Interesting Stuff I'll Write
Since I started back to the school I last attended three years ago, I’ve seen quite a few professors I knew, and occasionally a few students. Well, really only one student. She went to Paris with...
Thwomp Trap in The Stuff That's Not Interesting But Is The Most Interesting Stuff I'll Write
You know, I’m pretty patient. I give people a lot of latitude when it comes to situations, but if someone does something so ridiculous and egregious, I find it nearly impossible to forgive. Sunda...
In order to understand this entry, it will be helpful if you have read Pictures for Lovers of only because I’m going to be referencing people and events that I mentioned in that entry. Furthermor...
Englishman In New York by Sting in The Song Remembers When
I love Sting. I know he’s a very divisive character in music but I quite enjoy his eclecticism. From his punk-reggae infused days with The Police to his various musical journeys as a solo artist,...
Someone gave me a unique challenge, so I thought I’d do it. Let me explain the challenge and why I’m going to do it. Someone asked me if I would do an entry of all the songs that meant something ...
Tout prend son sens sans le miroir by Peter Peter in The Song Remembers When
I discovered this song while randomly searching for music on iTunes. This was a couple of years ago and I was just going through the French music section, and I came upon the title track from thi...
The other night, I initially thought about how nothing ever changes, but then I realized that far too much has changed, and although the outlines of situations might be the same, the way I inhabi...
