Did You Used to Be R.D. Laing? (full documentary)
For anyone else who needs a smile, have a great big belly laugh. Famed existential psychotherapist and cultural hero R.D. Laing was a man of many talents. It is hard...
Now Reading… “The Psychopath Test” by Jon Ronson
Since tapering off both Effexor XR (took almost a decade) and Seroquel XR (took a couple of weeks), I’ve been able to do something I haven’t been able to for...
Mad Pride in Toronto, July 10-15, 2012…
As you may well know, Toronto, Canada’s got Mad Pride, especially this weekend, when “Mad Pride Toronto” rallies in various venues throughout the city. I would love to do a...
Trying to get the last word in from 2000 miles away?
About to be released from the psych ward, pairing up with a great new friend I met here to get our lives in order (one more time now! ) and...
Music as Praxis: Cohen’s “Master Song” Overrides Noise from “Mad Praxis”, Lost Potential
As I mentioned yesterday in passing, I had not checked out the blog that replaced this one on wordpress’s free site when I bought my own domain and went my...
The Sunlight on the Garden
Last summer, I searched and searched and searched and searched…literally, typing various “boolean operators” into Google to find a poem that I thought would save my life. It was all...
Dear Sir. Thoughts of Sylvia + “A Birthday Present”
I’ll need a little more time to collect my thoughts re: Sylvia Plath’s “Poem for a Birthday”. Especially now that I’ve found Dylan Thomas’ birthday/October themed poem and Sylvia’s “A...
“Poem for a Birthday” …more Sylvia Plath to Discuss
It would be awesome to hear your thoughts now…mine will come on – you guessed it – “our” birthday, October 27th
Sylvia Plath – Born October 27: Week of Intensity, Day of ??
NEW PRACTICE OF MADNESS FEATURE (RED, of course) ALERT…decision made to step it up a notch: Registered members now have the special extra privilege of participating in contests. There will...
Where do you shop online? Let’s create our own “stimulus package”…(ask not what your country can do for you!…)
Hey all - A quick note about “affiliate” programs. As you can see from the right sidebar, I’m an affiliate for Amazon (does not have to be “.ca”, i.e. Canadian...
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