From today’s post at combatdavey.net:
you can just do things (and should) you can just do things (and should) you can just do things (and should) you can just do things (and should) you can just do things (and should)
From today’s post at combatdavey.net:
you can just do things (and should) you can just do things (and should) you can just do things (and should) you can just do things (and should) you can just do things (and should)
From today’s post at combatdavey.net:
I used to think I was the most anxious person on earth, but then I got a bit healthier and realized that what I thought was anxiety was a fear of punishment. A fear that if something went wrong, someone was going to hurt me.
From today’s post at combatdavey.net:
When people talk about someone having a “good” memory what they’re saying is that person can both remember and recall things. When I talk about having a “good” memory, I am explaining that I am cursed.
From today’s post at combatdavey.net:
When you are a person whose brain works a certain way (iykyk), you get bogged down in the details because everything you do is about understanding and then performing accuracy and correctness, which itself is about achieving (earning?) validity.
From today’s post at combatdavey.net:
Sometimes I just like to talk about things I remember so that I continue to remember them […] and sometimes, like today, I want you to know that if we are friends, regardless of what time does to that friendship, I will still remember you in 28 years.
From today’s post at combatdavey.net:
Those parts were actually pretty close to the surface but obscured by alcohol, illness, and sadness, and the bad choices that precede and follow alcohol, illness, and sadness.
From today’s post at combatdavey.net:
Nostalgia used to be considered a form of mental illness and I think we should bring that kind of thinking back if only so that the dumbest people you know will stop BoomerPosting about how peachy keen and super swell the 1950s and 1960s must have been.
Friday’s odds and ends post over at combatdavey.net included — among other things — another WTF story about AI, an amazing Point Break mural, a ridiculously expensive cocktail, and a tribute to a late, great Montrealer. Give it a read, willya? combatdavey.net/august-15-etc
In one of my group chats we’re discussing how our youngest (26) member and his cohort didn’t really get to be weird, messy, underemployed/broke 20-something dirtbags having wild mis/adventures in the big city while figuring out who they were.
Q: Was that a thing for you? Did you do this?
Just found out a friend died. He was a good guy. Kind. Welcoming. We were part of an extended universe that revolved around a Montreal alt-weekly and a Montreal dive bar. Naturally, I looked at old photos tonight. Lots of stories in those photos. Lots of love, drama, and life.
Rest well, bud.