Sensory Dispensary
“The record you didn’t know you needed is what I am listening to in the other room.”
“The record you didn’t know you needed is what I am listening to in the other room.”
Personal essays, political commentary, and reflections. The stuff that rattles around when the music stops.
With all that has been happening here with the site redesign (watch for Update #2) and personally (watch for Update #3), I have neglected to keep you all updated on the status of our GoFundMe which I previously discussed here, and that is bad of…
Gina and I are currenty watching Homicide: Life on the Street and the episode we saw the other night has thrown me for a bit of a loop. In an earlier episode this season, Detective Bayliss (Kyle Secor) shares with his partner Frank Pembleton (played…
One of the things I frequently notice on TV is that when a main character gets diagnosed with cancer, one of two things happen, they either sadly pass away, or they miraculously go through their treatments and then their life returns to normal, like they…
Gina shared this with me yesterday and it is a spot on set of examples of how the combination of anxiety and depression can cause a state of dissonance for the affected person, who in this case is me. Having anxiety and depression is like…
I very recently got a large envelope of legal documents in the mail from the newly appointed trustee for my mom’s trust. This person also has power of attorney for all of her affairs, in addition to being the named executor of her estate. He…
I had some interesting visitors to the site the other day from the town of Romeoville. Felt like an occasion worthy of a new playlist: Welcome Romeoville! They looked through a lot of shit, paged through the archives, and clicked on a peculiar assortment of…
Back in 2013, I was invited by a friend and colleague to be a part of a closed Facebook writing group. The format was simple: a short phrase each week that had to be incorporated into a new original piece inspired by it. There were…
I have added yet another …ologist to my roster of health care providers and likely another in the next couple of weeks if test results don’t normalize. I think I now qualify as an ologistogist as my knowledge of what all these …ologists do has…
The other day I wrote about how I was moving back to RSS and using News Explorer as my main source of information about politics, world news, local news, tech, music and miscellaneous other oddities. No more bookmarks or news aggregators, everything I need is…
A couple of days ago I was so glad to hear from Gina that Shadow and Jackie, the two bald eagles we watched from Big Bear Valley last year, had returned to their nest and that she had laid two eggs and that it was…
I guess the transition of TikTok to US control has been a bit rocky. Many users have reported issues posting videos related to ICE ativities, or not being allowed to mention “Epstein” in their messages. This is all anecdotal but it seems to be widespread…
I was planning on writing about something I read early this morning about how the people at FEMA were having trouble writing the weather warnings because Homeland Security advised them to not use the word “ICE” in the messaging. Apparently DHS was concerned that phrases…
I spent about a year trying to tell them it was a bad idea, that the decision was harmful to me and completely disrespected the boundaries I had set to protect myself. I told them that when the time came that the effects of this…
Back in the old days I used to subscribe to a lot of websites using RSS and would consume my news and such at my leisure, all from one common interface. I even self-hosted my own RSS Feed app, anyone else remember Shaun Inman’s Fever?…
I spent a good part of yesterday trying to put in to words my thoughts about the events of Jan 6, 2021 and my feelings about it five years later. I was trying to mix together my anger, my sadness, my disbelief, bewilderment, shock, and…
