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The Doomsday Optimist: I Love You
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Monday, August 12, 2013. Her mother regularly told her daughter she loved her. The words were not warm and brimming with sentiment, but rather cold and austere, as much of her mother’s communication tended to be. In the phrase, too, lay a hint of anger and defensiveness, as in I’m not like those crappy parents who never tell their children they are loved,. Or try to accuse me now that your childhood is bad when I have said, on record, that I love you, every day for the last ten years. So the spelling and...
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The Doomsday Optimist: 5/19/13 - 5/26/13
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Death, Cancer, and Sexy Organs. If you need proof of this, look only to your testicles (or, for women and eunuchs and testicular cancer survivors, look to your metaphoric testicles). Relatively complex organs geared towards reproduction and surging with exciting bodily hormones, testicles are a prime location for the generation of errant tissue and, in fact, testicular cancer is all but guaranteed for men who live to the age of 80. Every period a woman has elevates her risk of br...
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The Doomsday Optimist: 8/4/13 - 8/11/13
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Saturday, August 10, 2013. To Hurt and Be Hurt. We all, at some point, confront our own ability to both be harmed and inflict harm among others. Much of our lives can be shaped by our ability or inability to accept these fundamental capabilities. The man would later appear incredulous and incensed at my (mis)interpretation of events: “I told her I wasn’t brandishing the knife! 8220;No.” She said. “Just - no. I can’t believe that happened.”. Please stop yelling at me. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The perso...
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The Doomsday Optimist: 6/2/13 - 6/9/13
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Sunday, June 2, 2013. Behavioural Neuroscience and Hannibal: the TV Show. Subtitle: Why Is No One Giving Will Graham A Hug? But this knowledge was never explicit and I avoided, as long as I could, any of its terrifying implications. But this post wasn’t supposed to be about me. Hmm. Let’s get back to Hannibal and Will. And this year, those watching NBC’s Hannibal have discovered a new version of Empire Magazine’s Eighth Greatest Character of the last twenty years. I work with adults with psychiatric disa...
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The Doomsday Optimist: 5/1/11 - 5/8/11
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011. I Am Not a Dancing Ninja. Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art which intricately combines break dancing with kicking your opponent’s ass. Naturally, I was both intrigued and terrified, and desperately wanted to try. I should probably specify here that I have absolutely no martial art or dance ability, whatsoever. As in, I seriously lack strength, speed, mental discipline, or the ability to move rhythmically to a beat. Lesson the First: I am very, very bad at Capoeira. This may have...
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The Doomsday Optimist: 6/12/11 - 6/19/11
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Saturday, June 18, 2011. The dust has settled and life has returned to semi-normalcy in Vancouver following Wednesday night’s Stanley Cup defeat and subsequent drunken rampage of doom. I’ve got nothing to say pertaining to the above points that hasn’t been said already and with fewer run-on sentences, so let’s move on to happier thoughts. The upside of Vancouver’s Stanley Cup Riot! This cuteness would never have happened if it wasn't for car-torching hooligans! But we DO have fire. We have seen the face ...
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The Doomsday Optimist: God is Kim Jung Il
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Thursday, October 24, 2013. God is Kim Jung Il. God is Kim Jung Il. I’ve spent the better part of this week engrossed in Pulitzer Prize winning audiobook, “the Orphan Master’s Son,” which chronicles the life of character Jun Do and his various exploits - kidnapping Japanese citizens, gathering radio intelligence, being bitten by sharks - as a citizen in the unfathomable clutches of the North Korean government. What criteria held the most weight? I’m inclined to agree with him. North Korea is batshit crazy.
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The Doomsday Optimist: 8/11/13 - 8/18/13
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Monday, August 12, 2013. Her mother regularly told her daughter she loved her. The words were not warm and brimming with sentiment, but rather cold and austere, as much of her mother’s communication tended to be. In the phrase, too, lay a hint of anger and defensiveness, as in I’m not like those crappy parents who never tell their children they are loved,. Or try to accuse me now that your childhood is bad when I have said, on record, that I love you, every day for the last ten years. So the spelling and...
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The Doomsday Optimist: 4/3/11 - 4/10/11
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Thursday, April 7, 2011. When I was five years old, my mother sat me down for a very important conversation. 8220;The point of which is, I’m pregnant, and you’re going to have a little brother or sister.”. I paused, blinking repeatedly. When this information eventually settled into the depths of my developing brain, my thoughts turned to one inevitable declaration: I wanted a little sister, NOT a little brother. There are TWO girls now! This was not easy - my mother, concerned over my newfound fanaticism...
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The Doomsday Optimist: 11/27/11 - 12/4/11
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011. I Know a Convicted Sex Offender Who Might Be Dead.a true story. The other day, I was notified that one of my thousand-or-so clients had gone missing. Which is a sad, but not infrequent occurrence - many of the people who use the drop-in centre where I work are homeless, and almost all struggle with mental health and addiction issues. Within a week or two most turn up, alive, not too much worse for wear. Some do not. The more days passed, the more I worried about this guy.
