AManicPandaBear

Say from the end of 1997 until after you returned from visiting family in Vietnam for a few months in the summer of 1999, was spent wallowing in a deep depression.Remember father had to give you your morning pills before he went to work. A cocktale and ever changing array of pills for depression, anxiety, panic, insomnia, and antipsychotics normally given in high doses for schizophrenics, for you it treated Tourette Syndrome.Kept forgetting to brush your teeth, but always looked in the mirror. Still here. The loudest voice in your head was suicidal ideation. Persistant, every moment of your waking hours. Whatv little sleep there was, no dr...

I first posted this on 17 April 2014. Have Pen. Will Travel. A friend of mine is currently applying for her passport. I suggested she take a grand tour of the world and follow the route that Phileas Fogg took is Jules Vernes novel, "Around the World in Eighty Days," a route investigative journalist Nellie Bly took in 1888, in 72 days, after only two days of planning I would add. Fogg's adventures took starting at the Reform Club, to him to the following locations; London, Paris, Turin, Brindisi, Suez, Aden, Bombay, Kholby, Allahabad, Calcutta, Strait of Malacca, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Chicago, New York City, Li...

Edgar Allan Poe and the horrors that have become my own imaginations.21Apr14You may say I enjoy reading and especially performing from the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. At least I used to devour his stories until one summer month in 2007 when my own imaginations consumed my ability to sit and read much of anything to this day. Poe best explains my continuing fascination with the adventures of Jules Verne, American Romanticism, Lovecraftian horror, Absurdism, and the early horror films of Vincent Price, as well as the tone some of my own nightmares and fairytales take themselves.