Went to a dog-friendly festival over the weekend. This guy was raising money for cancer.
the thing about addiction is that you just replace one habit with another. stop drinking? start smoking. stop smoking? start exercising. stop exercising? fucking play starcraft.
relapse. back to drinking. replace one habit with another.
it’s the dumbest shit in the world to be a recovering alcoholic at 26, but there’s something particularly sad and heartbreaking about someone that is 50 years old and still drinks themselves to sleep every night.
part of me is glad i stopped, but the other part of me is like lol bro, nothing has changed at all.
cool life, bro. you make good life decisions
taking the dogs to doggy day care for the weekend. you can’t see it, but Bogey (pictured) is sitting on top of Alley.
Maine.
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birthday bones
That 99% of compulsive thinkers’ thinking is about themselves; that 99% of this self-directed thinking consists of imagining and then getting ready for things that are going to happen to them; and then, weirdly, that if they stop to think about it, that 100% of the things they spend 99% of their time and energy imagining and trying to prepare for all the contingencies and consequences of are never good. Then that this connects interestingly with the early-sobriety urge to pray for the literal loss of one’s mind. In short that 99% of the head’s thinking activity consists of trying to scare the everliving shit out of itself.
—David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human […] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.
—David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
He didn’t reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.
—David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“Goodbye & Welcome” by Charles Santoso
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Alan Watts - Life and music, produced by Trey Parker and Matt Stone
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Says the photographer:
I had started to notice dogs waiting for their owners to come out of coffee shops and delis. I also noticed how individually each dog was responding to this brief separation. I felt compelled to document this contemporary urban phenomenon.
An oldie but a goodie.
“Titus, a yellow lab mix, retrieves a prosthetic leg Wednesday as commanded by trainer Rick Hairston at the Naval Consolidated Brig. Titus was trained by Carolina Canines for Service to perform tasks for wounded veterans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq.” - A Helping Paw
