So now Lady Gaga has given a public apology for wrongly “assuming” that her friend Zombie Boy’s death was a suicide. It is now being assumed and asserted that he accidentally fell from his fourth-story

The following extracts are taken from Demi Lovato’s recent public statement she gave at Instagram. The full statement is easily accessible online in many places. I have quoted specific words of hers here

Here are some of the sufferings St. Paul endured: 2 Corinthians 11:23-28, “… in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often. From the Jews five times I received

The following excerpts are taken from my book Martyrs of Art: The Poison of Idealism: “Everything society stood for, Rimbaud opposed. Did it want him to dress appropriately? He would dress in rags, continually

Earlier tonight I revisited one of my favorite old episodes of The Twilight Zone, in which Donald Pleasence had starred as Professor Fowler, an English teacher who’d become downcast once the school foisted

Just 15 hrs. ago, Rick Genest — aka “Zombie Boy” — posted a poem on Instagram before he took his own life. He called it THE WELL. It is a prayer to the Voodoo spirit Damballa. It is a very fantastical

The following excerpt is taken from my book Keeping a Sound Mind in a Chaotic World, which is a philosophical treatise on the mind, written from a biblical basis: Luke 1:41 says, “And it came to pass,

The following is from a rant tonight on Fakebook: We are living in a time in which the women envy, and are jealous of, men. And I mean men that have knowledge, men that are talented. Guys, you want a

I have been active at the website Quora as of recently, and decided to share an answer of mine which is receiving the most attention. Here was the question: Is being blind worse than being dead? Here was

Jeffrey Dahmer was a genius with a body at odds with his mind. He was one who allowed himself to be controlled by his impulses. At his trial he was declared legally sane. Dahmer thought liberation came

“The athlete … never surrenders his rational self-control to impulses of diet or leisure, nor does he abandon his thought-out program.” –Peter Masters This is a fascinating quotation. Consider the analogy

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The following excerpts are taken from my recent book Adolf: Artist & Antinomian. After learning today that the book has generated a little bit of interest in Europe, I decided to create a post featuring

The following is an excerpt from my book Martyrs of Art: The Poison of Idealism: “As for his appearance, the actual Mozart was ‘under 5 feet tall, terribly thin, and with a mass of blonde hair.’ How freakishly

Baudelaire wrote in his My Heart Laid Bare, “In childhood and still today, the most beautiful thing I found in a theater is the chandelier — a beautiful luminous crystalline, complicated, circular and

The following excerpt is taken from my book Man of Masks: A Study of Robin Williams: ==What truth, what information, can emotional highs render? That is the type of atmosphere actors constantly desire.

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