Mental Pop!

How goes it? So I've been engaged in my own personal 100 word writing challenge, with the goal of 365 separate and unique entries, and recently discovered that there has been an online group devoted to daily 100 word writing challenges since 2001!&n…

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." -Ray Bradbury   So, back in 2019 (Aug. 19th to be precise) I got the wacky idea to challenge myself with 100 unique, 100 word short stories. I thought it would be a good opportu…

For the 10 people who might be interested, I wanted to make an organized list of all the books we discussed, or at least mentioned, in the latest episode of MENTAL POP! I’d only meant to hit on 22 books for 2022, but it somehow grew to 52 book…

“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.”. - Vincent Van Gogh   “How can you put on a meaningful drama when every 15 minutes proceedings are interrup…

<Insert obligatory blog (oblogatory?) post here>   Behold! Conspiracat is now chasing the red dot to the truth! Yes, that’s right, our old group has now been “rebranded” and I look forward to talking about some other t…

Thankfully, in some regards, times have changed.   In my home city of Indianapolis, Indiana, only one hundred years ago, an estimated 250,000 white males, or 30% of the native male population of the state, were members of or associated with t…

“That’s it isn’t it? If we don’t know what’s real, we can’t resist. They took your story, something that meant so much to people like me, and turned it into something trivial. That’s what The Matrix does. It…

Like you, I’m inundated (infected) with Covid dozens of times daily in every possible “news” feed I might view. And probably, like you, I’m also asking some serious questions in regards to the official narrative.   Wit…

The Sanskrit word for war, gavisti, literally means: a desire for more cows.   Seeing as how we are quickly approaching the end of another year (and my, 2021 did fly by), as well as the final months of the Chinese Year of the Ox, and as we re…

When I was a kid (well, not a kid, more like a dumb ass 17 year old who thought anything was possible), I remember telling myself that in the future, the year 2020 when I would be old enough to run for President of the United States, that’s wh…