[“I Lost My Virginity in a Burning Hummer,” 2009] Being not only a writer, but also a photographer, in your interviews you mentioned that photography influences your writing, helping you see better and be more social. Could you talk more about this influence? Does your writing influence your photographs as well?
My problem, growing up, was that I actually liked to read.
One evening when I was around ten (in the fifth grade or so?) my mother came into my room and found me reading a book. This disturbed her considerably. She could see it was a book I had not been assigned for school (it was well beyond my grade level) and she was disturbed by this.
"I know what your problem is" she declared sharply. "You're a loner."
For my mother, who enjoyed nothing better than chatting and joking with friends (except smoking which she was addicted to) this was the ultimate insult. What sort of fool and anti-social idiot would prefer the company of a book to other people?!
Of course mother was right. And now I'm an old man. Alone (which I greatly prefer) and always reading. It is infinity to be preferred over talking to stupid people.
The more one speaks, the less one has to say. So why should I listen?
I, like you, have liked to read from an early age. In my own case, my folks did nothing to discourage me, although, as you say, it can tend to reinforce the "loner" in us. Now in retirement I can indulge in it as often as I like without competition from things like the need to pursue gainful employment.
One thing I reflected on about reading is that it can be like having a conversation with the author, only better. Better because when you hear (read) something that deserves a little thought, you can stop "the conversation" for as long as you like to think about it. Also, unlike a real conversation, there is not the distraction of thinking about what you are going to say when it's your turn, instead of listening fully to what the speaker is saying.
The nail hit on the head - the US stands only with "Israel and war profiteers". And also the disgusting Lindsey Graham quote about dead Russians - imagine, indeed, replacing "Russians" with "Jews". The Nosferatu-like Jonathan Greenblatt would probably launch a lawsuit against every goyim in South Carolina, and would probably win.
Imagine your life had the US not intervened in Vietnam. Look at the places where Communism was not opposed, like Cambodia, Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela. Do those people wish they had pushed back? I'll bet they do.
Let me add that the airports here are closed. So far as I know, foreign leaders like everybody else land elsewhere and come by train. I never see photos of them debarking from airplanes. Of course, the arrangements have to be kept secret for security reasons.
With regard to the war profiteers, the military-industrial complex, of course they are making money. They have done so in every war ever fought, noble or ignoble. Of course they have an interest in seeing it go on. Of course the politicians like Lindsay Graham - worst was John McCain - often favor bellicose policies.
All that said, this was an unprovoked attack by a despot who cynically imagined that his espionage had so weakened Ukraine that it would be a walkover victory. He was wrong. He misjudged us, the enemy. We resolutely do not want ever again to be part of Russia. Ukraine is willing to pay the price in blood to make that point.
I assume you speak of the USA when you write "He misjudged us"
The Ukraine Army spent several weeks shelling the Donetsk region before Russia went into to put an end to it. This is all verifiable info and can be found using the duckduckgo search site.
So to call it an 'Unprovoked Attack" gives me the impression that you are indeed are an idiot who will write anything for monetary gain.
Merely an observation.
As they used say here in Ireland, before you got one behind the ear, it's nothing personal.
It is verifiable if you believe the Russian propaganda. Here is an account of Putin's justification. The Russians have a centuries old reputation for copious, massive, unbelievable lying. As Ukraine is reported countering in this article, this time also.
Bravo for your take on affirmative action! Courageous of you to say so.
Writing from Kyiv, let me correct you. Putin would certainly bomb Kyiv if he could. He throws every kind of missile at us, many launched from airplanes. At a safe distance. His failure to send bombers overhead is not a goodwill gesture of any sort. They would surely get shot down.
"Scratch a Russian and you'll find a Tartar" has some validity. The Russian people's passive acceptance of this war is more Oriental than European. The willingness of the mobiks to die in Bakhmut may be admirable to Putin. Western Europeans would not do it.
Everything you write about the evil Viktoria Nuland makes me smile. She did nothing to avoid this war. But it is Putin's war, Alexander Dugin's war, Shoigu's war, Prigozhin's war even more than his. Putin, like czars before him, was ill-served by the yes-men, the toadys who would not tell him the truth. It led him to initiate a disastrous war in the false belief he could achieve a quick victory.
He let the history of Georgia blind him to Russia's experience in Japan, Finland and Chechnya.
Ok, but a honest question here. Zelensky = Jewish. Blinken = Jewish. Nuland = Jewish. Penny Pritzker (new representative for "Ukraine's Economic Recovery") = Jewish. That transgender spoke-thing = Jewish. Bernhard-Henry Levi = Jewish. Holy crap, almost ALL people supporting this war on Ukraine's side are Jews! Why are JEWS so interested in this war? And do Ukrainians understand that they're being played, or are they really that dense? Without the Jewish angle, this war doesn't even make sense.
Recommend you read Edward Slavsquat here on Substack. Putin's government includes a number of the chosen as well. See Alexander Ginzberg, head of the Gamalaya Institute, forcing clot shots on the Russian people. Herman Gref of Sberbank, forcing a CBDC. As seems always to be the case, there are Jews on both sides of this war.
Every war has many causes, but the main one in this case seems to be Russia's perpetual desire for empire. See my 2014 review of Alexander Dugin - reproduced here because Amazon (controlled, I suppose, by You Know Who) took it down
Not a fan of Dugin and ambiguous on Putin and Russia and China (in particular because of Covid stuff), but, that said, the Ukraine appears to me even worse. There is not a single trustworthy person on their side. They appear to be led and supported by the worst, most corrupt riffraff on the planet, sorry to say. I don't understand this war, it is stupid to me. The Ukrainian people are being used for Jews (Jewish-Americans) for other purposes, and they will own the country (already do). It's a weird nationalism, too. Many of the people in the Donbass and most in Crimea prefer to be part of Russia, so why should the Ukraine lord over those people? Sure, Jewish-Americans would love to have American bases in the Crimea, I get that.
Anyway, at this point, who even cares? At this rate there will be more young Ukrainians in Germany than in the Ukraine, and they won't go back. Also, I must say, I see little difference between Russians and Ukrainians. Most Ukrainians I met spoke only Russian and have no ethnic, religious or cultural difference from Russians. Perhaps the conspiracy theory that this is about making Slavs kill themselves to depopulate the region to recreate Khazaria/Pale of Settlement makes sense. Otherwise, a very stupid, pointless, ridiculous war.
My problem, growing up, was that I actually liked to read.
One evening when I was around ten (in the fifth grade or so?) my mother came into my room and found me reading a book. This disturbed her considerably. She could see it was a book I had not been assigned for school (it was well beyond my grade level) and she was disturbed by this.
"I know what your problem is" she declared sharply. "You're a loner."
For my mother, who enjoyed nothing better than chatting and joking with friends (except smoking which she was addicted to) this was the ultimate insult. What sort of fool and anti-social idiot would prefer the company of a book to other people?!
Of course mother was right. And now I'm an old man. Alone (which I greatly prefer) and always reading. It is infinity to be preferred over talking to stupid people.
The more one speaks, the less one has to say. So why should I listen?
I, like you, have liked to read from an early age. In my own case, my folks did nothing to discourage me, although, as you say, it can tend to reinforce the "loner" in us. Now in retirement I can indulge in it as often as I like without competition from things like the need to pursue gainful employment.
One thing I reflected on about reading is that it can be like having a conversation with the author, only better. Better because when you hear (read) something that deserves a little thought, you can stop "the conversation" for as long as you like to think about it. Also, unlike a real conversation, there is not the distraction of thinking about what you are going to say when it's your turn, instead of listening fully to what the speaker is saying.
"Just think, for a moment, of all the dreams being wrecked in Ukraine via a war ochestrated by the US, with Victoria Nuland its mastermind."
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A great ongoing tragedy, there in Jewkraine. Victoria Nuland, a cunt of the highest order. I applaud you for naming the Jew 🥂
Thank you for speaking out about your views on ZioGloboHomo.
Graham is absolutely delusional.
He is not even comic relief.
The nail hit on the head - the US stands only with "Israel and war profiteers". And also the disgusting Lindsey Graham quote about dead Russians - imagine, indeed, replacing "Russians" with "Jews". The Nosferatu-like Jonathan Greenblatt would probably launch a lawsuit against every goyim in South Carolina, and would probably win.
You deserve more comments.
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" . . . of all the dreams being wrecked in Ukraine via a war orchestrated by the US, with Victoria Nuland its mastermind". Not entirely.
Ms. Victoria Nuland and her principle mentors examined at some depth . . .
Washington's Ukraina Grandioznaya Skhema . . . The Graveyard of This Empire.
https://les7eb.substack.com/p/washingtons-ukraina-grandioznaya
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Imagine your life had the US not intervened in Vietnam. Look at the places where Communism was not opposed, like Cambodia, Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela. Do those people wish they had pushed back? I'll bet they do.
Let me add that the airports here are closed. So far as I know, foreign leaders like everybody else land elsewhere and come by train. I never see photos of them debarking from airplanes. Of course, the arrangements have to be kept secret for security reasons.
With regard to the war profiteers, the military-industrial complex, of course they are making money. They have done so in every war ever fought, noble or ignoble. Of course they have an interest in seeing it go on. Of course the politicians like Lindsay Graham - worst was John McCain - often favor bellicose policies.
All that said, this was an unprovoked attack by a despot who cynically imagined that his espionage had so weakened Ukraine that it would be a walkover victory. He was wrong. He misjudged us, the enemy. We resolutely do not want ever again to be part of Russia. Ukraine is willing to pay the price in blood to make that point.
I assume you speak of the USA when you write "He misjudged us"
The Ukraine Army spent several weeks shelling the Donetsk region before Russia went into to put an end to it. This is all verifiable info and can be found using the duckduckgo search site.
So to call it an 'Unprovoked Attack" gives me the impression that you are indeed are an idiot who will write anything for monetary gain.
Merely an observation.
As they used say here in Ireland, before you got one behind the ear, it's nothing personal.
It is verifiable if you believe the Russian propaganda. Here is an account of Putin's justification. The Russians have a centuries old reputation for copious, massive, unbelievable lying. As Ukraine is reported countering in this article, this time also.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-putin-authorises-military-operations-donbass-domestic-media-2022-02-24/
You actually write this. . ..
"The Russians have a centuries old reputation for copious, massive, unbelievable lying"
And then you give me a link to reuters.
Jabbed much friend.
Bravo for your take on affirmative action! Courageous of you to say so.
Writing from Kyiv, let me correct you. Putin would certainly bomb Kyiv if he could. He throws every kind of missile at us, many launched from airplanes. At a safe distance. His failure to send bombers overhead is not a goodwill gesture of any sort. They would surely get shot down.
"Scratch a Russian and you'll find a Tartar" has some validity. The Russian people's passive acceptance of this war is more Oriental than European. The willingness of the mobiks to die in Bakhmut may be admirable to Putin. Western Europeans would not do it.
Everything you write about the evil Viktoria Nuland makes me smile. She did nothing to avoid this war. But it is Putin's war, Alexander Dugin's war, Shoigu's war, Prigozhin's war even more than his. Putin, like czars before him, was ill-served by the yes-men, the toadys who would not tell him the truth. It led him to initiate a disastrous war in the false belief he could achieve a quick victory.
He let the history of Georgia blind him to Russia's experience in Japan, Finland and Chechnya.
"It is infinity to be preferred over talking to stupid people."
Repeat that sentence while looking in the mirror.
Ok, but a honest question here. Zelensky = Jewish. Blinken = Jewish. Nuland = Jewish. Penny Pritzker (new representative for "Ukraine's Economic Recovery") = Jewish. That transgender spoke-thing = Jewish. Bernhard-Henry Levi = Jewish. Holy crap, almost ALL people supporting this war on Ukraine's side are Jews! Why are JEWS so interested in this war? And do Ukrainians understand that they're being played, or are they really that dense? Without the Jewish angle, this war doesn't even make sense.
Amazingly, though Amazon no longer sells Dugin's book, my review lives!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2TVQAKTFLZ651?ref=pf_ov_at_pdctrvw_srp
Recommend you read Edward Slavsquat here on Substack. Putin's government includes a number of the chosen as well. See Alexander Ginzberg, head of the Gamalaya Institute, forcing clot shots on the Russian people. Herman Gref of Sberbank, forcing a CBDC. As seems always to be the case, there are Jews on both sides of this war.
Every war has many causes, but the main one in this case seems to be Russia's perpetual desire for empire. See my 2014 review of Alexander Dugin - reproduced here because Amazon (controlled, I suppose, by You Know Who) took it down
https://grahamseibert.substack.com/p/my-2014-review-of-book-by-putins
Not a fan of Dugin and ambiguous on Putin and Russia and China (in particular because of Covid stuff), but, that said, the Ukraine appears to me even worse. There is not a single trustworthy person on their side. They appear to be led and supported by the worst, most corrupt riffraff on the planet, sorry to say. I don't understand this war, it is stupid to me. The Ukrainian people are being used for Jews (Jewish-Americans) for other purposes, and they will own the country (already do). It's a weird nationalism, too. Many of the people in the Donbass and most in Crimea prefer to be part of Russia, so why should the Ukraine lord over those people? Sure, Jewish-Americans would love to have American bases in the Crimea, I get that.
Anyway, at this point, who even cares? At this rate there will be more young Ukrainians in Germany than in the Ukraine, and they won't go back. Also, I must say, I see little difference between Russians and Ukrainians. Most Ukrainians I met spoke only Russian and have no ethnic, religious or cultural difference from Russians. Perhaps the conspiracy theory that this is about making Slavs kill themselves to depopulate the region to recreate Khazaria/Pale of Settlement makes sense. Otherwise, a very stupid, pointless, ridiculous war.