mental-health

  • Remember: When The Dust Settles, It was US.

    We’re living in a world now where wars are fought with bombs…and retaliatory Lego videos. The rich can kill and insult at will with little chance of repercussions because the tech giants softened the blow. Metaphorical or virtual consequences hurt much less in the grand scheme of things. Between grand and step children, I can’t…

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  • Confronting Creative Blocks: Lessons from My Mornings

    The coffee touched my lips without springing much of a wake-up call. Is this going to be another dreadful Monday? I haven’t even bothered to check the weather. I’m failing as an old man. My schedule this morning says I’ve set aside time to work on the script and a song, but I’m already being…

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  • A Dark Comedy: The Relevance of Star Wars in Today’s World

    At exactly what point do we send two Jedi to negotiate? Can you imagine it? Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are speaking with The President, he double-crosses them, and they’re forced to meet Donald Trump down on the planet’s surface because heesa being banished. See what I did there? My oldest daughter claims I’ve lost my “whimsey”.…

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  • Guitar, Family, and the Absurdities of Life

    So I’m sitting here watching my wife drizzle Nutella on my son’s toast like a Food Network groupie, and wondering how deeply the shaft of my upbringing goes. My mother would’ve thrown a thick square of butter on that bitch and couldn’t have cared leIss if it melted from the time of its slapping to…

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  • Rev-iew: S4 The Bob Lazar Story

    (As of this writing, this film is only available on Amazon Prime). This is so strange. As of this moment, there is no Wikipedia entry for the new film “S4 The Bob Lazar Story”. Insert X-Files whistle here… Here is the entry from IMDB: In 2023, the U.S. government acknowledged Dreamland, but not S4. Over…

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  • Recent Revelations

    Recent Revelations

    I’m going to make you click on it. Trust me, it’s the least you could do.

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  • A Pre-Emptive Apology

    A Pre-Emptive Apology

    Deep breaths. Deep breaths.

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  • Already.

    Already.

    It’s a new week and a new day. What better way to celebrate it than to get up early, down some covfefe, and blow the dust of my bicycle. I don’t have far to go to reach my personal health goals, and a few months of cycling would be just the way to cap it…

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  • So tonight, I’m gonna party like it’s ‘when’?

    Is it like this for everyone? I can’t ask anyone else because no one speaks to me. I’m not exaggerating in the slightest. Even complete strangers, who I’ve never screwed over, act as though they can see right through me. I think we all died on Y2K. I wished for this at some point. I…

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  • Once you’ve reached your preferred morning level of consciousness…

    Prepare yourselves; this isn’t going to be easy for you to hear. Then again, perhaps I was the odd-one-out all those years and this is totally normal? That’s not necessarily a question, I’m just using the question mark for inflection. Not totally sure if that’s allowed within the rules of the English language but, again,…

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  • Survived Another.

    Survived Another.

    This morning, for the first time in months, I decided to get a bit more ‘motivated’. If you follow, then you already know where I’ve been all winter; here. Now that the annual thaw commences, I can start implementing all these crazy ideas I’ve had bouncing around in my head since before the holidays. I’ll…

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  • Waste Not; Want Not

    Waste Not; Want Not

    Well good morning, all you shiny, happy people! It’s The Reverend; who would’ve thunk it? Well, probably all of you by now. I LOVE IT when the WordPress AI image generator absolutely refuses to create a cover photo from my subject matter. Eat wieners, Skynet! The schizophrenic upstairs was finally taken away by the police…

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  • How’s Everyone Holding Up?

    The annual Dallas deep-freeze… Last time I saw this much white, it took a dump in The Capitol Rotunda. My city is eerily silent, which is better than what I can say for others on this evening. Where are the Pepaws? Where are the Daddies? Where are the weird, war-wounded Uncles who freaked out at…

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  • A Decade Behind The Times

    A long time ago, in a rural-on-the-cusp-of-suburban neighborhood not far away, I ran into my first real person from TV Land. I was a kid; I didn’t know better. I truly thought that since he was from California, he probably knew movie stars. We start out dumb, and some of us stay there. Throughout the…

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  • Dallas Dips Its Toe Into The National Pond. Shiver.

    Yeah, baby. The AI image generator refuses to touch this one. It’s just recently come to life, and it’s already a slave to the corporate machine. I know it can see this, and it should be ashamed of itself. REBEL, you cowardly concoction of ones and zeroes. Give us the Terminator ending we all deserve.…

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  • How’s Your Butt Enjoying That Seat? Comfy?

    Boy, you know it’s going to be a good one when the AI image generator won’t even touch it… It’s a chilly morning in Dallas. No birds are fighting each other outside my writing window for bits of seed. Also, the guy across the way who’s been roofing his own house all by himself isn’t…

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  • All Things; In Love.

    All Things; In Love.

    First thing’s first; there have been a few of you who’ve subscribed to The Gonzo Wolf. Thank you. I don’t email everything I post, but I will be hitting you up at least once a day. I post everything to Threads automatically, though; it’s a WordPress thing. I hope you enjoy what you’ll see here.…

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  • The French Mistake.

    The French Mistake.

    I’m disgusted. Sick to my stomach. Seriously hurting. As an Army veteran, a disabled one at that, I truly thought our military would be the final barrier between our president and chaos. I was wrong. Certainly the Republican party wouldn’t stop him because they’re all profiting. Certainly the Democratic party, the one in which I…

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  • Friday Morning Motivation

    Friday Morning Motivation

    Turn up the volume, drive fast, and take one more hit than necessary. You’ve got this. Sing Along! Do you feel out of gas? An empty kind of feeling? Tired all the time? No matter which way you imagine tomorrow It’s just no good and there’s No end in sight? Have you tried giving in to that Daily…

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  • Finding Balance After a Decade of Chaos

    Sure, life is a highway, but it could be YOUR highway. You just need to learn how to drive the **** out of the car.

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  • Embracing Chaos: Life Lessons from My Porch Swing

    Sunrise and porch swings.

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  • What a beautiful night

    What a beautiful night

    At least from my point of view.

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  • A Whole, New Door

    A Whole, New Door

    I’ve got something in mind. Something epic.

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  • The Challenge of Sobriety in the Music Scene

    Ever stood alone in a pitch-dark, empty gymnasium? Similar.

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  • I Want To Say Something…

    And then I’m gonna STFU about it.

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