Damek.

There ain’t no such thang as “smokers’ rights.” You have no right to smoke. You have the right to the pursuit of happiness, but so do I, and if it made me happy to run around poking people in the arm, you’d quickly put a stop to that.
The so-called “right to smoke” is [...]

One of the tricks you should eventually learn in life is to take strength from your depression. When you start feeling that things are against you, that the system is broken, that’s your mind telling you to do something about it. And you can. If you feel that your actions have no [...]

A while ago I wrote that I might start putting up sample tracks of music I like. But doing such things takes a bit of effort (not much, but enough), and so in that post I just lazily linked to a free non-album track by Deceptikon that you can get from Merck Records (which [...]

On a day off, running an errand, I walked back through Central Park and passed the duck pond at the southeast corner of the park. I like ducks, and the bridge was pretty… so, naturally, the camera came out. [Click the image to go to the photos on flickr.]