I found this piece among the tumbleweeds and brown grass on a run behind UCI. Front: “Jared the problem is once you got the boner you could have KISSED me or just even looked at me and I would have felt better but no you stare at the TV. So I stopped and you DID [...]

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For some reason, songs about madness are all the rage in my head lately, and this release from Who Killed Amanda Palmer? is no exception: And because I’m a nice guy (or because the Internet makes it so easy), here are the lyrics: My friend has problems with winter and autumn. They give him prescriptions [...]

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I’m determined to write a post today, but half of my lunch hour is gone and I’m still staring at the WordPress version of a blank page. My relationship to Mind on Fire has shifted repeatedly over the years.  It began as something intimate, brief postings read only by friends I knew IRL.  As I [...]

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You may remember dan le sac Vs scroobius pip from an earlier Music Monday–Thou Shalt Always Kill. They’re back with another riff on the biblical: Thanks, Joe, for the link!

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Vulnerability., originally uploaded by mind on fire. Professionals who treated patients with mental illness were once called alienists. Although the word itself has become obsolete, as a society mental and emotional disorders are still treated as something strange, alien, other. We are healthy and normal, but they are sick and crazy. A few months ago, [...]

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Tori Amos is a perennial fave. Bonus points for her friendship and collaboration with Neil Gaiman.

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