Explaining video games
This helps me to understand why my character in Skyrim keeps picking up crap to sell, even though he has more money than he’ll ever be able to spend. Also,…
existentialism
Tell Me About Your Mother
You awake each morning screaming, your mouth dry and your eyes red from the tears that bath your Pillow of Ennui. You had the dream again. Of falling. Of dogs…
Paging Dr. Godhead
“…whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.” –Bertrand Russell “The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world…
Time robots!
Time Robot would be a great name for a band. It would also be a horribly misleading title for a French film based on this premise. (Though it would be…
La dolce vita
It wasn’t always so easy. There used to be an anger in him. An emptiness that nothing could fill … nothing material anyway. He fell through time and space, and…
The Not-So-Awful Truth About Being Single
“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” Jean-Paul Sartre In yesterday’s Globe & Mail, Margaret Wente claims that people can get to a much greater depth of…
Saturday At The Movies
We met Henri a few weeks ago. Here’s the first video in which he explores his angst:
Saturday At The Movies
Cat ennui – clever and funny! Thanks to Emma for passing it on.
The Stranger (The Outsider)
I read this originally in French class, sometime during my high school career. (Where I was a music nerd, and a hard-core nerd, long before that was remotely cool.) Most…
The Unbearable Pain of Being
For those who have never been quite certain of the true meaning of existential angst, may I recommend the following? And for your further discernment, Henri 2 Paw de Deux:…
Sad Spaceman reads too much Camus
Alltop enjoys a good void.
Why Dr. McCoy was not a whiny bitch
McCoy, Kirk and Spock are all about to die as their bodies are de-atomized over a period of several agonizing seconds. Everyone in the original Star Trek was quite condescending…
Torpor, Ennui, the End of the Universe
That kid just bummed me out. Alltop would love a new bike.