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The author, who has died at the age of seventy, saw little distinction between the living and the dead. From The New Yorker,

A legal battle over a potential new method of execution in the US, raises ethical questions. Corinna Barrett Lain, a law professor at the University of Richmond says the most humane method of execution is the firing squad.

Men are flashing refashioned smiles more than ever. And not just reality TV stars like Love Island’s Luca Bish. Fuck off.

if you want to have a good laugh you really should check out the bollocks that the marketing department came me up with for this chipshop... um i mean frites atelier...

The historian Lennard J Davis has linked the rise of obsessive disorders to the celebration of “precision, repetition, standardisation and mechanisation” in modern industrial societies. Citizens, he suggests, internalise the values their societies exalt.

"Get up and have a hot milky drink?" omg

pictures of smiling people? really? 🤮

Rob Schouten leest de levens en gedichten van Rogi Wieg, Joost Zwagerman en Wim Brands.

Paulien Cornelisse in De Volksrant 21-9-22

Interesting piece from the New Yorker about John Barker and his research into 'psychiatric orchids' in the UK in the 60s.

After the death of the Velvet Underground front man, two archivists and his widow, Laurie Anderson, discovered a mysterious sealed package from 1965. Inside was treasure: never-before-heard, folky versions of “Heroin” and other classics.

This is quite an annoying article, or make that 'advertisement for a book', from The Guardian 20-9-22. It is hard to imagine how you could fill up a whole book with this drivel. The fad of Stoicism will pass just like the fad of Zen and dare I say it, Catholicism, and like all of those it can pretty much be summed up with : Try to not want what you want — what a revelation! But the Stoics might add : try to not not want that which you have to have.

Nick van Tilburg over o.a. de avond in Friesland toen Reve te veel wijn dronk en Simon Vinkenoog op zijn bek timmerde en een gedicht over god voordraagde.

seven neurochemicals — what they do...

In 1947 the Dutch writer Gerard Reve published The Evenings, which would become the most famous postwar novel in the Netherlands.

The second season of the hit HBO show is a thing of beauty—a stylized, heightened, art-directed fantasia of a dark suburbia where really bad things look really good.

Actrice:Vicky Krieps zet in ‘Corsage’ een eigentijdse interpretatie neer van de Oostenrijkse keizerin Elisabeth (1837-1898), die dankzij de ‘Sissi’-films en Romy Schneider een sprookjesprinses werd.

from 'why be happy when you can be normal?'

from cynthia batemans's old blog

De onderzoekers van zorgkenniscentrum Nivel denken dat de stijging in ieder geval deels veroorzaakt is door de impact die de coronapandemie op jongeren heeft gehad.

Two therapy memoirs by Lucy Freeman, an overlooked mental health pioneer, remind us of the value of slow, convoluted therapy

‘When I realised there was going to be an announcement about her death, I changed into black and waited. She deserved that. Part of us goes with her’

Albert Woodfox endured 43 years in solitary confinement, believed to be more than any other inmate in the history of the United States. He was locked in a 6ft by 9ft cell for 23 hours a day. For the remaining hour he was permitted to walk around a fenced-in concrete yard while shackled. He was mocked, beaten and tear-gassed by guards who subjected him to invasive daily strip searches. To bring the smallest semblance of variety into his days, Woodfox alternated between eating breakfast standing up or sitting down.

The edge is not something to be shied away from, though it is formidable. Rather, regard the precipice with awe and rejoice in your proximity.

I’ve suffered from depression intermittently since I was a teenager. Some of these episodes have been highly debilitating – resulting in self-harm, withdrawal (where I would spend months on e…

Rachel Aviv on the self beyond psychiatry

Hypnopompic hallucinations are dreams you actually see, while awake. The dreaming brain’s slow-wave patterns persist even while other parts of the mind wake up, allowing dream images to “slip into the world around you”.

Het gaat goed in Nederland, en voor zover het niet goed gaat, wordt gelukkig overwogen wetten te maken, al kunnen die helaas niet worden gehandhaafd. 😄

The best question was : What is ego death and why do you all want it so bad? which makes Michael laugh quite a bit.

Zarathustra : The individual can experience himself only at the end of his wandering.