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NYE 2025
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The two days leading up to - NYEE and NYE - both crazy. The restaurant fills on the 30th - people avoiding the NYE rush, instead creating another. Crazy, and I'm more or less on my own, there's back-up, the owner's wife to bartend and a busser, but - nonetheless, the restaurant is crazy.
NYE, same, but less crazy, less all-at-once and more regulated. And by 9:30 it's done and I'm off on my own little party.
The "Dosed" party, location undisclosed, but I've got the email and all suspicions confirmed. It's great. All the usual suspects, spicy outfits, people you know and people I have yet to meet, everyone is there, from the surprisingly bookish bookseller (on a tear), the lawyer, the librarian, the insurance, the .... customers from the restaurant that night, the night before, one - a 50 something man with what I thought was his daughter (oops) - and - well...spicy, spicy. Everyone in town, basically, a proper "Young Goodman Brown" and a good time is had by all.
I'm starting to know a lot of people, but not (or never) nearly enough. Dancing, dancing, until 2:30; the party's starting to fade and never be the last one there.
New Years Day, wake up, go back to bed, wake up, eat, go back to bed, wake up, go back to bed.
I've made my NYE resolution for 2026. More raves, more MDMA. Life is too short to miss out on these events.
Essays and Aphorisms - Arthur Shopenhauer
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This was a somewhat interesting read, mostly his thoughts on a variety of topics, from God and Religion, the Arts, Women and a whole lot else. Chapters like: "The Indestructibility of Being", "The Will to Live", "On The Vanity of Existence" etc. Some of it's insightful, but conclusions I'd arrived at (or would have, had I thought about the topics with the same investment he had), some of it - well, you can disagree but still take his point of view.
Despite some of his remarkably progressive views I was taken with his views on women, and how they must be humoured and tolerated, a genuinely patronizing tone that simply wouldn't cut it today. Contrast this with John Stuart Mill's, who had a very successful relationship with his muse and was thoroughly in favour of Women being given the right to vote, etc.
Overall a surprisingly easy read for a German Philosopher.
Now to clean up a few other half-finished books so I can enter the New Year with a new reading list.
The Excesses of Xmas
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And trying to lower my vibration, the excesses of the Birthday and Xmas have made it unsustainable.
The neighbour is trying remediate the debt is attempting by sending me various links to crypto-trading scams and bogus online casinos; she count's the signing bonuses as credit against the loan...
I can say nothing and just shake my head.
Work, the in-between days Xmas to New Years, I have to work NYE but hope to off early, I have a ticket to somewhere I want to attend.
10 days away from the end of my billing cycle and I discover that I'm out of data. How did this happen? Apparently over Christmas I was bored and downloaded all of the best movies of 2025. A-ha. So - writing now confined to the library.
And last night, looting the fridge, a loaf of bread, some cucumbers, chilis, tomatoes, and I conceive the brilliant idea of putting the vegetables on a slice of bread - and - delicious; I think I'm on to something here. This morning to the Co-op, I'm going to try the same idea with the addition of meat and cheese...I'll let you know how it goes
Arthur Machen - The White People and Other Weird Stories
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Foreword by Guillermo Del Toro.
First of all, the foreword will ruin every story. It betrays the plot, the style, theme and characters, it's presumptuous to say the least.
Secondly, the summary in every footnote again - as my Latin & other languages aren't up to par, don't punish me by spoiling the story.
To the text, as described, a collection of "weird" stories, persuasive horrors that warn you of undiscovered spiritual dangers (and realms) beyond our ken, the vague apprehension or intuition of a world just adjacent to ours, invisible but a touching of the unseen order of things, the antediluvian gods, an inspiration to Lovecraft (Who never quite achieved the same depth of prose), a reaction to the new spirit of scientific enquiry that promises to ban all religion and superstition to the shadows.
Very atmospheric, and I quite enjoyed. The perfect read for a dark, wet and rainy Christmas.
On that note, have you seen the trailer to the New Steven Spielberg film? "Disclosure Day"? It has much the same feel..
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