This is just some stuff that’s on my mind.
Religion Is A Cancer Of The Understanding
A 20 year old woman has just drowned to death in Dubai because her father, a Muslim, decided her drowning was a better fate than her having been touched, and …
Celebrating The Anniversary Of Robcotton.com & Announcing The Release Of My New Book
I started this site in August of 2014 as a way to increase the amount of writing I was doing. Motivation does not always come easy for me, and I …
Content And Its Discontents: When Did Everything Get So Fucking Lame?
There is a sterile sheen of lameness overlaying the various media we ingest to entertain ourselves on a daily basis. It hasn’t always been (completely) like that. Everything seems so …
Can’t Think Of A Blog Post Blues
Sometime in the past 35 and a half years I decided to start writing shit down.
Meditations Occurring After An Unknown Amount Of Time Spent Adrift At Sea In A Small Wooden Vessel
The storm had subsided once more. There have been many storms. The wanderer was weary, but he was not completely without hope, for as long as there is hope, he …
Meditations Following The Discovery Of A Rotting Corpse
– Over by the Holiday Inn at the western edge of town, about halfway down toward the river, there’s a corpse lying on the ground. I’m not sure whose corpse …
Content And Its Discontents (A Philosophical Investigation)
There is an important difference between information and content. Content is contained within something larger than itself. Information can be content, but it does not necessarily have to be contained …
Werner Herzog Offers 24 Pieces of Filmmaking & Life Advice
There are few filmmakers alive today who have the mystique of Werner Herzog. His feature films and his documentaries are brilliant and messy, depicting both the ecstasies and the agonies …
A Deep Ocean Of Darkness And Chaos – Werner Herzog Quotes
I’m fascinated by the notion of civilisation as a thin layer of ice resting upon a deep ocean of darkness and chaos. – Werner Herzog