Aimless Thoughts: Fear and Loathing in Menasha
(AKA "Requiem for a 2003 Dodge Durango") Such a long-winded, self-indulgent and definitive statement on life in my early twenties that I might retire Aimless Thoughts for a while. I truly feel like I've said most of what I can say at this age. This piece alone covers most of what I intended to get off my chest when I started blogging - it’s got angry political screeds, small-town Rust Belt melodrama, grief, religion, gambling, a kinda pathetic long-distance relationship, lengthy delineations about books, music, video games, movies and YouTube videos… this is me. This is who I am. Who I was in 2022 through the lens of who I am in 2026. If I died tomorrow you could still know me through these thirty thousand words. I am an addict, or at least I've got an addictive personality. It runs in the family. Both sides. I never got into drugs and I haven't had a beer since I was four. The only traditional vices I've ever struggled with are sex and, briefly, gambling. Bu...