Table of Contents
Anything for Her Laugh + Warnings & Notes
Day 1: One Love, One Hate + Carl Sagan
Parentheticals & Grammar & Memory
Day 1 Continued: Up Shit Creek
Day 1 Concluded: The Tyranny of Money
Harold and Ed
SportsBall!
The three tips for you but not my enemies (you know who you are)
Day 2: Bullet in a Bible
Day 2 Concluded: Zero to Sixty
What’s Dick Got to Do with It?
Day 3: Funeral Suit
Day 3 Concluded: Ready … Aim …
Day 4: Losing My Religion
Day 4 Concluded: “Just one more.”
Worse than Hitler
Day 5: The End of Innocence
God, the Greatest Murderer of All Time
Day 6: Adventures in Wine, Wings, and Women
Day 6’s Wild and Crazy Ending
Sex Is Gross
“Don’t Threaten Us”
Day 7: The Bullet Is Fired
Day 7 Continued: “We’re here, we’re queer, we don’t like the government”
Day 7 Continued: Inevitably, the cops came.
Day 7 Concluded: The Bullet Is Dodged
Day 8: Soulmate. Literally. Not Figuratively.
Day 8 Concluded: Stone Cold
Day 9: The (Two Hour) Courtship of EK’s Mother
Day 9 Continued: The Road to Perdition (and Prague)
The Giddy-Up Courtship becomes Time the First
Day 9’s Surprise Conclusion!
Why Reason Is Needed
Day 10: “Not comin’ all that way just to eat vegetables.”
Travelog Erfurt
Day 11: Remembering Perfection while Flying Coach
Day 11 Concluded: Won’t go naked, but open to party.
Brains! BRAINS! (There is a self! But no free will.)
My Brain Flaps Again
Day 12: Hot for Teacher
Day 12 Concluded: I Used to be Smart … and Dumb(er)
Very Little Really Matters
Day 13: The Puritans were Assholes
Day 13 Concluded: Freezing, Snuggling, and Wine Undrunk
How to Be a Stud: Relationship Advice
Day 14: Prelude to The End of Happiness
Fight the Power Part 1: “To breed or not to breed”
Day 14 Concluded: Worst the First
More Unpopular Opinions
Day 15: A Lot of What?
Fight the Power Part 2: Family Feud
Day 16: “Who eats animals?”
The End of Veganism
Day 16 Continued: Test Your Marriage!
Day 16 Concluded: Money might not buy happiness, but lack of money can bring unhappiness
Money makes the world go ’round, but your time will run out.
Lessons from a lifetime of bad decisions.
Day 17: To the Exurbs – and Beyond!
Day 17 Continued: Time the Second
Brains! Redux: The Mind Is Fragile
Day 17 Concluded: Dazed and Delirious in Deutschland
Day 18: Time of Your Life
Day 19: Wolf Park, Dog Camp, and Time the Third
Bonus Tips
Day 20: “That’s a high math score!”
Day 20 Concluded: Running to Stand Still (SportsBall! redux)
Day 21: Sowing the Seeds…
Day 21 Concluded: “You’re Matt Ball?”
Biting the Philosophical Bullet
My Expected Value Is Bigger Than Yours
I welcome our robot overlords and you should, too!
Day 22: The Shocking Inevitability
Day 23: Flashback to Worst the Second
Day 24: Prelude to Worst the Third
The Interesting Life of an Uninteresting Person
(but really: Drug-Aided Meditation)
A Personal Request from Me to You
Day 25: The One Who Got (Inside) My Heart
Day 26: The Green Party Fucks Us Again
Climate activists are to blame for some of the suffering caused by climate change
Greta Thunberg’s misery is the result of child abuse.
Extinction Is No Big Deal
I Take the Colbert Questionert
Day 27: Burn the Heretic
Travelog for Introverts
Day 28 2021: A Suffering Odyssey
Day 28 Continued: “Maybe I’m paralyzed”
Day 28 Concluded: Free-Falling
Day 16 Revisited: Karma, Money, and a Bread Machine
Mindfulness, Meaning, & More Drugs
Day 29: Good Times! Literally. Not Sarcastically.
Day 29 Concluded: Even with a Soulmate, Life Can Become Not Worth Living
Day 30: The Foreshadowing Pays Off “Where is his heart?”
Day 18 Revisited: So Happy It’s Scary
Day 31: And In The End
