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Category: psychology

  • TV is Garbage

    If there’s one thing that can distract from recent crappiness, it’s the new Fall TV season. Tonight the new season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles starts. Last season was OK, but I wasn’t really planning on watching this one. That is, until I heard who was joining the cast. Shirley fucking Manson! I fell…

  • The Sacred Mushroom

    OK this is long, but worth watching. It’s a show called One Step Beyond, from 1961, about psychedelic mushrooms (i.e., magic mushrooms) and whether or not they enhance ESP. There are so many fascinating / hilarious things about this video. The way they talk funny (“a man was shot!”… “and shot AT!”); the host himself…

  • This Place is the Best

    So think about this. People often think that their city is the best in several different ways. Wherever they live has the greatest bars, the most beautiful women, the best tacos, whatever. But how do people come to hold these opinions? Well, one way would be to try to remember the best members of the…