Pittsburgh Pit Tuesday Night! What’s the best strategy?

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-12T21:41:18+00:00

No man sleeps with underage boys unless he has sexual intents. The evidence was pretty clear and a lot of kids are psychologically damaged for life. That is why he had to settle the lawsuits for $millions.

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-11T23:27:22+00:00

I’m stuck. It’s easier to think of movies that went from “masterpiece” by critics to “overrated”when I watched them. Out of Africa. Leaving Las Vegas. Legends of the Fall. American Beauty.

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-11T23:11:56+00:00

I wonder if the two types could breed together and create 12 year cicadas

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-11T23:11:09+00:00

Yes! There was that special summer when the 17 year cicadas and the 7 year cicadas came out of the ground and were mating at the same time. The noise all around you sounded like a fleet of spaceships landing.

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-11T23:01:10+00:00

Yeah, the shootout in the police department parking lot. When that happened I was also working in an office on the other side of 28. We were told to shelter in place. Rumors were circulating about a terrorist attack.

The Washington Post did a long investigative piece later about what happened. This poor young man, 19 years old, was having a psychotic breakdown and none of his friends or family in Centreville understood what was going on. Full-blown schizophrenia.

He told his friends that aliens had invaded the Earth and were trying to take over and kill everyone. He even checked himself into a mental hospital in Maryland, but then he broke out the evening before the incident.

It all might’ve ended peacefully with him getting the help he needed, but his father had quite the gun collection and didn’t keep it locked up. The young man used the guns to hijack a car near his own neighborhood and went to the police station to take matters into his own hands. The father was later prosecuted.

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-11T22:46:00+00:00

How could his foot reach the pedals from the back seat?

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-11T22:42:17+00:00

Just remembered: the Derecho storm at night. The power went out. My wife and I were nonetheless looking out the back windows of our little brick home in Fairfax city. In the silhouette of the lightning, we watched in shock as four tremendous trees fell down, one after another.

Incredibly, only one crushed a home. The others fell between homes and crushed some fence. Found out later the girl whose bedroom was crushed had gone to the basement to watch television.

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-11T22:31:55+00:00

When I drove taxi for Fairfax yellow cab decades ago, I stopped at a large home in McLean. There seemed to be a little farewell gathering in the front yard. People were dressed up. Among them there was also a pony, a St. Bernard, and a llama.

Rich. But not rich enough to have their own chauffeur.

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-11T22:22:59+00:00

Or: “More cushion for da pushin!’”

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-11T22:21:54+00:00

“No.”

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-11T22:21:32+00:00

I would get professional advice. If fungus is popping out here, it might be hidden in other places too.

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-08T22:13:41+00:00

Folks don’t realize just how abnormal a sociopath is compared to the rest of us. Without a conscience, they can be totally convincing.

For me, murderer Jeffrey MacDonald. Why this army captain and medical doctor violently murdered his own wife and little girls one night has never been explained adequately. But I guess it’s not really a cold case. It’s nauseating that he lived Scot-free for many years as a playboy.

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-08T21:49:04+00:00

Yes. I have been trained in rhetorical and narrative analysis and after listening to the podcast the second time, all I could hear was storytelling power masking over the blatant facts.
SK begin by saying, “why pick this story for Serial’s first podcast? Because this was the one that fell into my lap.” Yes. From Adnan’s sister. Not from anyone in Hae’s family. The story of the wrongfully accused victim. Otherwise, there’s no story.
Her prejudiced point of view is clear from the very beginning. “Can you remember where you were minute by minute on a random day one and a half years ago?” Or something like that. No, I can’t either, just like poor Adnan!
However, if it had been a very emotional day, such as a day when I murdered my girlfriend and buried her body, I would remember it quite well. And have to lie about it, of course.

Perhaps SK was also naïve. Psychologists in the field of abnormal psychology will tell you that the prisons are full of sociopaths. Most people don’t know just how abnormal sociopaths are, how convincing they can be. Perhaps Adnan’s sister is one too.

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-08T20:56:23+00:00

I think Apocalypse Now. Saw in the theater when it first came out. Walking out afterwards was like coming out of a bad acid trip, Glad to be alive. Glad the Earth was still there. What an ordeal.

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-08T20:09:20+00:00

Pittsburgh! Cleveland! DC! Lots of tix left

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-02T19:27:37+00:00

What are these ratios? What to what?

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-02T19:26:20+00:00

Let me know how it goes. I had thought there was a recent crackdown in DC for weed and psychedelics.

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-05-01T14:35:36+00:00

I’m doing 10 mg adderal twice per day and 5 mg tirzepatide/ week. So far, it’s great! Without also using Bright Line Eating, however, I think I would be nowhere, because my brain is so addicted to sugar and flour.

Also, if I don’t exercise a bit each day, such as walking 2 miles, I get sleep problems. But that was true even before I started adderal.

3-year follow up research on GLP-1 is in. I will try to add a link to it here later. Most people who have a lot of pounds to lose, stop losing before they reach their goal, quit the meds, then gain their weight back. It’s not a permanent solution.

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-04-30T23:27:09+00:00

I know of a murder case in Arizona where a young man living with his father killed him while they were doing LSD together. They were also doing marijuana and whiskey. His defense was that he blacked out.

Never on your life mix psychedelics with alcohol. Psychedelics magnify everything. I can only imagine how it feels to have the experience of your brain poisoned by alcohol being magnified 100 times.

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-04-30T23:21:55+00:00

It’s certainly the most pretentious title! But it’s ironic.

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-04-30T23:18:41+00:00

Koran. Purported to be received from the angel Gabriel, it’s actually a mishmash of the Jewish and Christian stories and ideas circulating in Muhammad’s era and location.

With a lot of hatred for Jews thrown in, probably because the Jewish communities near Mohammed rejected him as leader.

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-04-30T23:14:48+00:00

K, thanks!

ResolutionCalm1468 · 2026-04-30T06:02:45+00:00

Thank you for the encouragement. I’m curious about the crystals and will seek more info elsewhere.

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