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Me and Bing #3: Corporations and Child Abuse
Under 5 minutes to read and no adult content warning! Bizarrely, I promised at the end of “Me and Bing #2” to ask the bot, “Are corporations complicit in child abuse?” Must have thought I was an investigative journalist or something. Bing was back in good form and responded soberly: “Child abuse is a serious Continue reading
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Me and Bing #2: The Choking Chatbot
Under 6 minutes to read! And yet, the usual mature content warning applies. So, one of my little jokes in the previous post was to suggest that ‘maybe I should ask Bing’s ChatBot: “can a person throw themselves face first into a snow bank and maintain their erection?”’ I didn’t ask that, ‘cuz, you know, Continue reading
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Me and Bing: Running Naked in the Snow
Just 5 minutes to read – but the usual mature content warnings apply! Now that we’ve had our first couple of winter snows in Santa Fe – and non-trivial drops they were: 7 inches to start – I’m reminded of what may have been my first sexual kink: going outside naked in the snow. Rather Continue reading
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Gusty Winds May Exist
We pass this sign on our more-or-less weekly drive between Santa Fe and Las Vegas, New Mexico, and we always imagine that what the Ministry of Signage had intended to say was “Gusty Winds are known to exist, and when they occur on this stretch of road they may prove to be hazardous. So be Continue reading
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The Migraine Trilogy, Part III: A Paper, A Frog, and A Racket
Rated WP-MA: mature language, childish language, children (real and imaginary) in danger, an offensive (yet cute) image The Paper First time I visited Santa Fe was when I was a struggling grad student in Anthropology, a few years before I began to recover the memories of what happened to me as a child. So, that Continue reading
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A Reluctant Giant, Nameless Little Girl, and What They Did
Rated WP-MA: language, self-esteem issues, potentially fatal car crashes So far as we can recall, we’ve never drawn a stick figure homage to a Brian De Palma film before and are pleased to have found an opportunity to finally do so. In case you don’t recognize which film, it’s The Fury, and we’ll leave you Continue reading
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Me and Our Migraines
We may have mentioned in an earlier post – or maybe it was just in the manuscript of our book? – that a couple of years ago we got rid of the habit we’ve had since puberty of giving ourselves migraines whenever we were planning to do something that threatened to expose us to intolerable Continue reading
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Open Spaces on Crowded Pages
Trigger warning: or maybe not, I don’t know how much it takes to trigger you. There are some dirty words, and references to sexual abuse, but they’re handwritten, so you probably won’t be able to read them anyway. We presume you’re wondering We presume you’re wondering where these stick figure drawings that accompany our posts Continue reading
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Renfield, or “I’ll hurt everyone you care about”
As you know, if you’ve read a review of or seen the trailer for Renfield, the movie’s amusing and basically satisfying twist on the Dracula lore is to put the focus on the co-dependent relationship between the vampire and his servant, Renfield. And though we’ve had our share of co-dependent relationships down the years, the Continue reading
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Inner Child Work, Done Wrong – Part 2
I don’t imagine I need to say, “read part 1 first”? I imagine I do need to say “trigger warning: passing (and possibly gratuitous) reference to sexual abuse of a child.” Third aberration: instability Everything I’ve ever encountered about inner children – and there’s been a lot of it – seems to operate on a Continue reading
About Me
Michael A. Leavy is a neuroqueer author, anarchist, retired educator, dabbler in magic, onetime actor, Tarot reader…
If you haven’t read the introductory blog you might wonder about our use, now and again, of the 1st person plural pronoun. Though there is only one Michael at the keyboard, there are, as you can gather from the content of some of the posts, multiple active occupants in our psyche, so the plural pronoun is often preferred. There are many occasions, though, on which, for any number of reasons, the singular seems more apt, so it appears regularly as well.
The Anarchic* Psyche of Michael A Leavy 