Welcome to Words, Music and Radical Common Sense!
I’m Chris Preston, writer and recording artist. This is where you’ll find some of my more transitory writing, information about my music and records, and more, or less.
Latest from the blog
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It’s the oddest thing. The entire country is in an abusive relationship. At the minimum, people are being psychologically tortured with chaos, gaslighted and lied to. At the worst, they are being killed, beaten, violated, falsely imprisoned and terrorized. If you went to your therapist and complained about an abusive relationship like this, you wouldn’t
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They’re sleepwalking. I started to notice the pattern this week and now it’s everywhere I look. No fewer than half a dozen times this week, I’ve asked someone a simple question and received a non-answer, or one that shows no understanding of the question I’m asking. For example, I recently canceled a credit card. I
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I maintain that short form internet video is the best evidence of human devolution. Aldous Huxley was right. We will do ourselves in with pleasure. The brain has an infinite appetite for the novelty of this stuff, if not the subject matter. The short form internet video exploits the brain’s shortcomings, one of which is
New Aquarius, my most recent album. Available by download.
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”
Walt Whitman
