Existential Angst.
Deborah Young
- Location
- Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.
- Birthday
- July 30
- Title
- C.E.O.
- Company
- Existential Angst, L.L.C.
- Bio
- I'm a political analyst and cultural voyeur & usually write about when those two things merge. I'm an amateur mother, a professional reader and excel in generalized anxiety, although sadly there is very little reimbursement for that particular skill. And of course, I love books & dogs.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Agreed. And
rated.”
9:24PM - “If she is sending you
job opp's and asking you to be
a
facebook friend then she
c…”
6:56PM - “We have nothing to fear
but fear itself. Sometimes you
just
have to say fuck
it!”
6:42PM - “Very, very gently. With
cake.”
November 06, 2009 04:23PM - “My son is 17 and in
order to get into college he
will be
signing up for this.
It…”
November 06, 2009 02:28PM
Deborah Young's Links
- Haiku Nation
- My own private Taliban.
- My Blog Entry Index
- A Baby Boomer goes under the [gamma] knife
- on David Letterman
- What to do with $1000.
- Annie Leibovitz - Too Artistic To Fail?
- The Caregivers Lament
- Cutting Off Joes Balls.
- Snorting Forgiveness.
- Breaking Out of the Hospital: A renegade Tale.
- Shattered: Our horrible hospital experience.
- Panhandling for Vitamin B-12
- Chop wood, carry water.
- The Face of Pain.
- My teenage son got pierced. Again. And Again.
- Hypochondria and other Life annoyances
- A Study in 21st Century Teenager.
- Courtney Love should replace Paula Abdul!
- Refrigerator Art in Honolulu.
- "Funny People": Movie Review
- Rewarding Goldman-Sachs: You're Welcome.
- Goldman-Sachs: Treason from within.
- If you've given up on your life's dreams, please press 6.
- The Infantilization of the Human Spirit
- Farrah Fawcett: An American Icon
- Iran, Multiculturalism & Genital Mutilation
- Jon & Kates big announcement
- My Life as a Teenage(rs) Mother
- When Ted Kennedy came to my house - circa 1970.
- Camille Paglia: A Rorschach Test
- Art in the Young Household
- Sibling Rivalry
- Elie Wiesel. A Life.
- American Czars are little Caesars.
- My teenage son wants to get pierced!
- Man vs. Wild vs. Giada!
- I just quit my job, so I can raise my puppy!
- Housework Manifesto
- My Stint as a Starbucks Barista, Baby Boomer Style
- I Live With Narcissus
- Middle-Age is like dying from Hypothermia
- When Your Nemesis Dies
- Ladies! Stop Giving birth to your grandchildren.
- I just quit my job...so I can do yours.
- Che's Dead, Get over it
- My most memorable meal
- Eventually we all go crazy.
- Sean Penn
- AIG? You're fired.
- Is Cancer Inevitable?
- Musings on doing nothing when I get cancer
- Articles of Interest
- Who caused the economic crisis? Part I
- Can only the rich afford to eat ethically? by Siobhan Phillips
- Great Posts to read!
- Women over 50 find it hard to remarry.
- The Lazy OSer way to digg and redditt by BBE
- O.S. Making a link in comments
- The 25 most annoying phrases of all time! by Beth Mann
- Why I'm alone. by Lea Lane
- Stats on your OS posts! Or, "Hello is anyone out there?"
- Chimp Controversy Alert! Obama is NOT the Prophet Mohammed
An Uptight White Chick Goes To Church
I went to church this morning. A big, welcoming, friendly, music-playing, hip-swaying, hands-on laying church. You just don't realize how uptight you are until you're in a crowd of Christians feeling the spirit. And in Hawaii, the church is filled with Portuguese, Hawaiian, Vietnamese, Filipino, Chin… Read full post »
A Baby-Boomer Goes Under the [Gamma] Knife
"Okay Mr. Young. Today we'll be preparing you for your Gamma Knife. We'll be doing a CT scan and an MRI. There will be injections, very similar to the ones you receive at the dentist, to the 4 spots on your head where we will screw on the head cage. I… Read full post »
Almost 30 years ago I worked full-time at an alternative newspaper in Santa Barbara. I wrote articles and helped keep the community events section organized as well. Men and women worked there, there was smoking inside while working, pot smoking in the back, beer drinking at night while working late… Read full post »
What To Do With $1000.00
This article in MONEY magazines November 2009 issue caught my attention.
What to do with $1000?
They suggest: Top off your Emergency Fund! You need fully six months worth of expenses set aside in a liquid account.
I respond: Of what Emergency Fund do you speak ? How about START… Read full post »
Annie Leibovitz - Too Artistic to Fail!
Bad judgement. Poor choices. Delusions of grandeur.
Annie and Goldman Sachs are two peas in a pod.
Spending above your means. Throwing good money after bad. Arrogance in the face of poor financial choices. Asking to be bailed out.
As the bible says: "What has been is what will be, and… Read full post »
The Caregivers Lament
I know. When you're sick it's all about you, you, you. I get that. When I'm sick it's all about me [unless my child or spouse is sick at the same time, then suddenly it's not about me.]
How do I cross this great divide? How do I maneuver over this… Read full post »
Cutting off Joes Balls
Well we cut off Joes balls.
Don't judge me.
Joe had turned into a frantic, hysterical, adolescent male animal when our 7 year old heeler who we thought was menopausal went into heat.
Oh my God.
Our little guy who had been doing so well in his training, who… Read full post »
Snorting Forgiveness
Lately I've been snorting forgiveness. Literally.
I buy essential oils that come in single oils or blends. The blends are named things like "Peace and Calming", "Joy", "Trauma Life" [there's a popular one] and "Forgiveness."
I've been snorting Forgiveness. Daily.
During my husbands fight for his life… Read full post »
Breaking Out of the Hospital: A renegade tale
It took 10 male nurses to restrain my husband and tie him to his bed like a scene from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. There was blood everywhere.
Two nights ago my husband looked at me wild-eyed. It was day 7 of being in the hospital which has no… Read full post »
The night the neurologist threw a tantrum and stormed out of the hospital with me crying after her to come back was one of the worst experiences of my life. Until my husband almost stopped breathing due to too much narcotic pain medication and almost pulled a "Michael Jackson" as the… Read full post »
2-minute snapshot
I managed to get to a bookstore yesterday. I was looking for anything Carolyn Myss to carry me through the next couple of weeks. They didn't have anything I didn't already have. Must I re-read her?
Took the time to check out the new books. On Amazon.com today I will buy:… Read full post »
Panhandling for Vitamin B-12
"Hey brother! Got any B-12 on you?"
In America today we can get a 90 day mail order supply of tegratol, neurontin, baclofen, klonopin, xanax, ambien. Naproxen and even steroids. What we cannot get easily is Vitamin B-12. Which you cannot overdose on. Which stores any overages in your liver and… Read full post »
Chop Wood, Carry Water.
UPDATE 9/11: He started B-12 injections but they want to give him one a week which isn't enough [we're begging for B-12] so we have to supplement with a naturopath. He is still having breakthrough face pain even with the maximum amount of meds. We've applied to the Mayo clinic for… Read full post »
The Face of Pain
"Life is suffering." Gautama Siddharta (Buddha)
Okay, we all walk a similar path. I don't care how different we are.
We will age, get sick and die. Some of us will die violent deaths - car accidents, murders - while others will die quickly - massive heart attacks, aneurysms.… Read full post »
When my teenage son wanted to get a lip pierced we went around and around until it was decided, yes, he could do this but it would be the only one. End of subject. And that lasted for one month. The lip piercing almost got infected, got complicated, rings went… Read full post »
Hypochondria & other life annoyances
I asked for a defibrillator for Christmas.
I wanted to hang it in the kitchen so when I go into cardiac arrest somebody could grab it, apply it to my chest and shock me back into life so I can live to enjoy another New Years. Unfortunately I just read that… Read full post »
21st Century Teenage-hood. I wonder what they were like in caveman days? 800 B.C.? 14th century? Before they had a cellphone, a computer, a pierced lip [or is that just mine?], an ipod and lots of fresh air, free food and a room of their own? Never in the history of… Read full post »
Courtney Love! Of course!
Now that Paula Abdul is stepping down from her place in Idol royalty, the best woman to replace her is Courtney Love.
Courtney, lead singer and lyricist for the band "Hole" is perfect for the role. She's an anorexic, recovering drug addict, 45 year old alternative rocker who plays guitar and… Read full post »
Refrigerator Art in Honolulu.
As a first-worlder, I embrace technology with open arms.
I love refrigeration and the fact it means my oreo's last longer
than a week! Glorious! I can keep meat and fish chilled and won't
die of some horrible food poisoning - unless I eat at a fancy
restaurant, and… Read full post »
Channeling Squirrel Doing Adam Sandler: A Movie Review
So it's my turn to pick something fun to do on Sunday cause we never do ANYTHING fun at all, it's just work, work, work all week and then guess what? Work some more on the weekend. So we always say we'll take Sundays off and do something fun and it… Read full post »
Mongoose Love
Driving around the bend today - a mongoose,
In the middle of the road, bowed in prayerful pose
His mongoose wife: roadkill.
He bends over her, I sit in my car, waiting for his
Eulogy to end. He looks up at me, our eyes meet,
He turns and runs into… Read full post »
Rewarding Goldman-Sachs: You're welcome.
I meet people all of the time who swear that if they had been alive in Nazi Germany, what courageous things they would have done.
Or Stalinist Russia. Or during the underground railroad for slaves.
But now, when they have a chance to help America and add their voice to the… Read full post »
Who I pissed off on my summer vacation
Well here I am in California enjoying the earthy smells and gorgeous vistas. It's bringing back so many memories of living here years ago. I'm in the Middle of Nowhere, CA, near Yosemite and spent the day there yesterday. But along with the beautiful geographical eye-candy comes the inevitable family… Read full post »
Goldman-Sachs: Treason From Within.
"A nation can survive it's fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the… Read full post »
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Updates
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Temporary Weekend Fluff Picture Post! LTO.
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Tea Party Nov 2: Black Minister Challenges Whites (video)
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Sample of Non-OS Writing: Signs of Life ;0)
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Fort Hood And Religion
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The Museum of Lost Things
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Fiction Friday Finds UPDATED!
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so long and thanks for all the fish.
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