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Naming It Out Loud
Why Ignore the Stigmas now has a Mental Illness section — and what belongs in it. This site began as a music blog with an argument underneath it. The argument is that the music kept telling us something, and that America kept changing the subject. That is why the songs are so full of it.…
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Nietzsche Unplugged, Part 6: Will to Power & Amor Fati
The engine and the love — the two pillars that make Nietzsche’s philosophy constructive. The engine and the heart Will to power is the drive to grow, overcome and create. It is power-to-become, not power-over-others: not domination, cruelty or selfishness, but self-overcoming. Amor fati is its counterpart: “That one wants nothing to be different, not…
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Nietzsche Unplugged, Part 5: Eternal Recurrence
The heaviest weight — a mirror that tests whether you love your life. The demon’s challenge A demon steals into your loneliest loneliness and says it: “This life you now live, you will have to live again and again, exactly the same.” The eternal hourglass is turned over again and again — “and you with…
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Nietzsche Unplugged, Part 4: The Übermensch
The most misused idea in philosophy — an ideal of self-creation, not domination. A bridge, not a super-being “Man is a bridge and not an end; what can be loved in man is that he is a crossing.” “Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Overman — a rope over an abyss.”…
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Nietzsche Unplugged, Part 3: Master & Slave Morality
Nietzsche asked not ‘what is good?’ but ‘who invented it, and why?’ Two moralities, two foundations The distinction runs like this. Master morality begins with “I am good” — self-affirmation, strength, pride, courage. Slave morality begins with “you are evil, therefore I am good”: it is defined by opposing the strong rather than by anything…
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Nietzsche Unplugged, Part 2: God Is Dead
The most misquoted sentence in philosophy was a warning, not a victory cry. A bomb in the marketplace The line appears in The Gay Science (1882): “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.” It is delivered by a frantic madman — not a triumphant atheist — searching with a lantern. Nietzsche…
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Nietzsche Unplugged, Part 1: The Man Who Wielded a Hammer
A prodigy, a wanderer, a collapse — a life inseparable from his philosophy. Nietzsche Unplugged is a six-part series: the man, the death of God, master and slave morality, the Overman, eternal recurrence, and will to power and amor fati. This is Part 1. A life of brilliance and loss Nietzsche was born in 1844…
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Stevie Nicks Discography in Order: All 8 Solo Albums (Plus the Fleetwood Mac Years)
A complete, chronological guide to every Stevie Nicks solo studio album — and the Fleetwood Mac records that made her name. Quick Answer Stevie Nicks has released 8 solo studio albums, beginning with Bella Donna in 1981 and most recently 24 Karat Gold in 2014. Before that, she recorded with Fleetwood Mac from 1975 onward.…
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Stevie Nicks: The Mystic Who Built One of Rock’s Great Solo Careers
How the Fleetwood Mac singer turned dreamlike songwriting into a five-decade career — and became the first woman inducted into the Rock Hall twice. Who Is Stevie Nicks? Stevie Nicks is an American singer-songwriter, born Stephanie Lynn Nicks on 26 May 1948 in Phoenix, Arizona. She is best known as the voice and pen behind…
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Syd Barrett Was Not Your Crazy Diamond
Before he was a cautionary tale, he was Roger Keith Barrett — the fourth of five children, born in Cambridge in 1946, nicknamed Syd at fifteen. He could paint, he could play guitar, and in 1965 he helped start a band that became Pink Floyd. For two years he was the one who wrote the…
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