Archive for the 'Sad' Category

It’s gone

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The old magnolia that so elegantly frames my house in the top photo was cut down yesterday. It was badly weakened by a vascular disease, caused by old root damage, so it didn’t have long. […]

Terriblis Est Locus Iste

I haven’t been to the Marketplace Mall in years. I heard they had a Curves there, and thought, hey, it’s closer than the Y, let me go check it out. Around 6 pm, I circle around to the side entrance, which is a very dimly lit, sparsely-populated parking lot. A rapist’s paradise. But I thought, […]

I don’t wanna go back to regular life. I want to stay in the life with cookies everywhere all the time, a the prettiest tree ever covered in lights that you get to sit next to all day while you work, lights on your house, everybody out of town so you don’t have to do […]

The Saddest Songs

I read an article this morning about a scientist in England who researched and found out the saddest songs ever.
Using a shortlist compiled by the Official UK Charts Company, he measured their “tune trigger quotient” measuring heart rate, respiratory response and skin temperature to find the saddest, happiest and most exhilarating tracks.

Well, not surprisingly to […]