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Published October 4, 2024
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16 books1 follower1st, the author's name is "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE". Because of algorithms and their slaves his name is corrupted in two ways on Goodreads, making his full 22 books not display in either of the 2 entries. Here's the link to the other page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Anyway, he was born, he proceeded to do his damnedest to try to undermine reality maintenance traps, aka the dominant paradigms. While it's more than a little debatable whether he's succeeded even a smidge in this area few would deny that he's given it ye olde anti-college try.
He's been busy in at least 66 cities in at least 14 countries. He's been an off-center figure in quite a few underground movements - including, but not limited to, Anarchism, Neoism, Nuclear Brain Physics Surgery School, Krononauts, etc.
He's on the cusp of turning 71. It's his ambition to live to be about 123 so he can outlive the oldest person on record and so that he can outlive his manymies. He fully expects to not make it.
Anyway, he was born, he proceeded to do his damnedest to try to undermine reality maintenance traps, aka the dominant paradigms. While it's more than a little debatable whether he's succeeded even a smidge in this area few would deny that he's given it ye olde anti-college try.
He's been busy in at least 66 cities in at least 14 countries. He's been an off-center figure in quite a few underground movements - including, but not limited to, Anarchism, Neoism, Nuclear Brain Physics Surgery School, Krononauts, etc.
He's on the cusp of turning 71. It's his ambition to live to be about 123 so he can outlive the oldest person on record and so that he can outlive his manymies. He fully expects to not make it.
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tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's Positive
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - October 7, 2024E.V.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJJTMGWG/...
This cd be called my 23rd bk. In 2005, my friend Julie Gonzalez & I were each being self-critical b/c of our negative complaining attitudes. We were sick of ourselves. I proposed that we keep Positive Diaries in wch we'd comment on our every day, listing only what had happened positive during the day. While such a thing may appear 'effortless' in writing it wasn't always easy. I wrote my diary for a yr & then stopped, it seemed like I'd kept it up long enuf. At the time I found the process somewhat boring so I filed away the diary & didn't think about it much. I DID, however, recommend keeping such a diary to people I talked w/ who had a similar problem w/ excessive negativity. In general, I think the diary was a good idea.
Over the decades, I toyed w/ the idea of publishing Positive but generally rejected it as being not that fascinating of a read. Recently, I changed my mind. I love my other bk sbut I have to acknowledge that for most readers they're probably a bit too difficult. Positive's purpose & way of presenting that purpose is an easy read, the bk's fairly short, the size of the bk is easy to carry, & the price is as cheap as I cd make it. All in all, I've tried to make this my most accessible bk - maybe it's so accessible that people will criticize it as too simple. I think it's not only a fun read, both for people who're friends of mine in the bk & for people who don't know me or those friends, but also one likely to stimulate a, inrtrospective positivity in the reader. Here's how I promote it on the bk's back cover:
From August 1, 2005, to July 31, 2006, the author kept a Positive diary in which he only made entries of positive things that happened to him that day. The purpose was to counteract his self-diagnosed negativity. It's the author's opinion that this helped him develop a much-needed positive attitude in the face of everyday aggravations such as abusive work conditions. In retrospect, rereading it 19 years later, it's also made him realize just how good his life was even during some severely trying times. It's hoped that people reading this will reflect on their own lives in a similarly positive way.
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE was born Michael Frederick Tolson in Baltimore on September 4, 1953. Being a natural-born anarchist he developed his resistance to what he felt were oppressive social systems by using creativity & absurdism to subvert & undermine what he observed to be the hidden and not-so-hidden infrastructures for maintaining an inflicted class structure. This involved associations with like-minded people such as Language Poets, SubGenii, free improvisors, Neoists, and miscellaneous other avant gardes. His death on September 3, 1953 has left people confused.
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's Positive
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - October 7, 2024E.V.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJJTMGWG/...
This cd be called my 23rd bk. In 2005, my friend Julie Gonzalez & I were each being self-critical b/c of our negative complaining attitudes. We were sick of ourselves. I proposed that we keep Positive Diaries in wch we'd comment on our every day, listing only what had happened positive during the day. While such a thing may appear 'effortless' in writing it wasn't always easy. I wrote my diary for a yr & then stopped, it seemed like I'd kept it up long enuf. At the time I found the process somewhat boring so I filed away the diary & didn't think about it much. I DID, however, recommend keeping such a diary to people I talked w/ who had a similar problem w/ excessive negativity. In general, I think the diary was a good idea.
Over the decades, I toyed w/ the idea of publishing Positive but generally rejected it as being not that fascinating of a read. Recently, I changed my mind. I love my other bk sbut I have to acknowledge that for most readers they're probably a bit too difficult. Positive's purpose & way of presenting that purpose is an easy read, the bk's fairly short, the size of the bk is easy to carry, & the price is as cheap as I cd make it. All in all, I've tried to make this my most accessible bk - maybe it's so accessible that people will criticize it as too simple. I think it's not only a fun read, both for people who're friends of mine in the bk & for people who don't know me or those friends, but also one likely to stimulate a, inrtrospective positivity in the reader. Here's how I promote it on the bk's back cover:
From August 1, 2005, to July 31, 2006, the author kept a Positive diary in which he only made entries of positive things that happened to him that day. The purpose was to counteract his self-diagnosed negativity. It's the author's opinion that this helped him develop a much-needed positive attitude in the face of everyday aggravations such as abusive work conditions. In retrospect, rereading it 19 years later, it's also made him realize just how good his life was even during some severely trying times. It's hoped that people reading this will reflect on their own lives in a similarly positive way.
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE was born Michael Frederick Tolson in Baltimore on September 4, 1953. Being a natural-born anarchist he developed his resistance to what he felt were oppressive social systems by using creativity & absurdism to subvert & undermine what he observed to be the hidden and not-so-hidden infrastructures for maintaining an inflicted class structure. This involved associations with like-minded people such as Language Poets, SubGenii, free improvisors, Neoists, and miscellaneous other avant gardes. His death on September 3, 1953 has left people confused.
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