Boo Trundle

scratch your head . . . itchybanquet.com

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MOMS can be GOOD

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Are We Infected?

Boo Trundle discusses Life Raft Books like Pride and Prejudice. Also, creative visualization and the National Book Award, puzzling minds, schisms.

My purpose on earth is to help in the project of UNDERSTANDING FEELINGS. What are they anyway? Are they aliens? Are we infected? I'm a scientist in the word lab. My address is: Pretty Baby Life-raft, The Sea.

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The New Yorker

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PYSCHOANALITICAL: Relationships Being Everything, Of Course

Boo Trundle discusses TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller and introduces her theory of "therapeutic fiction" which inserts the naughty word "spiritual" into the literary conversation.

reflections on the possibility of healing through reading and writing fiction, did we take a wrong turn in the 1930s, why is the self-help movement divorced from literary circles? i give you a tour of my self help book shelves, which is like giving you a tour of my soul; also, THE C WORD xoxo

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Episode 20: Young Love

This episode of Singleling showcases stories about young loves. The first love that drove us crazy in many different ways. On this episode: Courtney Weber is a Wiccan Priestess, writer, Tarot Adviser, and metaphysical teacher living in McMinnville, OR. She is the author

happy to have a guest spot on this podcast offering my EXPERT (?) opinion on the ways we betray our authentic self when we step from childhood into the arena of romantic love.

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PSYCHOANALITICAL: Mortal Souls on the Bat Ladder

Boo Trundle discusses THE BIRTH OF PLEASURE by Carol Gilligan. Topics include trauma circles, the incest rife within the Greek God community, and how passionate love can maybe only thrive at the fringes of our orderly lives.

“We are no longer in sync.” First, the loss of the lover. Then, the loss of the self that loved.

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PSYCHOANALITICAL: Keeping it Rilke

Boo Trundle discusses READING RILKE by William H. Gass. Also Angels, and fleetingness, and love, and lovers. And wombs and bees.

Send me an Angel, maybe on a Harley.

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PSYCHOANALITICAL: The Unattainable Love Object

Boo Trundle reflects on Quartet by Jean Rhys and The Unattainable Love Object.

Other books you might enjoy: Women Who Love Too Much, Men Who Hate Women & the Women Who Love Them, Why Men Love Bitches, Freud: The Hits.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEnoe8btnFA)

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Anyone else want a very butch girlfriend who’ll protect you like a Fabergé egg?

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reblog for the universe to send you a very butch girlfriend who’ll protect you like a Fabergé egg

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Misery and Justice

The Bible is maybe the most generic and unfocused self-help tool around. At the very least, it's out of date.

Self-pitying scab pickers everywhere unite for world peace!

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chimneys of elizabeth (at South Mountain Reservation)

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born yesterday

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAoADCSpD-8)

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Brevity Codes for Busy Lovers

10-0 Use Caution 10-1 You are being received Poorly 10-2 You are being received Clearly 10-3 Stop Transmitting 10-4 O.K. 10-5 Relay Message 10-15 Prisoner in custody

10-15m Prisoner in custody (mental case) 10-16 Pick up prisoner 10-21B Call your home 10-30 Does not conform to rules or regulations 10-31 Is lie detector available?

10-32 Man with gun. 10-54d Possible dead body 10-72 Stand by for Civil Defense Test 10-74 Civil Defense Clear 10-75 Severe weather statement 10-91B Noisy animal (Barking) 10-91D Dead animal 10-91H Stray Horse 10-92 Your quality is poor 10-93 Your quality is good 10-100 Out using restroom

10-102 Cruelty to animals 10-103 Disturbance 10-103f Disturbance by fight 10-103m Disturbance by mental person 10-106 Obscenity 10-107 Suspicious person 10-108 Officer down or Officer needs assistance 10-112 Impersonating an officer 11-6 Illegal discharge of firearms 11-7 Prowler 11-8 Person down

11-13 Injured animal 11-14 Animal bite 11-15 Ball game in street 11-26 Abandoned bicycle 11-27 Subject has felony record, but is not wanted 11-31 Person calling for help 11-40 Advise station if ambulance is needed 11-41 Request Ambulance 11-42 Ambulance not required 11-43 Doctor required 11-44 Coroner required 11-45 Attempted suicide 11-46 Death report 

11-47 Injured Person

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Is Fantasy a form of Abuse?

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Infinite Jest @ White Lines (Ups and Downs)

trump's views on suicide, literary fiction, and the end of the truth

i find it very healing to pretend to be a liar