The 99th Monkey

Limbaugh & Hannity Endorse Obama!

Eliezer Sobel — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:24:53 +0000

I was hoping to trick Huff Post with this headline and get them to put this piece on the main news page…but they saw right through the ruse; it’s in comedy.

LIMBAUGH & HANNITY ENDORSE OBAMA!

My elementary school friends, Melvin Limbaugh and Charley Hannity were always such blowhards. They had an opinion about everything. And they always agreed about everything, which I could never quite understand.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eliezer-sobel/limbaugh-hannity-endorse-_b_1211903.html

Couples in Conflict: On NOT Throwing the Pasta

Eliezer Sobel — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:26:39 +0000

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Couples in Conflict

By Eliezer Sobel on January, 12, 2012 in Psychology Today

A friend of mine was speaking to me today about an ancient relationship, and commented, “That was during my food-throwing years.” I asked for further details. “Melons. I specialized in melons.” “Canteloupe?” “Honeydew.” “Are we talking the whole melon, or little melon balls?” “The whole melon; I’d usually crack it over their heads.” Read More

The Most Inspiration I Can Muster, For the Moment

Eliezer Sobel — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:58:36 +0000

Words of Good Cheer, Mostly

By Eliezer Sobel on December, 10, 2011 in The 99th Monkey

Dear Reader, At this very moment, I am taking up your valuable and precious, limited time within this transitory, earthly existence. You could stop reading right now, Read More

Shootin’ the Blues Away

Eliezer Sobel — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:40:58 +0000

GUNS AS AN ANTIDEPRESSANT?

“shootin’ the blues away” was the subject line. The email was from D., a new acquaintance I met at an art opening a few months ago, a 70+ writer guy with Parkinson’s. His tremors had been calmed considerably by a brain implant, and I don’t think I would have even noticed anything amiss if he hadn’t told me.

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Please Do Me A Favor…

Eliezer Sobel — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:07:46 +0000

I think this blogsite got screwed up. It tells me I have two subscribers, and one of them is me. If you are receiving this, can you drop me an email to let me know? thanks–

eliezering@comcast.net

Meanwhile, if you DID receive a post earlier today, repeated below, it was missing the proper link to connect, which I’ve now repaired:

Are You A Real Writer?

Writers learn early on that there are actually many people out there, incomprehensible as it may seem, who simply do not enjoy reading our work. (We probably wouldn’t be very close friends with these Neanderthals, if we met them.) We try not to take it personally, but most of us do. Some random, sub-human casually mentions in passing that, in their grossly distorted and useless opinion, our written expressions fall short of Tolstoy’s, and instantly both our writings and our entire lives seem completely worthless to us. Obviously, that gives way too much power to readers. But often true, nonetheless. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE

40th Anniversary of the “est” Training

Eliezer Sobel — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:36:58 +0000

40th Anniversary of The “est” Training

Forty years after the inception of “est,” one of the original intensive consciousness seminars that launched the Human Potential Movement of the 70s, its graduates are reuniting at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on December 17th. Read More

You Are Not Chemically Imbalanced!

Eliezer Sobel — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:05:44 +0000

I just read such a depressing book that it would make just about anyone need an antidepressant if it wasn’t for the fact that the book itself debunks the entire psychopharmacological industry in such a convincing way that it would be maddening if it weren’t so saddening. Read More

Self-Caregiver Burnout

Eliezer Sobel — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:00:59 +0000

Self-Caregiver Burnout

By Eliezer Sobel on July 16, 2011 in The 99th Monkey

In the infant days of the New Age movement in the United States, it was often said about relationships that, “In order to truly love someone else, you have to love yourself first.” I tried that, but found that I needed to have an open relationship with myself, so if things didn’t work out I’d be free to see other people. Read More

I Go To Pieces

Eliezer Sobel — Thu, 26 May 2011 19:32:59 +0000

The foot guy at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York told me I had no cartilage in my big toes, and I only had two choices: surgery to fuse the bones, or be in pain when I walk. The surgery requires ten weeks recovery time per toe, most of it lying down. Read More

My Wife Shari’s Birthday Surprise…ME!

Eliezer Sobel — Sat, 14 May 2011 11:39:34 +0000

I’m the Gift!

By Eliezer Sobel on May 14, 2011 in The 99th Monkey May 14, 2011

I had to get her store credit at The Cat Store for the oversized kitty nightshirt I bought her; I had never noticed that she sleeps au naturel. (I’m not always the most observant guy.) Read More