About This Blog
You need a social media presence!
That phrase can send shivers down the spine of someone who misses analog photography, still has a CD player, and reads books off-screen! However, years ago, an editor told me just that. So against my nature, I decided to self-promote.
Journaling & Applied Narratology
Your journals and your narratives serve different needs and purposes, but they are all part of your life and narrative journey. So when you dive into applied narratology, remember your brain dump containers. They are your raw material.
Applied Narratology
I have written more than once about writing on this website. I do so because I believe writing is a great way to deal with life's many problems. However, when I say writing, I don’t mean sitting down and writing just anything. I mean creating a structured, intentional fictional space using what we can call Applied Narratology.
The Saviors
Once upon a time, there was a very ugly monster with the body of a scarecrow who always wore clogs and smelled of pork liver and manure. His name was Cloggers. Cloggers’ best friend, who always traveled with him, was named Fatso. He also smelled very badly.
Criminal Networks
The term The Portuguese Mob may sound cliché and even humorous, but as I learned the hard way in 2014, it is one of the most powerful parallel societies in Paris due to, among other things, its size, job placements, and reach into other parallel societies. This network can, among other things, locate anyone within hours in a city of millions...
French Civil Lawsuits
When a court in France orders someone to pay you money, it stops there. The court does not help you retrieve the money. When you win and someone has to pay you a sum of money, the second battle begins. For this part, you need the Commissaire de justice, and they charge by the hour.
When Men Become Monsters
All it takes to turn ordinary middle-class people into monsters is a madman on a mission with the skills, the means, and the network to get into people’s heads and fool the authorities into believing his victims are criminal subhumans without rights.
Are Criminal Children Victims?
Children cannot choose the parents they are born to. They have no control over the criminal choices their parents make. They have very little, if any, say in the mind-numbing, libelous brainwashing their parents might make them consume and accept.
The Danish Judicial System
We all know the theory: the police force is there to investigate crime and arrest criminals so the rest of us can feel safe and, if we have been victimized, vindicated. Great theory, too bad it has little to do with reality if you are just a random victim of random, not very interesting crimes that won’t skyrocket a career.
Danish Police Force Under Scrutiny
For months, a parliamentary oversight committee has looked into how the Danish police works. A few days ago, they presented the report at a press conference. The results were so disturbing that the committee issued the second-harshest critique possible against the Danish police force out of five.