Showing posts with label Self Improvement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Self Improvement. Show all posts

Friday, March 17, 2023

HOH Magazine: February/March 2023 Issue

HOH Magazine cover, featuring David not photoshopped onto Oprah’s body for a change — standing in front of a brick wall mural that says LOVE, wearing red pants and a plain caramel-colored sweater, posing with his hands out and down by his sides, semi-crouching a little. The first headline reads “Self-Esteem Engine: Due For Inspection!” Subtitle: “I need some regulation, just like all those train companies that keep derailing & causing ecological disasters Jesus Christ” Then there is a blue point-covered oval shaped seal that reads “Multiple Breakthroughs Inside!!” And a third area of text that reads: “Blue Buddies! David reprints his choice Letterboxd thoughts on the AVATAR movies! Page 2” which is just a little joke, the entire blog is on one page, technically.

First of all, I haven't shaved my beard yet. I am not exactly sure why. I know I said I would. It seems I have grown to like it this way. There's a significant charm to it now, and I know if I shave it off I won't get that back. Not for, you know, another thousand days. I'm not sure when I graduated from tolerance to affection, but I'm letting myself luxuriate in the big spindly bush before I take control of it. Which is itself a form of control.

Anyway, I wanted to jot down some personal thoughts, and hey that's what a blog is for. Why not just cut out the middle-man and publish it? This is supposed to be fun, not work. Let's see if I still vibe with that approach by the time I'm finished writing this, hah!

Saturday, September 24, 2022

HOH Magazine: Quarantine Day 900 Edition

The cover of this HOH Magazine edition is a selfie of David Hoh on the 900th day of his personal track of quarantine/pandemic/2020 in a gilded frame. What are we doing, people???? Big font reads “(900) Days of BUMMER” on the bottom of the image, above the frame border. Smaller text in the upper-right corner reads “A check-in issue about my current issues”

We're halfway there, folks! September 2nd, 2022, was the 900th day since I locked down for 6-8 weeks (42-56 days) and began counting the squares on the calendar (900 days.)

I've been on a sort of HOH Magazine haitus. I began, stalled, re-began, stalled, and re-began an issue of HOH Magazine for March of 2021, listing the names of the various humans whose lives were directly, literally threatened by a literal angry mob, and still decided to vote to not convict the man responsible for telling the angry mob where to go to find these very same people and inflict treasonous violence against them. That's weird!