Me Archive - The Strategic Retreat

If You Don’t Know How To Pronounce A Word, Say It Loud!

Posted on: December 1st, 2010 by Zervas

My thinking about this website has been very uptight. Instead of a full cathartic release I was hung up on the final product and the reaction of others. That’s not what this site is about. Never was, never will be. I haven’t been actively posting in 2 years and yet I was concerned. Fuck that.

My desire to say what I wanted to say conflicted with my want to play it safe and get positive feedback. This resulted in no output rather than deciding to take things one way or the other.

This situation quite reminded me… Read the rest

2010; Least Self Referencing Decade of The Century

Posted on: January 1st, 2010 by Zervas

Welcome to the 2010s, the teens or whatever the hell we’re calling this collection of ten years. And that’s the whole thing, it’s not about what we call it; it’s that we won’t call it and we won’t talk about it. We couldn’t shut up about the me-me 80s or the go-go 90s. “Well it is the 90s”, “with the coming of a new millennium”, “turn of the century” and all that.

Who talked about the aughts? Nobody, that’s who. We didn’t even call those years the aughts. We may start doing so though. It’s easier to refer… Read the rest