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Wanted to do that Q&A show sometime last weekend, at least produce something to excuse my furthurrr consumption of resources,

but at a point on Friday night that I will never be able to ascertain, I took two medications (not for fun or anything, as directed), & they set off a 12-hour schizophrenic break, and to the extent that there's a typology of schizophrenic breaks, this was the kind I live in fear of getting trapped inside forever, I mean I do not know who I was or what I was doing or what anything meant or what meaning was, I would try to type something and complete psychotic nonsense would start dripping from the ends of my fingers, I was just erased from reality

I feel shitty that everything keeps getting held back over & goddamn over, here and elsewhere, but it's been a cursed fucking 4 or 5 weeks

I hope I can do the Q&A Thursday and, as ever, more importantly, Rulin and Amjad and Sammar

M

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r b

Take it easy, dude. No pressure.

Salt.

I hope I speak for all of your supporters when I say: Take all the time you need and I hope you're feeling better soon. We'll be happy for your insights whenever you feel well enough to share them. 🖤

Susan Beal

Please do not pile guilt upon your exhausted head. You are not required to be ‘productive,’ friend 🖤

Samantha Geovjian Clarke

I'm so sorry you went through that, Michael. Please never forget that you are not a thing that consumes resources and is expected to give sufficient output in exchange - your value is inherent, as a human being generally, and as the very singular and irreplaceable human being only you are. I really mean that, and I suspect a lot of your listeners will back me up too. <3 Take care of yourself

K

Rest up and take good care of yourself, M. You've had an absolutely brutal time of it lately by no fault of your own and you're holding up impossibly well, all things considered. ❤️❤️❤️ Looking forward to the next show whenever it happens.

Arthur Bray-Simons

Don't stress dude, we're in this for the long haul :)

Waffle Poet

I’ve been a practitioner of schizoid personality disorder for over two decades now, and I’m one of the lucky few among the SzPD cadre issued with a panoply of paranoid delusions. The good doctors spent a well over decade throwing every medication that graced the back of the clipboard they were holding at the time at me. I eventually said fuck the good doctors, who were trying to kill me, and went to the good chemist. Permanent state of disassociation? At least when I was on DXM, ketamine or PCP I *knew* I was dissociating. Right? Then all the other drugs come, fall off parent’s the insurance, replace eating Adderall with eating meth, and find across years and decades how many times life will grant you second and third chances if you take them. I’m trying to commiserate with you enough to tell you, with love, to shut the fuck up about episodes being late, posts being late. Stop fucking apologizing to a community that gets you’re only more or less fucked up than the rest of us. The world is not on your shoulders, and it’s easy to turn our earnestness, empathy and love for the oppressed (or just our community) into a comforting excuse to excoriate ourselves for not being enough, or certainly not “doing” enough. To rend the shirt, or rather rend the psyche as seems common for you in a manner I can at the very least sympathize with. Your community is here for you. I’m sure I speak for most of us when I say we’re not paying $5 a month or whatever for Mr. Judge to squeeze out slop on the dot because something is supposed to be uploaded. We’re here because your brain has been fucked in such a way as to grant you a truly unique perspective on the world. So get healthy, be healthy, work on staying healthy, and stop dragging yourself. Sure as shit not on *our* account. One love, Mr. Judge.

Jack McCarty

Love you Mike. Rest up and feel better. We’ll be here.

Divad Kong

Dude, take a break. Idk if you have things that do you good, for me a nice cottage in the mountains or seaside or forest and walking about does me good.

Matthew Duhamel

I'm on the patreon tier where I get to tell you to stop trying to prove yourself and you go take care of yourself. Your worth doesn't come from what you produce.

John Waaben

Michael, you are the man. You inspire us all to be smarter and better people. We got a huge backlog of episodes too. Rest up champ.

Jill McCarthy

Mind yourself Michael & try not to put pressure on yourself, we can wait xx

Commissar Mindset

Head case member of the chosen people here (diasporic, not down with the zionist position, etc). Apologies if this is in any way presumptuous or in some other way commits a faux pas, but I wanted to say a couple things. First, I hope this doesn't ever recur for you or else at least not for a long time, sounds god-awful. No congruent experience of it but you've my sympathies. Second - just as game recognizes game, my jewish guilt makes me wonder if your post revealed a touch of the catholic sort around this, in part if not in whole. I don't claim to get that from living it but my own abrahamic weirdness prompts me to say I think we're all ok being patient. If there's stuff we can do to ease the reflexive lousy feels around things slowing you down I'd be glad to hear it. Thanks for saying something. Please takes the time you need for your health. We know you can deliver even when you're wrecked or drunk or on junk, but you've demonsrated it goes better for all involved when you get a chance to be vaguely close to whatever has taken the place of 'okay' in the context of these strange lives we lead, and the output's better too. When you feel recovered from what sounds like a trip fit for a Pynchon novel that makes one deeply crave being tethered down to even this disappointing and horrid consensus reality, we'll in all likelihood be here. Not going anywhere myself. Too grateful to ya for making things more bearable by articulating what I couldn't that my scattershot observations supported in an irksomely incomplete way. Life in my adoptive country got far easier to navigate because of your work, and at no point before or since has there been a need for a corkboard and red thread but a lot of bafflement resolved into degrees of clarity - even if it's only clarity regarding obfuscation as that relieves efforts to peel it all back by oneself. For that, my disabled ass will give you a few dollars whenever I get them, and definitely tell you to take all the time you need. I know and like what you produce when you do so, and usually it is illuminating and useful. Can't say that about too much anymore.

Caleb Neubert

Michael, hope you are well. Sorry to hear things aren't going so well for you. I hope you take the time to take care of yourself and get yourself right in whatever capacity you require. I appreciate you and all that you've done more than I could put into words.

Nathan

We all appreciate you immensely. There’s no shame in taking some time to rest and recover. And there’s really no need for apologies. We’ll still be here.

Rock Wallie

Take your time no rush do what you need to do

Maciek

I’m a dummy who doesn’t know much but soundsn like you need an afternoon of the fun and escaping type of drugs, ideally with a close friend or two to help the good vibes. Hope you getter better soon!

NYCM&AHole

No stress. In the meantime I’ll contemplate the string gauges to tune down to drop A# so I can play In Flames songs

Gooch Immane

Be good to yrself bro, nobody can tranceive all that you do without getting a little crispy, anyways we all love you

GP

Be safe out there man. We'll be here when you come good 🖤

Enk

Its absolutely the worst and I'm saying this from personal experience, especially of late, to have your shit so jacked you can't do anything but deal w the immediate misery when there's a million better and more important things to do. You're in my thoughts and we're with you.

Tommy Donuts

Just another grateful stranger here, chiming in to add Voice to Chorus—much love, gratitude, and the very bestest healthwise wishes from further up the smoke-choked Middle-West.

Peter Arsenault

Take care of yourself first. The $5 per month isn't for a product. It's also not charity. You can't rush your wholly original program. One thing I love about DC is that it's never "topical". I don't need to consume it by a particular sell-by date. And re-listening to the archives reveals new meanings, as time passes. Anyway, thanks as always, Mike. I WOULD absolutely pay for a music show, as well.

Headbuttbuffet

Love ya MSJ take all the time you need

No

Get better MSJ. World ain’t great but we will always wait. Hope you can get the rest you need

Russell Child

Much love and gratitude to you for yr excellent work. Take all the time you need.