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    <title>The happy place</title>
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    <description>This here is the space into which I put some of the thoughts which have been gathering inside my head. Mostly mundane stuff as I am not *that* original</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The happy place</title>
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      <title>About this dead mouse I found a few days afo</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[I found a dead mouse in a mouse trap a few days ago, the poor fella was stuck with her little mouse hand in the ”guillotine”, to die incorrectly of pain and dehydration, rather than swiftly—which paints in my mind that scene from the Green Mile… You know that one with the electric chair?&#xA;&#xA;Except there was no malice with the trap, just indifference.&#xA;&#xA;Coincidentally, there was a mouse in that book too, or maybe a rat.&#xA;&#xA;Anyway&#xA;&#xA;Her mouse hand looked just like that of a human, except tiny&#xA;&#xA;Grabbing for the cheese&#xA;&#xA;it’s the type of tragedy which happens everywhere every day but nobody writes about that (generally)&#xA;&#xA; there’s no eulogy&#xA;&#xA;Death is everywhere, like Fly on a windscreen song by Depeche Mode&#xA;&#xA;Indeed&#xA;&#xA;Life is frail and precious ]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I found a dead mouse in a mouse trap a few days ago, the poor fella was stuck with her little mouse hand in the ”guillotine”, to die incorrectly of pain and dehydration, rather than swiftly—which paints in my mind that scene from the Green Mile… You know that one with the electric chair?</p>

<p>Except there was no malice with the trap, just indifference.</p>

<p>Coincidentally, there was a mouse in that book too, or maybe a rat.</p>

<p>Anyway</p>

<p>Her mouse hand looked just like that of a human, except tiny</p>

<p>Grabbing for the cheese</p>

<p>it’s the type of tragedy which happens everywhere every day but nobody writes about that (generally)</p>

<p> there’s no eulogy</p>

<p>Death is everywhere, like Fly on a windscreen song by Depeche Mode</p>

<p>Indeed</p>

<p>Life is frail and precious</p>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>On time (with some interesting anecdotes )</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[🙋‍♂️&#xA;&#xA;I’ve been fixing some tickets to go see Placebo for their 30 yrs anniversary this fall/autumn, isn’t it fun how time flies like that?&#xA;&#xA;Except when waiting for the microwave to finish these 2.5 minutes are very long&#xA;&#xA;Or one night in my youth, I was having been drunk and I was with a friend and I slept in her little brother‘s room, right?&#xA;&#xA;But problem was I woke up when the alcohol was out of my system, like at 03:00 and then I just lay there on the bed, looking at the gaming console, they had this goldeneye game, is it for the x-box? Doesn’t matter&#xA;&#xA;I just lay there waiting for the others to wake up, because it wasn’t that known, the place… her parents were in there somewhere in some room, no clue which one, and I didn’t want to wake anyone, not wanting to bother anyone so I lay there waiting until the others were up, but they‘d been drinking too and it wasn’t until around 10.00 I started hearing some sounds and then I went down they had cereal, I’m pretty sure we had cereal&#xA;&#xA;And that her mother liked me,&#xA;&#xA;And that was something about me which made me seem lost like I was clueless or something, like a puppy or even a child? (Innocence?)&#xA;&#xA;Anyway, That night I remember as having been incredibly long some reason felt incredibly slow, like incredibly slow&#xA;&#xA;But&#xA;&#xA;I had my friend whose jaw got broken because he encountered a football/(soccer) hooligan who just punched him for wearing the wrong colours.&#xA;&#xA;And he was drunk, so he had to lay at the hospital for a very long time before they could sedate him, he just lay there with increasing pain also just letting time pass&#xA;&#xA;And that was on new years eve. What a way to spend New Year’s Eve&#xA;&#xA;They finally had some sort of metal to fix his jaw so he had to go for a very long time drinking soup with a straw, cause he couldn’t open his jaw or speak much&#xA;&#xA;Goulash soup except he had to put it in the blender first, do you know?&#xA;&#xA;Well anyway this all feels like it’s yesterday&#xA;&#xA;An I am eager to see this Placebo of course, with some good friends I collected throughout these years]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>🙋‍♂️</p>

<p>I’ve been fixing some tickets to go see Placebo for their 30 yrs anniversary this fall/autumn, isn’t it fun how time flies like that?</p>

<p>Except when waiting for the microwave to finish these 2.5 minutes are very long</p>

<p>Or one night in my youth, I was having been drunk and I was with a friend and I slept in her little brother‘s room, right?</p>

<p>But problem was I woke up when the alcohol was out of my system, like at 03:00 and then I just lay there on the bed, looking at the gaming console, they had this goldeneye game, is it for the x-box? Doesn’t matter</p>

<p>I just lay there waiting for the others to wake up, because it wasn’t that known, the place… her parents were in there somewhere in some room, no clue which one, and I didn’t want to wake anyone, <strong>not wanting to bother anyone</strong> so I lay there waiting until the others were up, but they‘d been drinking too and it wasn’t until around 10.00 I started hearing some sounds and then I went down they had cereal, I’m pretty sure we had cereal</p>

<p>And that her mother liked me,</p>

<p>And that was something about me which made me seem lost like I was clueless or something, like a puppy or even a child? (Innocence?)</p>

<p>Anyway, That night I remember as having been incredibly long some reason felt incredibly slow, like incredibly slow</p>

<p>But</p>

<p>I had my friend whose jaw got broken because he encountered a football/(soccer) hooligan who just punched him for wearing the wrong colours.</p>

<p>And he was drunk, so he had to lay at the hospital for a very long time before they could sedate him, he just lay there with increasing pain also just letting time pass</p>

<p>And that was on new years eve. What a way to spend New Year’s Eve</p>

<p>They finally had some sort of metal to fix his jaw so he had to go for a very long time drinking soup with a straw, cause he couldn’t open his jaw or speak much</p>

<p>Goulash soup except he had to put it in the blender first, do you know?</p>

<p>Well anyway this all feels like it’s yesterday</p>

<p>An I am eager to see this Placebo of course, with some good friends I collected throughout these years</p>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A follow up post</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[ moon looking like it’s missing 12%, like they folded a dog’s ear on it or something&#xA;&#xA;And I’m watching like I said Tulsa king on my mobile phone, we’ve not put the TV in yet, &#xA;&#xA;And when I see my face reflected on the screen, when it’s black, I just see my own smile&#xA;&#xA;A big smile on my face, with the teeth in charmfull disarray&#xA;&#xA;I’m smiling like an idiot, but in reality I’m a popcorn&#xA;&#xA;Like I wrote yesterday]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> moon looking like it’s missing 12%, like they folded a dog’s ear on it or something</p>

<p>And I’m watching like I said Tulsa king on my mobile phone, we’ve not put the TV in yet,</p>

<p>And when I see my face reflected on the screen, when it’s black, I just see my own smile</p>

<p>A big smile on my face, with the teeth in charmfull disarray</p>

<p>I’m smiling like an idiot, but in reality I’m a popcorn</p>

<p>Like I wrote yesterday</p>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A personal breakthrough </title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[I have two things on my mind&#xA;&#xA;(This will be my best post yet)&#xA;&#xA;1&#xA;&#xA;I am now after a painfully long time in the microwave transformed into a popcorn.&#xA;&#xA;There’s no way on this earth to unpop a popcorn&#xA;&#xA;This new me isn’t just a hard shell but inside out&#xA;&#xA;Soft&#xA;&#xA;Of course it hurt, but look at me now&#xA;&#xA;I am weightless&#xA;&#xA;This is my final form of course&#xA;&#xA;poetry&#xA;&#xA;---&#xA;&#xA;2&#xA;&#xA;I’m watching Tulsa king. I see with great interest Stallone playing this mafioso guy out of prison, just murdering anyone who he finds disrespectful, just doing things his way, even though he is a prisoner of his own principles, is somewhat satisfying: seeing him solve most of his problems with violence like that.&#xA;&#xA;Yes👍 🤌&#xA;&#xA;---]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have two things on my mind</p>

<p>(This will be my best post yet)</p>

<p><strong>1</strong></p>

<p>I am now after a painfully long time in the microwave transformed into a popcorn.</p>

<p>There’s no way on this earth to unpop a popcorn</p>

<p>This new me isn’t just a hard shell but inside out</p>

<p>Soft</p>

<p>Of course it hurt, but look at me now</p>

<p>I am weightless</p>

<p>This is my final form of course</p>

<p><a href="https://blegh.hopeisaprison.eu/tag:poetry" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">poetry</span></a></p>

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<p>2</p>

<p>I’m watching Tulsa king. I see with great interest Stallone playing this mafioso guy out of prison, just murdering anyone who he finds disrespectful, just doing things his way, even though he is a prisoner of his own principles, is somewhat satisfying: seeing him solve most of his problems with violence like that.</p>

<p>Yes👍 🤌</p>

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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A memory flash triggered by the prospect of a bleak future </title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[I’m eagerly anticipating this exciting future, like we are walking into Mad Max, the one with Tina Turner, you know?&#xA;&#xA;I had a taste of this when I was a young terminal worker, riding the pallet truck, a special forklift you stand up in, with extra long forklift forks, me with a plastic mug of hot coffee, rim clenched between my teeth, driving on towards the kiosk to buy cigarettes. A vast concrete space, a decommissioned old machine covered in gray dust on my right hand side, Do you know this dust? It’s not unlike how I picture the gray ashes in ”The Road.&#xA;&#xA;And there I felt for a moment that I was the only one alive, or at least that the population was as decimated as in this terminal building&#xA;&#xA;And I felt like it was the end of the world, but in a good way; I would drink my coffee and smoke my cigarette in a glass box — like they have also in airports — without a care in the world. Maybe flip a magazine or simply just listen to something from my portable CD player.&#xA;&#xA;I was happy then.]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m eagerly anticipating this exciting future, like we are walking into Mad Max, the one with Tina Turner, you know?</p>

<p>I had a taste of this when I was a young terminal worker, riding the pallet truck, a special forklift you stand up in, with extra long forklift forks, me with a plastic mug of hot coffee, rim clenched between my teeth, driving on towards the kiosk to buy cigarettes. A vast concrete space, a decommissioned old machine covered in gray dust on my right hand side, Do you know this dust? It’s not unlike how I picture the gray ashes in ”The Road.</p>

<p>And there I felt for a moment that I was the only one alive, or at least that the population was as decimated as in this terminal building</p>

<p>And I felt like it was the end of the world, but in a good way; I would drink my coffee and smoke my cigarette in a glass box — like they have also in airports — without a care in the world. Maybe flip a magazine or simply just listen to something from my portable CD player.</p>

<p>I was happy then.</p>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Yesterday I felt slow, my movements when running were slow almost lethargic,...</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Yesterday I felt slow, my movements when running were slow almost lethargic, and yet I gave it all I got&#xA;&#xA;Isn’t that interesting?&#xA;&#xA;Of course it felt unpleasant, I was running, but also being out there felt soothing.&#xA;&#xA;The gentle spring warmth felt good, the sun shone, there was green grass&#xA;&#xA;And birds&#xA;&#xA;Many birds&#xA;&#xA;And even though like I said, it was slow; like a brisk walk.&#xA;&#xA;But I gave it all I got.&#xA;&#xA;And the fog tallow in my head melted&#xA;&#xA;And the air felt fresh again to breathe&#xA;&#xA;And next time I might be faster&#xA;&#xA;Or not,&#xA;&#xA;It doesn’t really matter]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday I felt slow, my movements when running were slow almost lethargic, and yet I gave it all I got</p>

<p>Isn’t that interesting?</p>

<p>Of course it felt unpleasant, I was running, but also being out there felt soothing.</p>

<p>The gentle spring warmth felt good, the sun shone, there was green grass</p>

<p>And birds</p>

<p>Many birds</p>

<p>And even though like I said, it was slow; like a brisk walk.</p>

<p>But I gave it all I got.</p>

<p>And the fog tallow in my head melted</p>

<p>And the air felt fresh again to breathe</p>

<p>And next time I might be faster</p>

<p>Or not,</p>

<p>It doesn’t really matter</p>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>On baking soda adverts</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[I just got some advertisement. Apparently, I can get a discount on baking soda.&#xA;&#xA;On seeing this, I was stricken by a powerful sensation of pointlessness.&#xA;&#xA;It just came crashing in, like a wave&#xA;&#xA;But it went away (like a wave)&#xA;&#xA;And now again I’m feeling ”normal”]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just got some advertisement. Apparently, I can get a discount on baking soda.</p>

<p>On seeing this, I was stricken by a powerful sensation of pointlessness.</p>

<p>It just came crashing in, like a wave</p>

<p>But it went away (like a wave)</p>

<p>And now again I’m feeling ”normal”</p>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>On priorities</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Hello! I have been, with a mounting sense of frustration, come just a few hundred points short of S rating on  Umamusume: Pretty Derby. &#xA;&#xA;Again.&#xA;&#xA;My friend he asked me: how’s the writing going? The context I am writing what I believe to be a modern classic, and sometimes he helps me with the grammar, because he’s even better than I am with grammar.&#xA;&#xA;The thing is that I have been busy playing Umamusume: Pretty Derby, trying to get a full roster of S+ horse girls.&#xA;&#xA;But now I’m questioning whether that truly is a productive use of my time, or should I in reality finish my book instead?&#xA;&#xA;This is the question on my mind this Sunday: how to spend the precious seconds of a finite life span…]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello! I have been, with a mounting sense of frustration, come just a few hundred points short of S rating on  Umamusume: Pretty Derby.</p>

<p>Again.</p>

<p>My friend he asked me: how’s the writing going? The context I am writing what I believe to be a modern classic, and sometimes he helps me with the grammar, because he’s even better than I am with grammar.</p>

<p>The thing is that I have been busy playing Umamusume: Pretty Derby, trying to get a full roster of S+ horse girls.</p>

<p>But now I’m questioning whether that truly is a productive use of my time, or should I in reality finish my book instead?</p>

<p>This is the question on my mind this Sunday: how to spend the precious seconds of a finite life span…</p>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A philosophy text</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[ I listen now to Summoning, they have what I believe to be the best song track title I have ever seen: ”The Rotting Horse on the Deadly Ground”&#xA;&#xA;  Take a ride on, ride on, &#xA;  on your rotting horse &#xA;  on that deadly ground &#xA;  Take a ride, ride on, &#xA;  on your rotting horse &#xA;  with a pounding sound.&#xA;&#xA;Ok&#xA;&#xA;It’s not hope inspiring I think, but still very good. There’s a lesson in that: to hold on to hope, may set one up for disappointment or even a deluded state of mind. &#xA;&#xA;But still riding on because what else is there to do?]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> I listen now to Summoning, they have what I believe to be the best song track title I have ever seen: ”The Rotting Horse on the Deadly Ground”</p>

<blockquote><p>Take a ride on, ride on, 
on your rotting horse 
on that deadly ground 
Take a ride, ride on, 
on your rotting horse 
with a pounding sound.</p></blockquote>

<p>Ok</p>

<p>It’s not hope inspiring I think, but still very good. There’s a lesson in that: to hold on to hope, may set one up for disappointment or even a deluded state of mind.</p>

<p>But still riding on because what else is there to do?</p>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The balloon metaphor</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Hello&#xA;&#xA;On Monday I was feeling bad inside, and yet I was very socially adept, made quick comments and remembered to ask details how my co-workers’ lives were going, and so forth , (because they are my friends), and on my way to the bathroom I pictured myself as a shiny balloon of leather filled with broken glass&#xA;&#xA;And this amused me for some reason&#xA;&#xA;But why?]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello</p>

<p>On Monday I was feeling bad inside, and yet I was very socially adept, made quick comments and remembered to ask details how my co-workers’ lives were going, and so forth , (because they are my friends), and on my way to the bathroom I pictured myself as a shiny balloon of leather filled with broken glass</p>

<p>And this amused me for some reason</p>

<p>But why?</p>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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