Men Naked in the Woods:

Addiction begins through the thinking that an altered existence will make us more lovely to one another. 
Jekyll was now my city of refuge; let but Hyde peep out an instant and the hands of all men would be raised to take and slay him....Then we feel awkward and want to hide behind the mask of an altered life. The Animal within me licking the chops of memory The altered life can be created through a variety of vehicles (eg. Porn, Sex, Drugs and other addictions). Stevenson, Robert Louis The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde

What turns Dr Jekyll into Mr. Hyde is that he knows he is broken but attempts to find the answer to this brokenness in himself.   He does not turn from himself.   His only chance was to turn away from the attention of selfish needs and enterprises which propagated the horror in his life.   He wants to cope with the addiction but his cure is going deeper into the addiction itself.   His viewpoint is of the observable universe.  He thinks that he has scene an improvement with more of the venom.   So he takes more and more of the potion till his universe is flipped into hell itself.   This is similar to those addicted to prescribed medication, Oxycontin turns to heroine.  (E.g. The Chris Herren Story).  It does not take long to find yourself in a place of no exit. 

Sunday Dinner: Pepper Me Outmeal

Pepper me oatmeal, Matey!  Or kiss the gunner's daughter.*

I like to have my oatmeal in the morning with a bit of heat; Pirate Bite is the perfect partner to heat up my steel cut oatmeal.   

*A punishment: to be bent over one of the ship's guns and flogged.

Review: Merry Wives of Windsor BBC Production

This production of the Merry Wives of Windsor is one that will be greatly enjoyed with the reading of the Play.   I hope you find that the story can be taken from a feminist perspective as the women are cunning and in control of the action.   The play's origin is debated.  One version was that the Queen requested one more play with Falstaff in it.  She commanded that she wanted one more Play , "and to shew him in Love."  Falstaff being liking a drunk sailor, or a drunken donkey falls in love with everyone, if a chair had tits he would have fallen in love with the chair.  I believe that this play was an homage to the Italian Tradition of Comedia Del Arte.