My general preference is to avoid self-promotion. However, I am proud of what I’ve accomplished so far with this website. So, I wanted to pass along two quick suggestions to you, our faithful readers.
First, you can follow the Axis of Ego on Twitter (link). Recent jewels include “Protip: When selecting a “safe word,” do NOT choose the word “harder.” I only have about 115 followers, so you’ll be getting in on the ground floor of something prettttyyyy special.
But I understand – a Twitter follow can be a big step in a social media relationship. Allowing all my nonsense wisdom to show up in your feed could be seen by some as a big commitment. If you yourself already follow several hundred accounts, and you’ve read this far, there’s probably no good reason not to follow.
Having said that, I understand that Twittering has become semi-sacred, especially to you youngsters. That’s why I have an even more non-committal option for you! You can “like” the Axis of Ego on Facebook (link)!
I’ll level with you: As of this writing, only 24 people “like” this website on Facebook. That’s absurdly low. I mean, pages for despicable things like NAMBLA and New Coke have about ten times that! Each!!!
Don’t want to get updates? No problem! Just “hide” us in your news feed (I mean – don’t do that, but the point is that you can, in theory).
We can do better, people – but only with your help.
Thank you, and God bless America.
Television is more than a wondrous 
The final three discs of the Star Wars blu-ray set consist entirely of extras. Disc seven includes extras from Episodes I-III, disc eight covers the original trilogy, and disc nine has “documentaries and spoofs” spanning the entire series.
With the finale of the fourth season of the amazing Breaking Bad now history, Chicago improviser and comedy actor 
Our previously-vague, sometimes-confusing 
Season four of 
from a few years ago. I talked about the commentary setup last time, but, briefly: You get two per movie. One is a more traditional track that features George Lucas and a few others who were instrumental in the original trilogy. The other is essentially a collection of interview snippets placed in a somewhat context-specific way throughout the movie, rather than a recording of someone who was actually watching the movie at the time.
The Axis of Ego 
How Things Used to Work
My psychology teacher used to use the following example to illustrate the phenomenon of habituation: If you’re sitting in a classroom on a hot day with the window air conditioning unit running, you don’t “hear” the low, constant hum of the AC unless something redirects your conscious mind to it (in this case, the teacher saying “air conditioning”). The constancy of the noise dulls your sensory response to it to the point that the noise is ignored. He also used a similar example about not consciously feeling your own underwear until someone says the word “underwear.” You get the point.
I think we’ve reached that level of desensitization with much of the technology that’s now melded to all aspects of our lives. That hit home in concrete terms when I remembered a personal story that hadn’t crossed my mind in many years. It was the equivalent of someone saying “air conditioning.”
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