Posted in Blather on January 19th, 2006 5 Comments »
When I put my iPod on Shuffle I get a very confused sense of myself. I may be very old and I may be very young. I may be bipolar but then maybe I’m not. I may have multiple personalities – that’s always a possibility. I may even be a world citizen given some of [...]
Posted in Blather on January 18th, 2006 1 Comment »
My iPod keeps tossing old Nick Lowe songs into the mix. One of them is Raging Eyes, a very short and very infectious tune from who knows when.
Here’s the thing, it’s one of those songs that gets in your head and won’t leave.
And here’s the other thing, in my head it isn’t Raging Eyes. It’s [...]
Posted in Blather on January 17th, 2006 1 Comment »
I don’t want to get into a poetry thing but, since The City was a bit grim I thought I should post something by Pablo Neruda, my favourite poet. And so I have. (Though it’s not the one I wanted to post - I can’t find where I put the book!)
Ode to Sadness
Sadness, scarabwith [...]
Posted in Blather on January 16th, 2006 4 Comments »
One of my favourite poems is The City, by Cavafy. I’ve always liked it because, to me, it’s about how the problems we bitch and moan about as external to us are not on the outside, but the inside. We are the city:
The City
You said, “I will go to another land, I will go to [...]
Posted in Blather on January 15th, 2006 1 Comment »
Sean, concerned Seahawk fan
I had to post this.
Sean, concerned Seahawks fan, was anxious in the first quarter. But he need not have worried.
They won.
If I may offer one comment, however … I absolutely hate the Seattle Seahawks home uniforms. You would think with the cloudy [...]
Posted in Blather on January 15th, 2006 5 Comments »
I got these questions from Spinning Girl and they seemed like good questions so I answered them. Like her, I added a bonus answer to each of the questions. Let’s see what I came up with:
Four jobs you have had in your life:
Radio copywriter/producer/voiceBookstore managerFreelance writerCorporate stooge (as in manager – whatever the hell that [...]
Posted in Blather on January 14th, 2006 No Comments »
So I went to Purgatorian and saw JJ’s Flashfiction thing and started writing. I’ve got it done, though I haven’t posted it yet. I will eventually.
But it’s one of those cascading things. I realized I was actually writing a story I’d had in my head for quite a long time. (That’s one of the reasons [...]
Posted in Blather on January 14th, 2006 3 Comments »
As I post and comment on the Internet it occurs to me that one of the great comforts of blogs is that no one I know in the flesh and blood world actually reads them. Even my cat is indifferent to them, though I’ve posted the odd rambling about her.
Why is this a comfort?
Because [...]
Posted in Blather on January 11th, 2006 7 Comments »
Hmm. They tell me I’m a classic martini …
You area sophisticated drinker, who knows that simple quality is over-rated.
You’re a knowledgeable drunk, but sometimes you’re a know-it-all when you’re blasted.
You should never: Drink and gossip. You tend to forget who’s standing right behind you!
Your ideal party: Has a real bartender. But no one mixes a [...]
Posted in Blather on January 10th, 2006 9 Comments »
Thinking back, I realize she came to me in the worst possible way. By that I mean, strictly speaking, you’re not to do this sort of thing. But years ago (maybe 20?) I came to Edmonton. My friend Helen thought it wasn’t right that I should be alone in a city with family a thousand [...]
