Some passing notions - a grab bag
February 21st, 2006 by Bill
Lacking the mental capacity to compose a coherent post, I offer the following cognitive belches (seven in all):
1) I’ve got so many things to do this week that I am not doing any of them. I seem to be like that. There’s a limit to what I can manage – go past it, I just sit and look at the pile. I do nothing as I sink further and further into an impotent gloom. (But eventually the stuff gets done – buggered if I know how though.)
2) If there were a service that cleaned litter boxes for you, I’d sign up.
3) My best posts are never written. At least not in the physical world. They are in my head, when I’m away from the computer doing something else. Last night, for example, I had a great post about my mother, women, death and memory – I swear, you would have laughed and wept and started a blog award thing just so you could nominate it. Alas, I was doing dishes and laundry and so it remained in my head. Instead, you got this lame ass post.
4) Why do all movie trailers look the same? Is there just one guy in Hollywood putting them together? And does he just have one style, one idea?
5) Why do eight out of ten people in creative writing classes want to write fantasy novels? And why do the other two want to write sentimental stories about grandpa’s shoes?
6) If hip-hop was called country, would people who like hip-hop suddenly hate it and country music fans suddenly like it? And if country music was called hip-hop, would hip-hop fans like it and hate hip-hop because it was now called country? In other words, do people actually listen first before deciding what they like or don’t? Or do they just look at the label and decide based on that? Phrased another way, it strikes me that a lot of people wouldn’t know good music if it walked up to them and shat on their shoes.
7) Finally … if baby-boomers really are baby-boomers, why haven’t they all blown up?
Well, that’s it for now. Clearly, there’s nothing of merit going on in my head today.
For the longest while, I really believed I was a country music fan. Then I actually started listening to some of the stuff my kids were listening too and found out that not all of it was that bad. Actually, I like some of it quite a bit now. I guess you can teach an old dog a few new tricks!
I m right there with you on #1. As for #2, my wife and I were talking about that very thing yesterday. We said that we could make a small fortune doing that for a living.
I could be the #1 man in the #2 business!
I’ve become the writer that always has a pen on her and writes ideas down on napkins in restaurants and bars.
The baby boomers haven’t reached the blowing up age yet.
Country and hip-hop are essentially the same thing. Really!
nothing of merit? please!
you are right on every bit. why oh why can’t i bring a pen with me when i am out and about? i lose a lot of great post ideas that way.
Even your lame-ass posts are good.