Sometimes you can spend an entire morning staring blankly at a page, unable for force out even the most bare of syllables. Try as you might, you cannot find the will to write. Sometimes you feel like quitting, other times you do quit. Mostly though, you sit and stare. The blank page is hateful, cruel, and not a very nice thing. It needs to be filled with language to temper its evil. So how does one start when the universe contrives to stifle your creativity? Start with a word, on a particularly bad d that word may be bland an uninspiring, but it’s a start none the less and a word almost invariably leads to another word.
“The”
The what?
“The… butts.”
Really? This may have potential! What about these butts?
“The butts… smell?”
Of course! How could I have not realized! Go on, tell me more!
“The butts smell, so… I… cleaned them…”
Yes, yes, continue!
“The ashtray was filthy, I knew that my roommates were starting to get annoyed, and since I was the only smoker in the house it was my responsibility to take care of my ashy mess. I know this, I was also aware just how much more they would tolerate before their passive aggression would turn to outright hostility. I’m a good judge of character I must say. If I didn’t take care of this today, I might find myself looking for a new home tomorrow. Did I wan’t to find a new home?”
You see how one question leads to another, and all questions derive answers that invoke more questions, at least I assume this to be the case…
Naturally, a person probably wouldn’t choose house hunting over a clean ashtray… because even a new place would need to be cleaned on occasion.
It seems as though the people of Calgary have lost their sense of personal space. At least, when it comes to public transit. There should be weight sensors in all of the trains that prevent the train from moving if there is too much weight in any one car. Then they should set the maximum …
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Whelmed. I like that word but I find it strange that the common Internet definitions of it often include “Overwhelmed” as a definition. That is questionable to me. In fact, I am underwhelmed with any positive emotions by that lazy definition. See how that works?
If I am underwhelmed, then I have not yet reached a state …
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I don’t get it. Sweaters are supposed to keep you warm, while vests lack sleeves in order to be cooler (so I assume). Why the heck would I want a warm chest while my arms freeze. If anything, I’d say that my trunk can take care of itself; give me an inverse vest! That would …
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So I had my birthday dinner with Mom, Dad, and Lindsay last night. It was pretty awesome! I am now the proud owner of a new iPod touch (thanks mom and dad!). That’s actully where i’m writing this post from… Cool eh?
Actually it’s kind of a pain so I’m going to stop now ;)
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November 23, 2009 – 4:00 pm
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Well, that wouldn’t be a very good idea now would it. I’m great at making excuses, I could invent one right now. You know what for… But I won’t I’ll just pretend that nothing happend and get on with this thing.
I’m moving tomorrow. It’s the right time to do it for me. As much as I’m …
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I’ll probably write a bit more tomorrow. Today I received a gentle reminder that I like to do this. So this is what I’ll do.
Lindsay and I went for a walk today, it was nice. Now that my gout has subsided to negligible levels I can walk without any serious pain. I’ve started walking to work. …
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I’m adding a couple of new entries to the food section of my Blogroll.Insanewiches, and This is Why You’re Fat.
The first is a blog featuring interesting and amazing sandwiches. Everything from a Diet Debacle Sandwich to andEast Meets Westdog. Truly an ingenious website!
Then we have our other fascinating foodie foundry. The apparent premise behind “This …
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Lindsay has been doing a lot of reading lately about plagiarism. It’s a serious concern for artists I would imagine. Perhaps my views on software piracy relate here, people justify software theft by saying that it’s just 1’s and 0’s on the Internet. Well a book is just ink stains on paper, should I be …
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And it’s full of hooey!
I caught an advertisement on the Food Network on my lunch break today. It was pretty short and sweet. A 30-something man ponders aloud about the effectiveness of prayer. He breifly mentions that prayers for “big” things seem to not be answered. Overall it stays pretty vague.
At the end of the spot …
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