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Thursday, August 07, 2008

  • The Day before Friday

    Happy Thursday, friends.

    What are your plans for the weekend?

    We're having a bunch of giggly little girls over on Saturday.   That should be fun.  Other than that, nothing.  It should render the mister and me tired for a week.

    I'm a bit bummed.  Got a rejection letter before I went to bed last night.  Shit.  Who the hell sends rejects at 1 AM? 

     

Monday, July 28, 2008

  • Silly little things

    that bug you?

    -I don't like that "S" is next do "D"--makes for ,um, interesting typos:  I'm assing it all up.   I love sucks, I had a little suckling once.   These are dimple examples.  I'll dent the later asap.

    -Asthma Is Dexy broached this subject once:  why is the addhole so close to the vagina?  

    -In the back of the book, the author's humongous picture that takes up the whole space just creeps me out.

    -Some academics sneer at Picaddo--so easy for them to sit there in their clean little ivory towers, with hands that have never touched a paintbrush to say shit, isn't it?  Fuck em.

    -Asian jokes that make fun of small eyes.  Yeah, dude, make a bid for an imagination on eBay.

    -Slow motions in movies.  Don't like them.  So manipulative.  Okay, I don't mind films that try to manipulate--I don't have to like all their devices.

    -Really catty women.  Same advice to the the dude above.   You that insecure?  Yeah, I heard you.  Is it because  your boyfriend/husband stared at me a little too long?  Men can sense that, you know, insecurity.  It's very unattractive.  We're all insecure but geez--must you to resort to cattiness to make yourself feel better?

    -Target ads.  Yeah, yeah, I get it, we should all be the same.

    -People with airtight minds.  Nothing gets in and out.  It must smell in there.  Air it out. Allow other ideas, apart from yours, in. 

    peace out trout.

    Happy Monday

     

     

Sunday, July 27, 2008

  • Happy Sunday, all...

    on the day before another workweek begins.  Do you have any special thing(s) you like to do on this day?  The funny thing is, the mister and I used to read the Sunday paper.  We don’t get the paper anymore because we get our news online.  This had me thinking, have there been simple pleasures that have been replaced by the internet?  Have you allowed the new medium to take the place of something you used to be able to touch? 

    This leads to something else, as most things do:  can you read fiction online or do you prefer to feel the book, the pages, carry it with you, hold it up closely, flip the pages, dog-ear them, wedge a bookmark between them, feel the book’s weight, look at the cover over and over again because you love the story?

    Or does it matter at all where and how you read fiction?   I am old-school about this, yet, ironically, I submit to online journals, have been reading short fiction (short stories and flash) online.  And I’m getting used to it. 

    How would you feel about reading a whole novel online? 

    I don’t think I can get used to that…

Sunday, July 06, 2008

  • A Call For Friends

    I would make a wonderful friend.  Even better than a pet because I have the ability to speak, though fortunately for you, in the words of the scarecrow in Wizard of Oz, I haven’t got a brain. 

    You’ll adore me because I’ve no opinions.  I promise, will never make you uncomfortable by disagreeing and, certainly, I have no passion beyond worshipping you. All I humbly require is for you to give me a list of what to say before I address the topic de jour.  Provide me a menu from which I may express sentiments.  I don’t have to understand any of it but I will say them, nonetheless.  For you see, I am just a fuckwit.  See?  Katonk!   Empty.  My head is a receptacle for air.   No imagination, either.  I am only slightly more intelligent than your belt, though perhaps less so than your sofa.  I can read but cannot comprehend. 

    After I mimic the desired response, please pat me on the head.  That is another thing I ask for with utmost humility--your approval.   That is all I will ever need and crave. 

    Spread the word that I am the ideal friend.  The more friends I am given the opportunity to agree with, the happier I will be.  This is my raison d’etre—to be available as a receptacle for your sensibilities and ideals.   You will, I guarantee, thrive from this friendship. My acquiescence can only make you grow as a human being.   Discourse?  Pff…who needs it?  Debates?  Hah.  Only for idiots who think they have an opinion.  Some people have even argued  that so-called healthy debates are conducive to intellectual growth.  Really?  Bullshit.  The other day I heard humor is one way to deal with controversy or conflict.   You woudn't have to worry about that because  I have no understanding of or use for humor.  But I will laugh if and when you want me to.  

    I will close by reiterating this:  If I don’t gain an inordinate amount of friends, there would be no reason for me to exist.     

    Take pity on me and be my friend.  I will never let you down.

     

    Your humble servant (and hopefully your soon-to-be friend),

    Sean.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

  • Hence, my Name

     

    I have printed it on drawings in school, scribbled it on tests in college, and signed it on checks to pay for rent.  It is obscured under loops on top of loops and rushed bold lines, my signature, my name, the only thing of permanence.  It was a name on roll-calls in school or camp, on entrance exams, and is at the bottom of my paintings. 

    I ask you who questions my choice to keep my father’s name over my husband’s—what do you gain from my loss?  Maybe another woman who bears your name?  I am aware of the irony in keeping one man’s name over another but it’s one I’ve known all my life, the name of a man I’ve loved all my life.  So, as you ask, stepping on my bridal dress, why I’m steadfast, it’s not against you but an allegiance to me.

    Whatever comes to light from this new bond, my name will be intact, though I may not be.

    Hence, I’ll not take your son’s name, your name.  What you gain I lose.  It shall be the name on my grave.  Hence, I must have kept it.  I will have kept it.

     

     

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