Don't Mess With Mister In-Between
There's another reason why I haven't been writing essays like my non-exsistent The State of the World: It's not what this blog is about.
Not that I'm saying that I know what this blog is about. It's just a filtered stream-of-consciousness, really. Whatever survives from the time it pops into my head to the time I sit down at the keyboard - and won't get me arrested - in it goes. Except - there's this filter thingy involved. It slaps little markers on my thoughts like whiny or pompous* and another post goes *pooft* into orange smoke before I can hit the Save button. One of the guidelines I set myself when I started trying to work out what I was blogging about was accentuate the positive. Or it would have been, except that I hate the word accentuate and refuse to use it. In fact, I never use a five-syllable (counts) four-syllable word where a one or two syllable word will do. In writing, I strive for utmost clarity and precision, so if anyone needs a copy of my Nuclear Engineering for Grade Schoolers, just give me a yell. And I don't set myself guidelines like that anyway; smarmy little bits of so-called wisdom set my teeth on edge.He's got hiiiigh hopes,If I wanted to write about all the bad and stupid things happening in the world, at least I'd have no shortage of material. But, I note, there already are people writing about the bad and the stupid, and doing a fine job at it too, and my efforts would disappear like the ripples from a pebble dropped in the ocean during a hurricane.** So I'll write about the good, whenever I can, and wherever I find it. And when I do find that I simply must rant about something, I will endeavour to make it at least amusing if not instructive.
He's got hiiiigh hopes,
He's got high apple pie in the
Sky hopes
So any time your gettin' low,You little bastard, that's the third one this week! Do you have any idea how much those things cost? Um... Y'know, I think it might just be time for bed. See you. * Or, all too often, stupid.
'Stead of lettin' go,
Just remember that ant -
Oops there goes another rubber tree plant
** I've tried this and know whereof I speak.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:43 AM
Comments
1
You forgot to mention the importance of posting pictures of cute kitties.....
Posted by: Susie at October 07, 2003 04:05 AM (0+cMc)
2
I thought we got paid by the syllable...
Posted by: Ted at October 07, 2003 12:46 PM (2sKfR)
3
And the kitties are REALLY cute. Mine are, too.
I think what you said really hits home. If we all wanted to, we could spend DAYS lamenting the state of the world (in our heads and on our blogs), but you miss so much of life if you do that.
hln
I think what you said really hits home. If we all wanted to, we could spend DAYS lamenting the state of the world (in our heads and on our blogs), but you miss so much of life if you do that.
hln
Posted by: hln at October 07, 2003 10:14 PM (g+waq)
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