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Twitter went down on Thursday night and my first instinct was to get on Twitter and ask people on Twitter what they were doing to do, now that Twitter was down. It’s become part of the atmosphere. It’s a utility, like electricity and water.
And so ends a very unusual week. By that I [...]
Sick. Worst is over. Worst came at 3:17 AM, when I woke from a strange dream, covered in the sheen of hallucinatory fever sweat, got out of bed, was struck by the chilly ambient temp of the room, went to get a glass of water, teeth chattering and limbs shaking, figuring: okay, well, dead soon. [...]
Hello. I have a cold. This is the bad day where you feel lousy and don’t do anything. Tomorrow will also be that day. Yes, I am gargling with Listerine, taking lots of vitamins and zinc, drinking orange juice, and avoiding over-the-counter medication entirely except for the nasal spray, which I use sparingly so I [...]
The heat is on. If you’re wondering where, specifically: it’s on the street. Today was the most humid day in Minneapolis history, and yes, that stretches back millions of years, before this city even existed. Our records are that good. (Fossilized trilobite sweat, if you’re wondering.) More of the same Tuesday, and more due Wednesday. [...]
I’ve written enough today. At least 957 words of the batch were acceptable. The rest: piddle. No, I take that back; there were 47 words in the novel revision I liked, even if they were distributed among 670. Decided on a stylistic shift today, and doesn’t that just sound like the life of an Artist? [...]
Hit the halfway point on the novel tonight. The characters left the office to meet a source in the police department, and I had no idea where they were going until they turned into the Minnesotan Hotel, and I had no idea the narrator’s father was a bricklayer until the narrator mentioned that his father [...]
Well, here’s a surprise: a cool, overcast day! (sob) You can see it all settle in the faces of the citizens: they’ve written the summer off.
At least it’s not so hot that the dog suffers, but he’s taking his evening walks very slowly these days. Very slowly. The other day he just headed [...]
It was Ice Cream Day at the school where Gnat took classes this week. Web design and Pokemon. As for Web Design, they learned iWeb. Sigh. Not exactly a platform with a future. In Pokemon class, if you can call that, they had the FINAL BATTLE today, and while she was knocked out in the [...]
Permanence for Impermanent Things
On June 3, 2011 · 71 Comments · In Pop Culture, Retro Delights, The Seventies, The Thirties, The Writing Life
Yes: the Permanent Collection of Impermanent Art starts today.
Every so often I dip into 70s radio just to revisit the full horror. Oh, there’s some good stuff. And depending on the mood, you can reevaluate something you once held in Olympian contempt. “Claire,” for example, by Gilbert O’Sullivan. Never mind that his voice [...]
Daughter comes home from school in the usual mood, with a smile and offhand assurances that school was fine and everything’s fine and so on and so forth, but: for moment I catch her staring into the Void, a shadow on her features, and it’s time for the parental probe: what’s the matter? Oh nothing. [...]
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