As noted yesterday, I moved to a new desk. The Last Desk. The temps in this part of the office are higher by ten degrees, I swear - and while I like warmth, this has that stifling weight that seems devilish and intentional, as if the imps with pitchforks will be along any moment now.
The desk is mostly set up. The decorative items have been pared by 2/3rds. I have a picture of Daughter from the High School grad announcement, looking delightful, and another of her somewhere in Brazil, pointing to Minnesota on a map as she shows someone where she’s from. Was from.
Just went through an editing of my latest piece for the paper, and had all the little asides and bits of “creative” writing excised. Boring copy is going out under my byline. No snap, no little asides to the reader, no "voice," which I am assured they want, as long as it's not too voicy, because that shades into columnist territory, and while we have about 37 columnists now, I'm not one of them.
Well, it’s the end of the month, in terms of the Bleat numbering system, so that means some detritus. Ad crap.
I saw a lot of AI movies last month, of woodland creatures who go to hospitals or schools AND THEN THIS HAPPENED. Something touching, no doubt. The bear bought its cub to the hospital. The eagle picked up a puppy. None of it is real.
Oh such joy and beauty on our internet
On another matter: One of the reasons I dislike YouTube: the miserable overhype with all the SEO terms.
Visually, it's junk, but that's just the start.
Harpo tragedy!"Few people know the disturbing reason" Harpo was silent.
Because the act worked best when he didn't.
The band was not DESTROYED but drifted apart.
I'm sure the Keaton thing is some nonsense about an early injury that gave him trouble later. When did his career end, exactly? Hmm?
Something else, not relevant to anything above, but something that also falls into the overhype category:
Dude I'm just making tacos
Switch gears: random Google Street View finds. In an Iowa town:
Computer, enhance: there's a lot going on here.
I vaguely agree, whatever the problem is.
While looking around for the Chinese restaurant featured in yesterday's Restaurant Postcard section, I saw a nondescript restaurant next door. Rewound time, and hello:
It bugged me. I recognized that sign, but couldn't place it - and then ding! Of course.
But it wasn't. Amarillo had one, but it didn't look like this, and the sign isn't really correct.
What was it?
There was a huge storm coming that was going to destroy the world instantly, like a nuclear blast. Sara and I went to a church to wait it out, and I kept trying to send a good picture to Natalie to say goodbye but I couldn't get a good shot. Eventually the storm passed and while we were still supposed to have the world ending. we went home, and the next day had a brunch for everybody to have some eggs and cake to await the end of the world. It still didn't happen, and doubting that it would I got in my car and drove somewhere. Went to a neighborhood that was like Dinkytown with funky stores, very narrow streets, and figured we were all right, and then I saw the strangest shuddering apparition in the sky ever ever seen. That never seen clouds like that. But it just rained, in the world did not end at all.
Prompt: shuddering apparation in the sky
Yikes.
LANCE MELONMUG continues:
Lookin' purdy casual around things Western, that Lance.
