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By: Via Negativa » Blog Archive » September wrap-up

Via Negativa » Blog Archive » September wrap-up — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:17:21 +0000

[...] In a sign of growing senility, I had two posts with the same title less than ten days apart, Making Sense and Making Sense, both pimping for the new qarrtsiluni theme, Making Sense (for which submissions remain open until October 15, by the way). I also had two different posts whose titles ripped off Rambo: First Blood, which is especially strange since I’ve never actually seen the movie. [...]

By: pilgrim

pilgrim — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:14:17 +0000

I’ve been single for so long, I like to go out in the rain just for the contact.

I hear that.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:20:21 +0000

That’s cool. I think one or two other people might be using it, too. I’ve been pretty conservative about adding new blogs to it – it seems just barely manageable in length now.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:54:08 +0000

Dave, I want to report to you that I am enjoying your blog harvest in its very accessible format at Smorgasblog via Dave (fun name!) on Google reader, to which I have subscribed aping your example.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:43:45 +0000

marly – You’re right, that would make a good opener for a short story, wouldn’t it?

robin andrea – Thanks for sharing that. I agree with Peter.

David – Yup, wrens are cute, no doubt about it.

By: David Harmon

David Harmon — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:49:14 +0000

Found in one of my local free papers, a cute birdies story.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:44:51 +0000

Robin, that’s wonderful!

By: robin andrea

robin andrea — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:30:10 +0000

I found a caterpillar yesterday. I was walking home from the mailbox and it was walking across the road. I picked it up on one of the envelopes I had just retrieved, brought it up close and took a good long at it. The caterpillar had fake eyes. They were bright yellow with deep blue centers. They seemed to have more depth than most sensing eyes. I was captivated by them, so I took the caterpillar home to photograph it. I talked to it the whole way and it listened with invisible ears.

By: marlyat2

marlyat2 — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:55:12 +0000

I like the fish best.

I’d write a story beginning with those eyes….

But I like it very well “in small.”

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:27:31 +0000

Thanks, you guys. I’m glad you liked this post, because it was the fruit of a day’s procrastination and a bottle of strong homebrew. I usually write sober and first thing in the morning, but i guess it’s good to vary one’s patterns once in a while. With that first vignette, I was simply too tired to figure out how to elaborate on the benediction vs. malediction thing that Brett mentions, so I let it remain implicit. So the formula here is laziness + tiredness + beer = brief mind-farts.