Comments on: Behind the Trees

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:43:08 +0000

Waitress to customer: Would you like your life still or sparkling? Good one! I'm always a sucker for comparisons between art and food/drink. Of course, when the art also depicts food/drink it's not too much of a stretch.

By: Natalie d'Arbeloff

Natalie d'Arbeloff — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:02:33 +0000

Dave, I’m so honored to be included in your inspired haikus and I love “the life that can hardly stay still.”
Gives me a whole new outlook on still life.
There could also be new motifs, eg:
Is this still life?
Is this life still?
Waitress to customer: Would you like your life still or sparkling?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:18:16 +0000

I’m glad this is working for you all. It’s a lot of fun! The only drawback of course is that it’s very time-consuming, which is the main reason why I’m reprinting these haiku comments here: the project leaves me little time to compose my own blog posts, much less to maintain a suddenly redundant Smorgasblog. So, probably not sustainable in the long term, unless I decide to completely revise my mode of online activity.

Lucy – Not sure I’ve heard of that blog. I’ll have to check it out.

Julie – Funny you should mention Orion. I just left a 17-syllable comment about Orion over at Creek Running North yesterday (this post).

Thanks for your kind words about my blogging.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:41:56 +0000

I’ve been questioning the time I expend on plugged in reading and writing lately, especially since reading an Orion essay (November/December ’07) by Robert Michael Pyle, “Pulling the Plug.” But your blog as exemplified by your haiku comments posts reassure me against Pyle’s assertion that “electronica may threaten not only serenity but society itself.” Reading your haiku enhances my serenity and makes me proud of being part of the blogging world. Thanks for the inspiration.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:09:18 +0000

I have observed some of your haiku around the place already. They are a good way of composing a comment, save that thumb-twiddling, I-liked-it-but-what-to-say feeling, giving a focus.
Over at Robin Starfish’s Motel you get an extra chocolate on your pillow if you comment in haiku, though being a virtual one it is somewhat lacking in savour!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:51:00 +0000

I’m charmed by the intertextuality of what you’re doing here.

Also I quite like many of these haiku, especially the first, second, third, and last ones in this post.