ENTRY # 85 Creative Commons is sponsoring a contest to make a 2 minute moving image (flash, video, animation, movie) to explain Creative Commons mission. End date for submission is 12/31. An explanation of Creative Commons by means of comics Do play. (I will).
ENTRY # 84 We got into town late enough to miss my parents and siblings dinner. Caught them at the point where they were paying the check. The restaurant/bar has a no one under 21 after 9:30 policy, so Jim and say our goodbyes in search of a family friendly kind of place, and lobster–it is Maine. Dinner. The kids watched by their Tita Leece. Jim and I go back …
ENTRY # 83 What do you do for comfort? Cream of wheat, with butter, sugar and milk; buy a slammin’ outfit…used to cut my hair when it belonged only to me. My boys run to me, so I can hold them. There are ready arms, if I choose to go there. Why cant I just go? Why the reticence? If I said, I dont want to talk…itd be okay. But …
ENTRY # 82 At Jill/txt, Jill posts about blog mutilation. Actually, shes referencing Tinka and her paratexts. Sans the datestamp, the blog narrative becomes really interesting. While the sequential nature of the entries suggests chronology, its less fixed. If the blogger plays with flashback, non-linearity becomes pronounced. What happens if Tinka plays with order in the archives? Suppose we have the random read? Sort by title alphabetically? Im a big …
ENTRY # 81 Playing a little point –>Chuck Tyron picked up on the notion of happy endings, (A lovely piece by Margaret Atwood on how all endings are ultimately the same) paired it with the notion of first person narrative in real time and mixed in ideas regarding after image. Lets play… Entry: Our protagonist is tired Entry: Our protagonist meets someone Entry: Our protagonist fights with someone Entry: Our …
ENTRY # 80 Suspension, Robert ParkeHarrison When presented something vividly enough, however fantastic, it becomes real. Theres that whole “This is not a pipe” discourse. What you see isnt the thing itself, but a representation of the thing. So saying, this is not me. This is a selection – a sliver of me that I deign to expose. Over time, after multiple slivers, one would expect to start accumulating enough …
ENTRY # 77 Early blog<object of the latter. He seems to have some settled scheme of his own, but what it is I do not know. His redeeming quality is a love of animals, though, indeed, he has such curious turns in it that I sometimes imagine he is only abnormally cruel. His pets are of odd sorts. Just now his hobby is catching flies. He has at present such …
ENTRY # 78 This is what Ive come up with… Blogs are a first person narrative in real time. The story is focused upon the protagonist, it may be extremely personal/personable or the story may be of a larger scope – ie. technological trends and innovation as they effect our hero, with occassional tangential tidbits hinting at life beyond (augmented by the occassional cheese sandwich). At the very least, we …
ENTRY # 76 “You should stand up for yourself.” Thats what Kamel said a while ago. It was in the context of me being around strong personalities, and I think, ultimately, he was concerned that people would take advantage of me. “Thatd be a big change. HUGE.” At the time, I thought he was wrong. That I am strong in my own way. I have few confrontations. Rarely have fights. …
ENTRY # 75 What percentage of a day is good? of a life? Take away sleep, and some work, trivial shit, and general upkeep. Theres plenty of time spent thinking about life in general, hurts imagined and real. Possibly regrets and those proverbial roads not taken. Then there is just pure joy.
