I was rained on a bit today, very cold as well. I gave two people the same advice regarding different scenarios.
“Decide what is important, and pursue it as hard as you can.”-andrew raab
I have used up my word quota for the day in lengthy discussions and typing multi-page letters. The blog is getting the shaft! Goodnight.
I have a half finished post entitled “Useful Talents”. I was trying to make a sub-thee-thousand word analogical/satirical story about someone stealing cars and how her family never knew what she did at night. All the signs were there, but the family refused to believe that she was capable of such heinous acts, until it happened to one of them. After reading the longer, unedited version of the story I came to realise that the father, who is also the narrator, had deep problems as well. They never had a clear understanding of each others role’s and how their roles impacted everyone else in the family. Personally very insecure, the thief, who is the step daughter, is driven to stealing cars because her role (in the family) is never validated through communication, which she craves, with her Father. Or so I planned in the first draft. Then the father feels violated because it is his car that gets stolen, and I came up with this low self-esteem complex in the Father but it didn’t work, because I define the son the same way earlier in the plot. Then the characters interactions became too complex and I was comparing the son to myself, and all of the sudden the story lost focus. I failed to write the characters according to their original definitions. (Which isn’t to say people can’t change, but this is a very short story.) My story has no scheme, and it is more of a philosophical, err, or psychological exploration of this family and their twisted relationships. Any suggestions?
…and as I’m typing this I see that I have switched verb tenses many times, which is poor grammar. I’m going to publish it anyway. Everyone who reads this can hope for something better structured tomorrow or the next day. I’ve got an eight hour ride to put something together in my head.
My roommate is dying to get me to smoke pot with him. He said “I can convince you to smoke, but you’ll probably be angry with me.” What does this mean? I told him that I didn’t need to be convinced; someday I would like to smoke pot. Right now though, I want to eat ice cream. It has been an amazing day, start to finish. I hope everyone who reads this enjoyed their weekend as well.
-andrew
- I’ll give two thoughts for today.
I read this one and copied it. It is pretty emo but I like it anyway:
1. “A dreamers last resort in holding on to his dreams.”
2. at·ti·tude 
(āt’ĭ-tōōd’, -tyōōd’) Pronunciation Key
n.
Interesting. Don’t give it too much thought because I’ll type some better shit tomorrow.
Despite not having a working television, I am unable to avoid the presidential race, or the pre-election race show. It is all over every news channel, especially since “super Tuesday” and some guy named Mitt dropped out of the Republican Primary today. The catch phrases, also known as advertising slogans, are very ironic. For example, “You Decide 2008″ is what is being passed around so we can identify with the primary elections as well as making the association with actually “deciding”. I think they are trying to make that synonymous with voting, but really your vote is totally marginalized by some electoral college. Diane Rehm admitted that she didn’t even understand all the new rules of the delegate/SUPER delegate primary system. It is a game show. I wonder if 30 million dollars could be spent on something better than bashing Hillary Clinton’s history, trying to win this bullshit election. Also, why isn’t there a physical challenge? A mud wrestling contest or spear throw would tell me a lot about a possible candidate…and the results are quantifiable! I’m sick of watching the trickery and word bending that is a debate. I feel like I’m being lied to, over and over. Mostly I wish I didn’t have to hear or see this garbage because the outcome doesn’t really matter. The only thing more insane than a presidential race is thinking that any of the candidates actually represent anyone in this country besides the ultra-wealthy.
My dad’s car doesn’t have a CD player. I was forced to listen to the radio the whole way to Pittsburgh…or talk on the phone. As always I think that commercials insult the intelligence of the general population, and here is the best example I have heard in a long time. At the end of a wall mart commercial for valentines days the women said something like “thanks Wall-Mart for having such great prices on candy for my daughter and all her valentines” then the Wall-Mart guy slogans off “Wall Mart – Save Money, Live Better!” What is the message here? The only thing I can take away from this is that if you have lots of money in your bank account (from all that “saving” you’ve been doing) you will LIVE better. Amazing.
I think i will put this up on my blog. Yes i will.
Stupid Wall Mart
I did poorly in college English. I always wanted to be an author though. I’m going to begin putting something together. The people reading this blog will have forgotten my name by the time I finish anything worth reading.
I was out of town, taking care of other family business, maybe that is where it will start. Also, Diego got my computer back from the people that took it from me. That is good news.
This is dinner.
This is what I would’ve rather had for dinner.
If there was a way to track all the events that occur that end up…ending up, than we could predict the future. That is a poorly constructed thought so I’ll give an example. This is me drinking coffee.
There isn’t a way to look back at all the things that lead up to me liking coffee. I can mostly remember not liking coffee, and encouraging people not to drink coffee, then all of the sudden I am enjoying it regularly. Why is this important? Mostly we learn about history so as not to repeat its mistakes. No matter how much we analyze the results of history, we seem to want to test ourselves over and over, therefore repeating the same mistakes of the past. Why can’t we locate the crucial moment in our past when a change occurred. One party wants one thing and the other party wants something else. Motives, agenda, money, women, information, land, power? Who is benefiting most from the decisions made around us? Made for us? What events led up to this? Who is the victim? I listened to a conversation about the super bowl. People were placing bets on who they thought would win. One of the parties bet on who they thought would win based on logical information. The other bet based on their perception of which team was stronger emotionally. Logic versus emotion. Believing one thing and practicing the other. How does it come to this? How was their past significant in the bets they place now? One must think they are special to place a bet emotionally. Ultimately, aren’t really betting against ourselves if we bet against history?
