There was once a young lady, quite bright
who could travel much faster than light
she departed one day
in a relative way
and returned on the previous night
Anonymous (+ some artistic freedoms…)
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Lascaux Cave
Every new neighbor has drilled in the concrete wall adjacent to my living room. I imagine it’s a virtual Lascaux Cave in that place by now.
Rainy days with ice cream
Judge: Since this is a rainy day you’re looking at life in prison, son. Bring me ice cream and we might slap a possibility of parole on it…
World Building Snafu
I’m spending a couple of hours creating a song I’m thinking might be sung in the story somewhere. It’s really nice, and I even have a translation. Just a few verses but enough to get the job done (after all, I’m not writing a songbook!)
Then I take a step back and realize a problem: the thing is written in the wrong language! These people wouldn’t sing in this language!
Oh, snap!
Fortunately, with the pretty nice translation, and the fact that if I haven’t used the word before, I can bend and twist it to my liking (and my grammar rules will bend and twist right back… yeah yeah…) it wasn’t that hard to make a new “translation”.
Yay for effective writing! (Ok! Ok! But I am having fun! That’s gotta count for something! Right?)
Helen Back
Helen Back walks into a bar.
“You look like you could need a drink,” says the bartender.
She gives him a tired glare.
“You look like you could need a drink,” says the bartender.
She gives him a tired glare.
If you don’t like what I write
If you don’t like what I write, you can take comfort in the fact that I don’t like what you think.
The Writing Process, or The End of Innocence
A: “The End.” Yay! Done!
B laughs loudly and viciously: No you’re not. You’re not even halfway. Now comes editing!
B laughs loudly and viciously: No you’re not. You’re not even halfway. Now comes editing!
Ancestry
I am of 3/4 Swedish and 1/4 unknown ancestry… however, being a Homo Sapiens I also claim African descent…
I am also curious as to why all actor profiles on IMDB speaks of people’s ancestry… It’s almost worth trying to get into some movie as an extra just to be able to put the above in my own profile… Can you have a profile as a moviegoer? I mean, IMDB is falling apart anyway…
Protect and Serve
I asked the police for condoms. They threatened to arrest me. So much for “Protect and Serve”!
2020 Hingsight
Did, the coronavirus just give the expression “2020 Hindsight” a new meaning?
