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Saturday, May 25, 2002
quote
"I'm kidding." [pause] "I'm half-kidding." [pause] "I'm serious, actually." -- Amanda
00:59
update
Saw Star Wars last night, and so did Patrick. He wants to hang out with Natalie Portman. I'm hoping for something much more realistic. There were two guys at the movie theater dressed up as a Storm Trooper and a Jedi, hired to patiently pose for pictures with all the movie-goers.... After the show we walked home, dissecting the film. And when we turned a corner, there they were -- packing up their car, looking like rejects from a Star Wars backlot. Love a man in uniform.
00:56
Friday, May 24, 2002
site
Guy with temp job + war + clip art = Clip art characters debate U.S. policy in Afghanistan.
16:16
Thursday, May 23, 2002
headlines in my head
It *is* possible to create weird habits spontaneously. Recently I started thinking of my life in headlines. "Girl eats entire pint of ice cream for no reason." "Girl crosses street unscathed." "Girl screws up sandwich order, recovers." Hopefully this is just a short-term quirk.
21:44
site
If you thought weblogs were revealing, try this: A family is living in a Harrod's store window for a week. Friends, the future has arrived. (via girlhacker)
21:39
Wednesday, May 22, 2002
metablog
Elisa's take: "We want to hear stories, heartaches, successes because in some way, these tales make us more human. The touch is a split-second of anonymous bonding that in some unexplainable way makes your life richer."
23:30
quote
"In a way, apartment searching is a metaphor for life, or at least the part of life that is spent searching for apartments." -- Tim Kearns, Iowa State Daily
11:01
Tuesday, May 21, 2002
housekeeping note
In an effort to actually put something in the Randomness section, I'm trying an experiment. It could be interesting. It could suck. We won't know until we try. For now this site isn't form-enabled, so I'm taking the cheap and lazy way out with a Lycos feedback form. I promise that's temporary.
21:11
local wildlife update
Charlie and I were walking down the sidewalk yesterday evening when a fox ran across our path. It was a little surprising. I didn't know foxes still lived around here... didn't we kill them off? Or maybe it was just a really big squirrel.
13:15
Monday, May 20, 2002
the new plan
I will buy a used car that's almost on its last legs. But not too close to death. And then, I will drive it until it can drive no more. That is where I will live. Hopefully there will be a tow truck/public transportation nearby.
20:59
questions
a) If I didn't take things so seriously, would that be a change for the better, or the worse?
b) Where do all the sensitive writers go? Is there some line of work that's perfect for the thoughtful, honest literary type? I feel like there must be. If you have any suggestions, please write in.
14:38
Sunday, May 19, 2002
metablog
"Although at bottom every blog has the same underlying premise -- 'Hey, look at me!' -- plaintive pleas for cyber-sympathy manifest themselves in different ways." So says a fellow blogger.
This is what I say.
23:44
site
A virtual version of the Chartres labyrinth that you can trace through with your mouse. It's boring as all heck but an interesting way to illustrate the concept. Also a decent use of Flash.
15:24
on twists and turns
I helped build a labyrinth during retreat last weekend. Two other retreat leaders and I made it out of blue painter's tape on a linoleum floor. A labyrinth is a centuries-old pattern of twists and turns packed into a circle that you're supposed to walk as you meditate/pray. Then you reach the center and meditate some more before you exit the way you came in. We were making it late Saturday night so retreat participants could walk it in the morning.I've been trying to figure out what that experience meant, why it seemed so thrilling to create. We'd forgotten to bring directions, so all we had was a couple of rolls of tape, a tiny diagram, and a room just barely big enough for it. But someone studied the diagram, figured out where the lines were supposed to go, and we laid down tape with uncertain hope that we were doing it right.
We screwed up a few lines, fixed them, ran out of tape, improvised. And when we were done -- sweaty, silly, tired -- we walked through it growing more excited with every turn. We'd reproduced this path on a blank floor and there we were, walking it, every step bringing us closer to the center. We skipped, jumped, joked our way through it until we realized it worked, the paths all connected and led walkers to the center. It was a beautiful mess of uneven, crinkled blue tape.
The next day, other people on retreat walked it and no one skipped through it or thought it was, as we posted on a nearby sign, "the coolest thing ever." Of course not; we didn't expect them too. They were walking the path, experiencing the twists and turns without knowing where they would be taken next. We'd been making the path. People say the labyrinth is a metaphor for life itself, and that's why it's powerful to walk through it. So if that's true, what is making a labyrinth a metaphor for? I'm not sure. I'm thinking "experience of creating" vs. "experience of following". Maybe.
00:33
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