Bloglet, the gentleman's mock turtle soup -- Moss made it sweeter than myrrh ash and dhoup
I'm going to do NaNoWriMo this year. I've decided I'm going to do NaNoWriMo every year until I actually finish it. That, at least, is a realistic goal. I'm very good at starting things I'll never finish, and I'm so starry-eyed I never get discouraged about them no matter how many times they're washed up. I don't care if it takes me eighty years -- every November from here on out will be Novel November, world without end, amen.
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08:49:45 PM,Tuesday 30 September 2003
Huh. Well, this is pretty slick. Our new yuppie-riffic (it's actually pretty classy, the prices aren't any worse than anywhere else in town, and it's owned by an ex-college professor from Libby, but, y'know, us rugged anti-bourgeouis types have to disparage anything that smacks of pretention and consumption, especially if we're the ones pretending and consuming. Plus, I've been kind of hyperaware to economic tastelessness lately after reading too many late-80's gadget ads in my dad's OMNI magazine back issues) coffee shop gives you a free 15 minutes of internet if you buy a drink, with a buck per fifteen minutes after that. And they lend you these groovy wireless keyboards and mice, and it's all just, y'know, coooool. There's no one in here but me and two old ladies. They've got an excellent selection of obscure-ass soft drinks which I gotta try. I think I'm favorably impressed with the place, faux-rococo murals on the ceiling notwithstanding. I hope they do awright.
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07:09:58 PM,Tuesday 30 September 2003
It's a glorious day and I love my hometown and its easy strangeness and I am incontrovertibly happy. Maybe too happy. But leave that for another day.
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06:43:54 PM,Tuesday 30 September 2003
It kind of blows my mind that I'm nowhere near the biggest slacker in this class.
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12:25:56 AM,Tuesday 30 September 2003
Ooh, I'm sure this is in no way original, but I just thought of it, and it delights me: what if Mr. W. H. was a beautiful towheaded boy in Shakespeare's company, who also played Kate (with a long black wig) in The Taming of the Shrew? So the master-mistress sonnets were written to him out of character, and the dark lady ones to him in drag? His breasts were dun because they were made of wadded-up sackcloth! It's perfect! Heh heh.
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05:20:14 PM,Monday 29 September 2003
Argh! I'm late to the game 'cause I was out on the town at 7:00 when I realized I had to come home to play the game and my computer's in the shop and this computer doesn't have IRC and I can't remember my AIM password and neither the LeonardCohenFiles java IRC nor the ColostomyChat (don't ask) java IRC are working and Argh I suck I'm sorry!
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09:14:32 PM,Sunday 28 September 2003
Can a happy man write tragedy?
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09:56:51 AM,Friday 26 September 2003
I am not going swimming because I am BAD. {smacks self on wrist with ruler}
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09:52:35 AM,Thursday 25 September 2003
My nephew, about whom I have recently blogged, is taking a twice a week, one-credit course at the University. The class consists of 40 women, him, a selection of oversized plastic tinkertoys, and a continuous blaring drone of, in his words, "techno-modern-rock". Yes, the flesh of my flesh is in a STEP AEROBICS CLASS. I am simultaneously overwhelmed by his incredible cojones and his... his... {inarticulate gibbering}.
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12:04:50 AM,Thursday 25 September 2003
In my head, my voice is like a choirboy's: small, white, unmodulated, but pure. It can certainly go very high, and it doesn't even take much effort anymore after I started carrying music with me everywhere and singing along in public, damn the torpedoes. But it's impossible to really judge the quality of your own voice -- have you noticed? Even on recordings; you can tell how smooth or how in tune a particular phrase is, but as soon as you identify the voice as your own, your mind substitutes your internal perceived timbre for the real one. At least, mine does. Hell, y'know, I don't care. Let people wince and flutter. I ain't singing for nobody but me.
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09:39:26 AM,Wednesday 24 September 2003
Once Supremo was sliced into bits exept for his brain so they put it in a robots head so Supremo can still stop evil doers.
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11:49:34 PM,Tuesday 23 September 2003
My nephew and I have the same nose. It makes me happy.
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11:46:59 PM,Tuesday 23 September 2003
Laboravi in gemitu meo: lavabo per singulas noctes lectum meum; in lacrimis meis stratum meum rigabo.
I am weary with my groaning: all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Psalms 6:6
I'm trying to do this in two-part florid counterpoint after the manner of Lassus. So far I've got five bars in the Phrygian mode, with strict imitation on the fifth. If, uh, any of you guys got any ideas how to set this thing, I'd be most grateful to hear 'em. It's due by *gulp* 7:00 this evening.
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01:33:20 PM,Monday 22 September 2003
What a fabulous new blog I just discovered while Googling for "counterpoint polyphony blog". Woo!
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11:39:27 AM,Monday 22 September 2003
But Haydn Trio Eisenstadt are pretty good. You should go see 'em if you get the chance.
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10:09:54 AM,Monday 22 September 2003
Hold it... I feel one of my spells coming on.
ARGH I MISS ST. JOHN'S THEY WON'T EVER LET ME COME BACK I'LL NEVER BE HAPPY AGAIN I JUST WANT TO BE AT ST. JOHN'S ARGH ARGH ARGH ARRRRRGH!
Just like clockwork. They don't seem to be getting farther apart yet. That's a bad sign.
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09:53:35 AM,Monday 22 September 2003
The DIATONIC scale, that is!
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05:43:23 PM,Sunday 21 September 2003
I think... I think I will never sleep again. You know that feeling? Of course you do.
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06:10:36 PM,Friday 19 September 2003
Ha! What flattery! I submitted my "five questions" entry (yes, Julia, I am a bad bad person. I will. Soon. Promise.) into the "Gender Genie" and was told, after it had analyzed my writing style by counting the frequency of certain arbitrary-seeming words, that I was a man. I told it it was wrong, and it popped up with:
"That is one butch chick.
According to Koppel and Argamon, the algorithm should predict the gender of the author approximately 80% of the time."
Well, hee hee hee. I'm pleased as punch.
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04:20:11 PM,Friday 19 September 2003
Oh yeah! Talk Like a Pirate Day! How landlubbery of me... um, um... ok, this won't be hard... just a few minor adjustments to your regularly scheduled programming...
Q. What's a pirate's favorite medieval musical pedagogue?
A. Guido of ARRRRezzo, of course!
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11:25:57 AM,Friday 19 September 2003