I was born in the back of a mustang............I guess you could call it superpowers


Right, so I picked up the new old 97's disk and change by the dismemeberment plan this weekend. Real happy with both.

Last week was a long one worked in excess of 80 hours between my two jobs and had to deal with probably the most rude person I've ever met. This week is all about taking it easier. That said I'm likely going to have a second interview with a prospective employer this week and I'm looking forward to a new source of primary employment, even if I don't get this one, I'm optomistic that I'll be able, now with a year of sales experience, be able to find a position that'll fit my needs. It kind of feels like I'm starting over again, but in a good, back to school way, not in a fuel-air bomb exploded over my house yesterday way.

out,
Erasmus

Lately I've been seeing some good stuff on metafilter here's a couple of links that I found real amusing today: first there's this no circles game, the point of which is to figure out how to play it and second is this dancing eyball/plant thing.

Out,
Erasmus

post script: I saw Jack Edwards, the son of John, held upside down on the tv today - surely an election clinching moment. That and those Kerry sisters (anybody see the Canes festival pic) being all cute with their bros the heinz boys.

Bought some disk, saw some explosions

Ya, so this weekend I bought the new wilco cd. The wilco cd's tough for me to get a grasp of, but it's one of those peices that I'm not fond of now, but likely will be fond of in a month after I've let it soak for a bit. Right, so I went back home to the county with more cows than people and as many stoplights as county seats with my girl and watched the fireworks there - they didn't disappoint - 15 blissful minutes and maybe thrice as many fire works shot into the dark dark sky, good times all around, much deck sitting and sun soaking, pleasent, relaxing. Anyway, here back in the cities after all that is just fine with me as well.

Yo,

I'm not really much for the online quiz thing, but I found this one on metafilter and I like it.

A couple of years ago I read the first in the harry potter series and thought that it was unpalletable, but in the last couple weeks following the release of the latest movie I've read the books that follow "The Prisoner of Askaban" in the series and I honestly enjoyed them. Anyway, right now I'm reading two books, well three really: "The Bone People" by Keri Hulme which was a gift from my youngest sister about 11 months ago (my last b-day), "Memoir from Antproof Case" by Mark Helprin , and "East of Eden" by my beloved John Stienbeck. Anyway, I'm a real fan of Steinbeck's short works - Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row in particular, but after starting EOE I had a breakthough; I've found the key fault in Steinbeck's writing and it's....well deplorable - there's no wizard, witches or any real majic in them at all. Seriously, how can you really write a book or read on for that matter without the necessary presence of a wizard, a good wizard battle or anything of the like. I'm quite dissappointed in this bloke Stienbeck and would contend that he's not a real author at all, just some kind of possuer who pretended to write and was lauded by fradulent critics who through arcaic devices somehow saw past the essential wizards.

Aaaugh!
Erasmus

For a good time check this out; if only for the concluding paragraph:


"The good news is: Liberals' anti-war hysteria seems to have run its course. I base this conclusion on Al Gore (news - web sites)'s lunatic anti-war speech last week. Gore always comes out swinging just as an issue is about to go south. He's the stereotypical white guy always clapping on the wrong beat. Gore switched from being a pro-defense Democrat to a lefty peacenik -- just before the 9/11 attack. He grew a beard -- just in time for an attack on the nation by fundamentalist Muslims. He endorsed Howard Dean (news - web sites) -- just as the orange-capped Deaniacs were punching themselves out. Gore even went out and got really fat -- just before America officially gave up carbs. This guy is always leaping into the mosh pit at the precise moment the crowd parts. Mark my words: Now that good old Al has come lunging in, the anti-war movement is dead. "

Yee Ha!

Reminder


Hey, don't be afraid to check chromewords . I'm making a concerted effort to try to get two new posts per day up there to force my creativity into renewal. Maybe it's just all shit, but I'll let you throw it at me next time we come face to face.


Later,
Chromeeyes

ps On Chromewords I'm limiting my links to other fiction, but if you've got a suggestion let me know.

Two questions: What was missing, missed.


It's a strange sensation, missing something so terribly that nothing seems right. For me the sensation is made more unnerving because of the oscillation that it induces emotionally. A division between holding the light from one star in your hand, a single strand precisely focused from the span of millions; the incredible invigoration and the acute anguish lined with relief of knowing that when you let go that it must not be yours. Angish and relief in the knowledge that that single strand cannot be held in focus for any longer with at its present clarity and that if again you are able to elucidate its true brillance, a new perspective must be established first.


-Erasmus

Looking Backwards (but not by edward bellamy)

I was looking over this thing today and it looks like I took a solid month break in writing this thing. That's good and bad, but I like this outlet and will likely keep it up for some time to come, you know for the sake of the children and all. But, really, I've got to figure out how to motivate myself this way for the rest of my life - some days last forever, some days are timeless, and some days I've got time and time again to do everything that I set out to.

Distasteful


I usually don't get a kick out of those folks who think ripping christians for their prudishness and other beliefs is cool, in fact I think it's probably one of my biggest gripes with the left, but anyway this I really got a kick out of.

Later,
Erasmus

I went out last night to this little basement joint call the artists quarter. Not a bad ride really, did ok considering. Regardless it was quite right to see some crusters rocking out hard to the music that they're passionate about - I respect that. Anyway..............

Out,
Erasmus

Songs that come to mind today:

In Amsterdam - Guster
Burning Photographs - Ryan Adams

-Chromeeyes

Lately I've been taking back routes to get where I'm going. There's something in the redundency of taking the same route to the same place time and time again that irks me. It's enough to break the bordom of travel for me to take a 5 minute detour on my 15 minute drive to work daily. I like to make new connections, connect the city through ways and roads that, while backwards do go places and someday if I need to find one of those places I'll be going by familiar territory in the stead of traveling blindly into an unknown sector. Furthermore, I like to fill in the holes of my understanding of what's around me; the scope of the scape is best understood thuroughly.

I'm not angry anymore.

Short Fiction

After some consideration, I've decided to split my blog. The new site will be comprised of my putrid attempts at short fiction, that way, my life can't be confused with my writing, additionally, those of you who read this to see where I'm at won't have to be innundated by the trash that I try to compose creatively.

Anyway, let me know if there's anything that doesn't work and I'll fix it. Blogger has started putting up new features (I think they support the comments directly now) so I'll see what I can do with that there before I make any additional changes here.

OUT,
Erasmus

Tomorrow I'm going to post a short story that conceptually I've stewed on for some time. It'll be pretty green, but it's something that I've been meaning to put up since I've started this insane art of blogging. Issue being that I want to be held to my deadline here and elsewhere.

pieced out,
Erasmus

News..........focus

This morning on my standby headline news I saw a report on the ooh scary gmos. The report focused on how to avoid eating these demon products. The problem with the report wasn't the information given, but the assumption that a gmo is "bad". This is the kind of thing that makes me go wild mad. Instead of information I got a shopping guide - "buy certified organic." This is precisely the kind of reporting that all the folks concerned with liberal and conservative bias have issue with, though not with this kind of article. Furthurmore it's not only not informative, but not interesting. More pertinent to the topic would be how, if we as consumers deem that we don't want gmos (the real danger is not to the consumer in the short run (ie medical reasons) but danger to the food supply, loss of diversity in the organisms that produce food for us) then we as consumers have the power to show our choice by not buying products that contain those components. The writing assumes too much and the premise is biased; these people are supposed to be professionals(or maybe I'm asking too much from a cable news networt?).

Over,
Erasmus

Weekend notes:

Car Washed
Hair Cut
Oil Changed
Insides torn
Outsides tanned and bloodied(slightly)
Resolve resolved

Out,
Chromeeyes

I've been meaning to touch on this one for a while, but haven't had the words........

It's like this, vivid dreams have left, which is good see my livejounal piece from months ago. Sometimes it take a bit to get right.

.........that's not what I meant to write about for a while, lost the words again.

Search is on. Yo, I'm searching for new work, serious like as of today. Interest rates are disasterously high and I'm not sticking around this mortgage industry to see what the fallout comes to, I've been floundering quite long enough as it is. Anybody got a line in on something that I'm looking for please let me know. That's the hard and fast and long and short of it.

somehow calm, but quite disheveled,
Chromeeyes, aka erasmus