Loading ...I can’t say I’ve felt much like writing lately, but I really can’t let all this tension stop me from doing what I love most. So through all the anxiety, nausea, insomnia, exhaustion, headaches, tummy aches and decreased appetite, I write.
Worked on my novel through much of a sleepless night, but I don’t want to neglect my blog.
I noticed over yonder on the front page, on a post I wrote about something Bas said (cuz you know, I always seem to be writing posts about something Bas says), I’ve gotten over 300 pageviews. Now a couple of months ago, I’d of thought this is due to my mention of Leonardo da Vinci, because hey, that code thing and all. But now I believe the traffic was drawn to that post because I mention snakes and planes in the same sentence.
Who’d a thought such an incongruous conjunction of words would draw so many folks, ay?
And I wasn’t even talking about the fucking movie. It was just a cultural reference that I shoved in there on a whim to show that, you know, despite the fact that I’m living off shrivelled tofu dogs and a bottle of 6 month old cheap champagne, I can still be culturally aware.
Of course I haven’t seen the movie. I can’t afford fresh tofu dogs, what the hell makes you think I can afford a movie? And if I could afford a movie, I’d probably see Pirates 2 because, you know. Pirates. Is there any woman alive who doesn’t like pirates?
Of course not. Even the lesbians love female pirates.
I’ve always wanted to be a pirate. Not the software kind of pirate, the seven-seas kind. I’d get to wear cool clothes, carry a sword.
Oh and lesbians would love me.
Failing the seven-seas kind of pirate, a space-pirate would be nice.
I seem to have gone off on a tangent. The mind tends to wander when one is surviving on shrivelled tofu dogs and 6 month old cheap champagne. Pirates even seem to have made an appearance in my novel.
My novel is about werewolves.
Meh, I’ll fix it later.
The other reason I probably won’t see snakes on a plane is because its about snakes. On a plane. Seems to be maybe lacking in some substance there.
And I’ll bet there’s not a goddam pirate in sight.
And anyway, I like snakes. Don’t find’em too menacing.
So now that you’ve been lured to this post by snakes, planes and pirates doing the waggle dance (I have no idea where the waggle dance came from - does cheap champagne turn hallucinogenic after 6 months?), just sign the petition already.
It only takes a second, and you can save my ass from freezing on the streets this winter, so that I can finish my werewolf/pirate novel and do the waggle-dance for many years to come.
And did you know there’s a movie called Snakes on a Train?
Were you expecting something about retro-active butterflies?
Buy me a beer!
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You are on to something here. From now on, I’ll pepper all of my responses with some pop cultural phenomenon. You’ll be viewed by millions! Billions! And will probably get 4 or 5 of them to sign the petition.
I figure its a good idea to keep the petition live in case its needed next month. I’m sure by then 2 or 3 more people will have signed.
I’ve been thinking about your petition (and the 20 very generous people who have signed it, and that includes you and me, apparently), and I realized that it is actually hard to find on your site. The heading says “A Conspicuous Absense”, not “Please Sign this Petition So I’m not Homeless!” or “This Petition will Save Me” or “A Fun Petition for You and Your Friends to Sign” or “Snakes on a Plane Would Sign this Petition . . . Won’t You?”
Maybe more people would see it.
Of course, I meant on the main page. Not on the Shattered Prayer where it says, quite plainly, please sign the petition.
Tramadol….
Tramadol….