Well howdy doody there cats and kittens, thiseehere blog might be a day late and a dollar short but hopefully its at least enough to get you all through a cup of coffee or whatever it is you drink over there in your own respective areas of the world. I had a lot of trouble getting up the nerve to actually admit all the things I love about America, but here I finally am, perhaps mostly because it is my turn to post the topic for this week as well and I don't want to keep you people waiting too long.
Letssssssseeeeee... America. Yup pretty much I like being in the mountians, in the ocean, or somewhere dodging bullets if I'm back in the states. The last part was a lie. I've never dodged a bullet in my life. By the way, I'm writing this on like 3 hours of sleep and not nearly enough coffee to sustain any kind of logical thought process. But as it were, I do like the fact that Americans generally don't beat around the bush as much as people living in some other countries *ahem* Japan *ahem*. I do miss my friends, family, and the openness of being able to walk up to some random people on the street and strike up a conversation, but the better my Japanese becomes the more opportunities I have to do just that and am able to make more friends here, so even that is perhaps only a matter of being accustomed. But I also miss smalltalk. Like little quips about whateverthehell when you're at work. But that might be something I love about English and not particularly America.
Anyway, thats about all I've got to say about that.
Now for the topic of the week, which can be taken as literally or as figuratively as you want. The topic is shadows. I'm going to post a longer blog about it later this week but I'm interested to see what everyone has to say about shadows, be it their own or the ones cast over them, the shadows of lingering memories, of love, the literal shade of an oak on a scorching summer day. Just write about shadows. And let it roll out of you like the nothing.
Peace.
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3 comments:
I'm a fan of the conceptual topic.
I don't know if you are a fan of David Milch, but you write...er...speak, just like John in "John From Cincinnati" (especially the end of "His Visit: Day Five") on HBO. Download it and judge for yourself. I, myself, am a fan of Milch's profanity laced "Deadwood," which was killed off to make room for John. Studip HBO.
I'll take something from HBO any day of the week over any "network television." As things are, I spend my free time sharpening my whit by catching rodents and training them to dance. Thanks for the reference though. I'll check it out. But if we're too similar, one of us will have to be destroyed. I'm not a fan of dopplegangers (although that was a cool collection of spiderman, what with carnage and his cronies.)
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