02.16.2003

Grasping at Spoons

I'm getting (or having gotten) old, so 1:30am is late, and maybe that's why this guy's expressing how much he hates everyone amuses me. Maybe he's just amusing anyway. "i organized my cds and cleaned out a bag i haven't worn since september." Ah, the good old days. When I had enough spare bags laying around that I could keep them, unworn and in a closet, for months on end. (note (possibly to the author of the nameless blog in question): this would be a lot more universally enjoyable if I could link to your particular entries. GET WITH THE PROGRAM. He said the thing about the bag on February 11, 2003. See how fucking tired I am? Am I still writing? Did I just say that out loud?)

While I'm there - Raven Black has some cool stuff, including a Random Surrealism Generator, AND a page for Recipricol Links, which is why I'm putting all these links here. I've gotta whore myself out, see. This is important.

I spend quite a few minutes out of any given couple of hours trying to figure out how bloggers find the weird shit on the web they find. I'm not immune, to be sure - every once in a while I trip over something. But my pointed efforts to dig up heretofore unheralded craziness are almost always futile. I can always go to one of the memepools or metafilters and have the shit spoon-fed to me, but that's cheating.

Here. Have a Spoon Bending Party. Apparently it works best if you're ignoring the spoons. Which is weird, cuz I ignore my spoons (and forks and knives, for that matter) all the time, and they're never suddenly all soft and pliable when I pick them up. Perhaps it's gotta be a whole BUNCH of people, ignoring the same spoons. "It gets soft," he said, "and then, suddenly the brakes come off." Well, Fork You. I'm not going to go out and make friends just so I can get them over here to ruin my silverware.

That fork you girl quotes Michael Crichton (Critch Ton) as saying it requires a "focused inattention." (forkhow) Which is also, incidentally, how Douglas Adams would have us fly. (And just how the hell doesn't the Douglas Adams Quote Generator have anything about flying?)

I've gotta wrap this up. I bought a used copy of The Grasping Hand today, which has a quote from someone about being worth the eighteen year wait. I just read The Mote In God's Eye a couple of months ago, so it definitely better have been worth the wait for me. (If the book I'm talking about isn't called what I called it (The Grasping Hand), I'm gonna be pissed off when I get in bed to read it and have to consider coming back out here to fix this. So live with it.)

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