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I'm not here.

I'm not even sure where "here" is.

I'm not even sure what "not" is. I'm not even sure what "not even sure" is. I was just listening to Paul Harvey, Jr. on some AM station. I have no idea why.

Remember the World's Most Boring Blog? I'm trying to give it a run for the... thing.

Maybe this ongoing, say-nothing-in-the-future thing can just be ongoing.

See how I did that? Yeah.

At any rate it's even harder when I'm actually in the office.

I don't remember if I have a tag for this category of things yet.

"FAIL"

I hate that term so bad. I hate that I had to just use the word to describe what I hate.

That word is a failure.

Honestly it's only because I'm already tangled up in this stupid, Quixotic task that I'm linking now to No One Likes Everything. The blog has a cool title, and in the page of posts I can see there now (previous to your now,) there are a few interesting posts. I think I like this guy's point of view - a fact I primarily gleaned from reading his entries in that metafilter thread I just recently (weeks ago?) linked/didn't really talk about. I'd blogroll it except, well, see previous entries about that.

Also: I guess I zipped right past Thanksgiving. I should possibly be able to zip through the birthday of my first child, the birth of my second, and the christmas of all of us this way without too horribly much effort.

And that's, after all, what it's all about: doing things for no reason without expending much effort.

(via cynical-c, which is in my blogroll and which is giving me lots of things to post to today (these past 2 weeks?) (but still all today) (this guy does this kind of thing every day, and I'm doing it just once and can't.)(what?))

Andy Kaufman is somebody I really, really wish wouldn't have died before I had a chance to get interested in. This guy's talent for being entertainly annoying seems to have been immense. Fantastical.

I forget what date this one's gotta be.

I stopped for a little while. I've given up, really.

still, I can pretend I haven't.

Days ago (minutes ago) (an hour ago) (not yet available) I may have self-prevented-myself from doing what I am telling myself, yet have yet to have told myself, to do. Namely, if I go and update my blogroll now then some days from now (days before now, now, then,) I'll look pretty dumb telling myself to fix that mess.

Part of the problem is that I haven't put a "blogroll this" link on the top of my browser thing on this computer.

My other computer is currently a paperweight. (And I want to be a paperback writer)
(paperback writer)
(paperback writer
writer
writer)
(yeah)

Last time i went to blogrolling the site was all fucked up. It's been looking ever since I started actually using it like something that nobody actually maintains, a sort of end-of-its-life... thingy. Man I don't have words when I'm rushing through uselessness.

On the aforementioned "Sorry," Rose suddenly sings an otherwise innocuous line ("But I don't want to do it") in some bizarre, quasi-Transylvanian accent, and I cannot begin to speculate as to why. I mean, one has to assume Axl thought about all of these individual choices a minimum of a thousand times over the past 15 years. Somewhere in Los Angles, there's gotta be 400 hours of DAT tape with nothing on it except multiple versions of the "Sorry" vocal. So why is this the one we finally hear? What finally made him decide, "You know, I've weighed all my options and all their potential consequences, and I'm going with the Mexican vampire accent. This is the vision I will embrace. But only on that one line! The rest of it will just be sung like a non-dead human." Often, I don't even care if his choices work or if they fail. I just want to know what Rose hoped they would do.

(here)

I wonder how long that link works.

I haven't heard the album yet. I haven't yet gotten past my deep horror that this album has actually, TRULY, without doubt, as far as I can make out, been released. Even without having heard any of the album I can say that I agree with a lot of what Klosterman says in that review, and that I disagree with other stuff. At any rate it's a pretty brilliant piece of rock criticism.

That quote up there is, to me, with the price of admission.

And, also: makes me really want to hear the album. Might even buy the damned thing, which sort of goes to one of the points he makes that I don't really agree with (in fact I don't even know if I understand it.) To whit:

For one thing, Chinese Democracy is (pretty much) the last Old Media album we'll ever contemplate in this context—it's the last album that will be marketed as a collection of autonomous-but-connected songs, the last album that will be absorbed as a static manifestation of who the band supposedly is, and the last album that will matter more as a physical object than as an Internet sound file.

I guess I could buy what he's saying (pun intended) based solely on the fact that he threw that word "marketed" in there. I don't know shit about how anybody's marketing albums, or how anybody's going to continue to do so or stop doing so. While he might be right, in spirit, about how most popular music will be ingested from now forward (and is being ingested already,) I really don't think there's any way to claim that nobody's going to making and distributing albums anymore.

But again, maybe I don't quite get his point. That last phrase, "the last album that will matter more as a physical object than as an Internet sound file," is maybe the real meat of what he's saying. In that case it's back to the marketing thing. But even then I wish he'd make his point in a different way, make it more clear. Seems like a very interesting discussion to have. But I'm not having time right now to do it myself.

In something like three weeks my family's going to be 33% larger than it is now. Is that right? Let's see.

3 + (3x1/3) = 3 + (3/3) = 3 + 1 = 4

There, see? Nobody calls me stupid without being right. (I nearly said "25%" larger. Boy wouldn't that be something.)

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That'd be something like 362 more posts. I'm already pretty tired of this. And, also, additionally, out of things to post.

Yet another non-starter?