(construction has ripped up the streets and sidewalks like a gutted fish forcing you to navigate these narrow temporary corridors fenced in on all sides. It's like being stuck inside Thunderdome.) Frustration with getting anything more than that parenthetical news bulletin reminds me of one of my favorite Dorothy Parker quotes:
“I hate writing, I love having written.”
Not so much block as complete desolation, I can't think of anything or how to say it if I do think of it. I start to wonder if English is really my first language. Would I have better luck in Urdu?
Besides, what is blogging anymore but a quaint and dying hobby much like tatting? One by one, most of the blogs I used to read that, like mine, were first person accounts of how the blogger got along with their maddening (fill in the blank: spouse, job, addiction, cat, whatev) have all pretty much slipped beneath the waves, leaving me and a few other ranting souls, wearing our tinfoil hats and carrying on. Having a blog used to be hip, and then it was trite, and now it's sort of musty.
So I decided to redecorate, hence the new background and header photo and other snappy touches. Also, looking up the Dorothy Parker quote (in order to get it actually correct. I'm pissy that way. I also don't use "comprised" when I mean "composed." Pissy.) I found a quote of hers that was unfamiliar to me, and which I've decided to use as my new cri de coeur:
“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
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| Who ya gonna call when you need snipers removed from your tastefully decorated crime scene? SWAT BUSTERS! |
Well, I like your new look and your writing. We few who persevere must carry regardless of the vagaries of fad and fashion. How else will anyone remember this low age in which we find ourselves?
ReplyDeleteWe happy few, we band of bloggers.
DeleteI'm tatting my tits as I read this.
DeleteI like what you've done to the place, but I need to call in a bomb threat so that Swat Buster can come to my office!
ReplyDeleteWho knew the Village People had branched out?
Deletethis redecorating looks like you spent a fortune!
ReplyDeleteOh, this old thing?
DeleteGuilty. I'm afraid I got weary from writing about how Old Hollywood got along with their maddening (fill in the blank: spouse, job, addiction, cat, whatev). But when I see a new post on here (and Muscato's) I still squeal....like the little girl I once was.
ReplyDeleteps - it looks cute in here.
You're still a little girl to me.
DeleteMs. Parker was also very wise about the vagaries of love. My favorite:
ReplyDeleteOh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
That is, hands down, my favorite and the only poem I can quote by memory.
DeleteIf we're in a "Dotty-fest", perhaps most appropriate might be:
ReplyDelete"Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgement."
I love your blog. It is near the top of my reading list alongside luminaries such as Muscato, TJB, Thombeau and MJ. Strange bedfellows indeed.
And the makeover is fab, too! Dotty has a word or three on that subject too: "Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.”
Jx
A motto for life if ever there were one.
DeleteI, for one, still read your blog and would be sad if it no longer existed.
ReplyDeleteFor what that's worth.
xoSMJ
Why, that's very kind of you, Thank you.
DeleteGoodness....somehow I found myself here after searching "Urdu Porn"....
ReplyDeleteAgain.
Isn't that serendipitous?
Urdu porners gonna porn.
DeleteAnd you know I love that picture of you and R man.
ReplyDeleteoh, thanks, me too.
DeleteAcid stains you
ReplyDeleteRivers are damp
Razors pain you
Drugs cause cramp
Guns aren't lawful
Nooses give
Gas smells awful
You might as well live.
My personal favorite DP poem. Also, were you to stop blogging, I'd insist you start emailing me again. Consider the consequences.
The verdict is still out on the background décor.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like one of those body part painters got loose at Benjamin Moore.
Bitchiness is not normal, it's just common.
Deletekabuki's favorite part of the new look is the ass on that swat guy. kudos
ReplyDeleteOh the paint is barely dry.
ReplyDeleteTi Urdu ko ni lorun o, idi ti ko gbiyanju awọn Yoruba?
હું તમારા બ્લોગ વાંચવા ગમે છે.
Goodness the commentators on here a re a veritable who's who of people and their blogs I admire and follow. I hope all of them persevere(and re-decorate) as you have.Which makes me think, Mine could use a little sprucing up.....
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