Monday, January 07, 2019
Shrug Department
-What did I just HEAR?
-Nothing.
-No! A question so profound
as to be totally unanswerable!
as to be totally unanswerable!
-Nobody answers anything today!
Labels: answer, conversation, lack of answers, profound, question, style
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
The Art of Never Arriving
served him,
if tediously.
Presently
retired,
he plays new
games with
grandchildren,
iron-ruled.
Labels: artistic style, games, literary style, style, time
Sunday, April 30, 2017
She Noted
Carlos never spoke
just after. Lull.
When he did so,
was instructional.
Labels: habit, instruct, note, style
Thursday, May 01, 2014
Movements
-The New Incoherence just about swept most musicians out.
And now with Ragged Incoherence...?
-It all finished me, and the group.
-They...glue rags together before each performance!
-Clever enough, so they can flip around here and there and
show their little things.
-Rather prodigious in the case of Mickey-Mel-Mookie, my daughter's favorite. And each instrument, too, becomes a laugh. They pass them hand to hand. And in the performance we witnessed, all converged for a laser-slashed finale on
one drum-set, obliterating it in a frenzy.
-Yeah? Well there's still real music elsewhere!
-And you wish to represent it by teaching “Intro” at this obscure
junior college?
-An ambassador!
-Well, there are already PhDs in The Incoherences, and you just have the bachelor's. But you studied with eminent classical persons, and performed worldwide. At any rate, I'll get you before the committee. Don't be surprised if you’re bombarded with anagrams. DKM is Deaf Kraut Music, after Beethoven. MM is Metronome in Molasses--what they call Sinatra, Beatles, Ella Fitzgerald etc. JOM equals Jerking Off in Mirrors, or Jazz. HC means Hick Central, or Country. Many more coined relatively recently, but you'll be up for them, I'm sure.
-We always got warnings, but never thought sheer ignorance would
take over.
-You're one to help lead the counterrevolution. I'm done! With teaching, family, and committee work...and nerves permanently on edge with the traffic shrieks of Ragged Incoherence!
Labels: Beatles, chaos, Ella, incoherence, jazz, Music, musical revolution, Sinatra, style, taste
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Non-definitive Non-guide To Punctuation
Comma Creature
-When he expired, did he take his dead commas
with him?
-One would hope.
-He really sprinkled 'em around!
-Not sprinkled. Each one with a rule,
however picayune.
-A cloud of Victorian dust just vacated
this office.
-Thank God for that!
-Isaac Babel says a well-placed comma can stab
the heart.
-We're not into stabbing hearts here. Or any other
creative pursuits, really.
-All of it's defunct now, anyway. Ninety percent of
everything is email.
-The literary equivalent of not giving a shit.
Labels: comma, email, Isaac Babel, office, punctuation, style
Saturday, October 03, 2009
My Hat
Bucket thing, keeping brutal
Florida sun off my literal
red neck. Wag busdriver
cracks “What dumpster
you dig that outa?” But
guy in Winn-Dixie blurts
“What a great hat!” It’s
bleached and near-
ly shapeless. Doesn’t
resemble Mastroianni’s
wingy-dark lid in 8 ½,
a film seeking to raise
Director’s Block
to more culturally
revered Writer’s.
I hear Ed G Robinson
yelling “Block, my ass!
What the fuck they paying
your precious ass for?”
Art compels vulgarity.
Labels: director's block, style, writer's block
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Good Christ Henry James
you do complicate! Clauses drifting in
oceanic sentence might reach port
to rendezvous with betters, equals,
or lessers. Such texture, ser-
iously, undertakes to mirror
human subtleties. Hey! Not
that far from tails, & just do
the best we can! Aims most-
ly bare, laying niceties, sage
Henry, on as con.
you do complicate! Clauses drifting in
oceanic sentence might reach port
to rendezvous with betters, equals,
or lessers. Such texture, ser-
iously, undertakes to mirror
human subtleties. Hey! Not
that far from tails, & just do
the best we can! Aims most-
ly bare, laying niceties, sage
Henry, on as con.
Labels: Henry James, style
