Pointless Announcements

I don't even drink coffee every day, and almost never more than a cup or two. I've got two down already this morning and considering more.

The best bloody mary I ever had was at a little place in Green Lake, Wisconsin called 'The Goose Blind'. Just the right amount of kick, great flavor, and they put a huge pickle spear in it. Good stuff.

 

Well, for starters, I didn't know at the time of posting whether it was actually a term people used. I riffed off of the concept of plunderphonics, which is the practice of taking existing music and making a new composition. Not quite like "sampling" that you get in hip-hop; it's deeper than that. The entire composition is plundered. Nothing is original except the presentation.

In poetry, an increasingly common type of composition is taking lines from existing poems (and even random sources, like the Internet)—say, one line from each source—and stringing them together to make a new poem. It's more or less a collage poem, but not necessarily in the concrete cut-and-paste sense. The composition is a collage on the textual level. The art is in finding interesting connections or narrative strings between the randomized lines.

There may be issues with copyright, but apparently there are guidelines one can follow to avoid charges of plagiarism or copyright infringement. You know, "fair use" and all that.

 

I spilled hot tea down one of my legs Wednesday night. I ended up with burns on my lower abdomen, my thigh, and my foot. Today I woke up to more blistering down my thigh--little tiny blisters in my hair follicles. It looks so weird.

 

Youch. Hopefully you have some aloe or something to put on it to help it heal?

 

Yeah, I have some burn gel and special bandages. It should be better in no time. Already today is a huge improvement over yesterday.

 

Someone please shoot me.

Out of the blue, after probably not hearing the song for almost 20 years, I started humming this to myself a few minutes ago.



I've obviously lost it and need to be put down.