Category: ruminations
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Criticism is Like Cancer
Ken Woolridge (AND) Criticism, like cancer, grows rather naturally and is fully dependent on its host. It’s growth is predicated upon a relatively healthy host and a benign environment in which it can grow unimpeded. Lest we spend too long developing that story, the important way that criticism is like cancer is that it comes […]
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Considering Conspiracy Theories
Daquella manera I’ve been thinking recently about conspiracy theories, and I have a theory about them. A couple in fact. I should also note that I’ve done no research, so these theories about the theories may be either well-known and verified or obscure and unlikely. It seems to me that there are two primary reasons […]
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“And Parody Myself”
I’ve become a parody of myself. I think it started–the day I was born is too easy an answer–on August 16, 2007. That was the fateful day when I made a posting schedule for this site. Then I made the mistake of following said schedule. Looking back on what I wrote that day, I find […]
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If You Get the Chance…
Ctd 2005 If you get the chance, be sure to watch the snow falling on a mid-March evening. It may be unexpected, and it may be delaying the spring you’ve been anticipating. You should still make sure that you look out the window as the sun you haven’t seen all day sets. Be sure to […]
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The First Draft
Syma Sees (AND) Finding Forrester was one of those movies. The kind that I enjoy, but can easily see why so many others don’t. It’s the kind of movie light on logic or reality, and heavy on the emotion. And Sean Connery’s character is, well, odd. However you or I feel about it, there’s one […]
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Thinking About Thinking
CMP73 I noticed recently that I do this rather strange thing. I’ll think thoughts, and then I’ll restate them again as if I were speaking them. Even when I’m not speaking. Even when I’m the only one around. It’s as if I have to “say” everything in order for me to have really thought it. […]
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The Coming Spring
Powi It happened yesterday for the first time. For the first time in months I recognized that winter was fading and spring was coming. It’s not coming quick or earlier than usual, but it’s coming and the first signs were there. The mid-morning walk offered some clues. It’s been getting warmer out. Recently, a hat […]
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Of Ideas and Word Counts
MousyBoyWithGlasses (CC-ASA) I think that every person at every time has only so many words they can spend on an idea before they end up repeating themselves. A quick example: consider the stereotypical young male bachelor. When he’s single, the number of words he can or will spend on the topic of romantic love probably […]
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Be Your Own Protagonist
jquiz I was walking past a bus stop about a year ago, and there in front of the bench (which was all this bus stop consisted of) was a blue graffito. I saw that it was blue, that it was clearly made with a stencil, and I kept walking. When I actually realized what I’d […]
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Writing is Useful
This is the second part of a two-part argument that I seem to be constantly having with myself. The first half, Writing is Wasteful, was posted on Tuesday. bookish in north park (CC) The idea that all writings a copy of a copy of a copy is easy and convenient. And because of that, we […]