Notes
Note: I have now included dates on individual pages, since some self-appointed authority has declared that blog
entries must be dated, or they aren't really part of a blog.
Day 78 - 7/31/2007
Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come...
-- Issac Watts
References to Spooneristic english muffins, time passage markings of wood rings, and Shelly Berman ("Left... left... no, other left").
I a-lion myself with the path of Patience, not that of Fortitude.
I whittled the word "anticip" from anticipate, but I pronounce it ANN-ti-sip.
I probably have DNA to rock in my chair at the same rhythm as my forebearers
(lower branches of my family tree). Tried to shape a face, ended up facing a shape.
Be nice to have a bass with a fretless finger board someday. since I march (away) to a different drummer.
Day 67 - 1/8/2007
My apologies to Retrotech, Inc of Fishers, NY,
a materials-handling technology company, for absconding with, in retrospect, the name of their company for this
autoschediastic neologism. Also a nod to HAK of retrotech.org,
essentially a mind-bloggling site. At least (as of this date) there is no entry for this word
in Wikipedia,
so I am "first in time, first in line". The reference to the
American Heritage Dictionary editors is an homage to their book, 100 Words Every Word Lover Should Know, and
the hmmm-a-pause I experienced in reading about "glossolalia". Don't bother looking for "Raised Floor Follies",
I made all that stuff up.
Day 66 - 1/7/2007
I know I am being très harsh here, but I am using "lie" in this context to be
not just the polar opposite of the truth ("Yes, I did mail that check"), but all
however-slight variations from spot-on reporting ("I must have gotton a hundred calls
today"). The process of diaretic regurgitation in blogs (as opposed to the "blogs on
a mission"), offers itself to a cognitive dissonance between unyielding honesty and
the rouge and eyeliner of presentability. "Does this lead to a new examination of the
motivation behind our redaction of the 'raw material' of our thoughts, our opinions,
if not of the actual playing out of events of our memory?", asked Tom, rhetorically.
Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin. We push, pull, and prod the clay of our own reality,
our "bust-a-rhyme" to be placed on the rocky shelf of our mounting ambitions.
"I blog, therefore I am [someody]", gussied up, sans warts, and, perhaps, with a bleached-out
identity.
Day 55 - 8/9/2006
Many references here, but I have to credit Firesign Theatre for the Nick
Dangerism, "hot kiss at the end of a wet fist". Big Muddy courtesy of
Pete Seeger. Bobby Vinton, Bob Dylan, Joe Dimmagio and King Kong were
also floating around my head.
Day 46 - 3/13/2006
Day 45 - 2/28/2006
Hypers are hyperlinks, clickable entries to other sites.
Hard-world is the physical reality world.
Timate (TIE-mate) is a slang term derived from intimate,
meaning: an intense secret that no one outside of the secret-keepers would ever care about anyway.
The big bus went by means he was drafted (riding a bicycle, a bus goes by and you get
sucked into its slipstream, or "drafted") into the Infantry. To be sifted is to be
blown up by an IED, so your remains had to be "sifted" out of the sand for burial. 'An is
Iran (as 'Aq is Iraq).
Day 44 - 2/26/2006
Day 43 - 2/23/2006
Howl was published fifty years ago, in 1956, and is considered a milestone for
the "Beat Movement" in literature and in society -- the term Beatniks
(inspired by Russia's Sputnik satellite in 1957, which started the US-USSR "Space Race") was given to
the rebellious jazz-listening, pot-smoking, bongo-drumming, goatee-wearing youth of the day. (They later
mutated to the Hippies and Freaks of the 60's.) Note that the early poetry readings of
the beat poets were known for their odd cadences -- giving emphasis to the "wrong" syllable in a word and pausing
in unexpected places. This influenced the singing style of Bob Dylan, the rantings of Gil Scott-Heron
("The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"), and later, Hip-Hop and Rap music. Sock-hops always seemed
to me as "innocence breaks" from the tension of the times. Jack Kerouac (Dharma Bums)
used to write with a continuous roll of paper through his typewriter. The 1989 Stock Market crash
drove many people to ruin. "Threatdown" reference courtesy of Steven Cobert.
Day 42 - 2/15/2006
Trying to image a Theme Park ride in twenty years or so, a la Firesign Theatre's I Think We're All
Bozos On This Bus. They will also spend time talking about how after the eyeballs and keyboards crawled
out of the slime, many other venomous life-forms evolved in the Blogoshere. Riemann surfaces are
(among other things) planes that coil like corkscrews.
Day 41 - 2/13/2006
Anybody want to check my math, be my guest. Will the Blogophere growth come grinding to a halt (which, of course,
it must) because of cyber counter-pressure, the development of a blog "predator", or (as I believe) because
governments step in to "regulate" them?
Day 40 - 2/2/2006
I was inspired for this blogdec by
this
story.
Day 39 - 1/28/2006
I don't want to [sic!]-en you with "I really meant that (to be amusing/clever/disorienting/etc.)", so
I avoid trying to "explain" everything. Trust me that any variation from usual spelling or an
"undictionaried" word is done (so far as I know) intentionally. So the mythical place
Terra Del Firma is really common terra firma, and word-clay is, well, word-play
(if you're underground), and groundlings were the people in the "cheap seats" for Shakespeare's
plays in Elizabethan times, for whom Will often lowered (as in "beneath the ground") his humor.
Note that the word "grouse" describes game birds (of the family Tetraonidae) as well as being
a verb for complaining. The term "gutter" means both a channel for draining streets and the white
space between the two opposing pages in a book. So you can make up for yourself what "gutter-grouse"
may mean as an adjective.
Day 38 - 1/17/2006
Coffee cup topology borrowed from Scientific American.
Connip derived from conniption. Mixadrome courtesy of Terence Parker.
Day 37 - 1/4/2006
Jim Capaldi was the drummer and co-writer of many songs with Steve Windwood of Traffic in 1971,
when the Traffic album (as they be called in them days) "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" was released.
"Gravitorius specificus" is Latin for specific gravity. Or should be. Peoria (as in "how will
it play in Peoria") is part of the map often referred to as "flyover country". Apologies to
Shakespeare and Lazarus in my smudging of thy words. Nattering Chatterer first appeared in
Day 5. Prose - Pro = se (or "see"). (Be glad I didn't try to work in the Latin "legal" phrase
pro se). Usually it's the duck that comes down (risky reference to the post-Groucho
generation), but I am enjoying "Eats, Shoots & Leaves", and so I feel free to comma-tate. As for "screed",
look it up. But I digest...
Day 36 - 12/22/2005
Be afraid, be very afraid. Www.4814152342.com is only one of many, many sites that explore the mysteries of
these numbers that play a part in the Lost TV series. (They're still called "series", aren't they?)
Hmm... Numbers 23:23 in the Bible is "What Hath God Wrought". Coincidence? I don't think so. I was doing
some reading about early Earth history and the movement of Tectonic plates (weren't they the Germanic tribes that
fought the Romans in the second century, B.C.?) and the image seemed appropriate. "Rage, rage against the dying
of the Blog"
Day 35 - 12/12/2005
A poem by Henry Gibson, Laugh-in, 1969: "Marshall McLuhan, whacha doin'?"
Day 34 - 12/10/2005
Day 33 - 11/24/2005
Day 32 - 11/17/2005
Day 31 - 11/7/2005
30-'Dec Retrospect - 10/23/2005
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Day 30 - 10/21/2005
I feel like I saw a play once, in a dream, called "The Princess Godfather Shrugged". Well, maybe not.
Day 29 - 10/20/2005
Day 28 - 10/17/2005
"... the golden apples of the sun" - Yeats
Day 27 - 9/29/2005
Sometimes it's just better to make up a word from nothing than to misuse a word already in play.
Day 26 - 9/26/2005
Zendenies = denizens. And yes, I know the difference between message (information) and massage (backrub).
Marshall McLuhan once wrote a book called, The Medium is the Massage, using the same pun. Similarly,
I know that there are two phrases de rigeuer and rigor mortis, so don't bug me about those. I
did mean portend "to serve as a warning". "Feed your head" are the last word of "Go ask Alice" by the Jefferson
Airplane (a graceful yet slick band of the sixties and beyond).
Day 25 - 9/18/2005
Day 24 - 9/18/2005
A second 'dec on why I am here. Google apparently doesn't consider me a blog site, and
"blog criticism" yields 571 entries, none of which are mine. Frankly, most of the entries
listed relate to critisism on blogs of things in the external world, or other blogs specifically,
not of blogs in general, as I am trying to do.
Day 23 - 8/23/2005
A pun on raison d'etre.
Day 22 - 8/14/2005
Day 21 - 8/8/2005
Day 20 - 7/27/2005
I don't know why I have the words from a Graham Edge (Moody Blues) spoken poem running
through my head as I wrote this:
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight
Red is gray, and yellow, white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion...
I felt it was important to portray the word-squares as tinted shades of gray
rather than colors, since words we have read have been, with rare exceptions,
black characters on a white background. The words in a blogdec should present as
a mosaic, with the contrast between meaning-heavy words (or emotion-heavy words
which can side-swipe you) and the light, connecting, or "grounding in simplicity" words
providing an image of the blogdec (if you don't look too close).
Day 19 - 6/29/2005
Most of these words are Merle Travis', not mine. I'll give Jack Bruce (Cream) credit for
embedding "dawn surprise" in my memories.
Day 18 - 6/1/2005
Agreed, no blog criticism here... just catching my breath for the next stretch.
Day 17 - 5/24/2005
I confess that in writing "thin shell", what was running through my mind was
the Firesign Theatre lines "...thin, thin, thin, sixteen millimeter shell...
and bags of slaw ('gimme two'), sorry, only one bag per customer". Confession
II, I originally ended this blogdec with "the hand that cradles the rock". This
is, of course, too obvious a Spoonerism not to be well-entrenched in our culture
(such as Rita Mae Brown's book of poetry of that title published back in 1971).
Day 16 - 5/20/2005
Day 15 - 5/13/2005
Day 14 - 5/9/2005
Concept, cadence, and kookiness inspired by the "Ranger Andy" theme song.
Day 13 - 5/2/2005
Day 12 - 4/23/2005
A blonnet tribute to lace majority. In essence, "I came, I saw, I tripped".
Day 11 - 4/17/2005
Day 10 - 4/9/2005
The section "falling at once..." in italics is a quote. Hints for the source of the
quote are in italics elsewhere. "Soporpa" is a term for dyslexics. For those who
remember Tom Swifties: "Someone has stripped my car", said Tom tirelessly.
Day 9 - 3/30/2005
The quoted segments are from "No Time to Live", from Traffic's album Traffic,
penned by Steve Winwood when he was 20 years old.
Day 8 - 3/27/2005
Acknowledgements to Kris Kristofferson, Bruce Springsteen, and A. Traditional.
A brave lady (don't call her a squaw) can be viewed at www.dooce.com.
Day 7 - 3/20/2005
Day 6 - 3/18/2005
The brilliant daffodil, Narcissus pseudonarcissus, graced many a parlor
in days gone by. The more socially dangerous aspect to parlors is reflected in
the old saying, "'Come into my parlor', said the spider to the fly."
Day 5 - 3/17/2005
Day 4 - 3/15/2005
Absolutely I stole the gist of these quotes from the Tom Waits song, Fumblin'
with the Blues, from the album The Heart of Saturday Night. Theodore Rozak
and Harold Bloom make for bumpy reading.
Day 3 - 3/13/2005
As Terance once wrote, "Nullum est iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius".
My cute neologism of "bloggerheads" supports thousands of hits on Google, and
is a website in the U.K. (www.bloggerheads.com) with anti-Blair and anti-Bush
political agendas and even has merchandise. And "Blobicus", a riff on that slave
guy's name, is a web site (www.blobicus.com) supporting right-wing religious causes.
My apologies to both those sites, I knew not what did I. Of course,
excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta.
Day 2 - 3/11/2005
Day 1 - 3/8/2005
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