I usually have a small notepad secreted somewhere about my person where I jot down phone numbers, book references, interesting quotes, and other things that I am otherwise liable to quickly forget. Scattered throughout the book will be little seeds of ideas for things to post about here. About half the time I follow up on it. About half the rest of the time I'll decide the idea is a dud. Very occasionally I'll decide that an idea is good but would be more effort to complete than I'm prepared to give. And the rest of the time I find the note at some later date and think to myself, "What the hell is that supposed to mean? I must have been smoking crack."
Sometimes I can look at a note and clearly remember the circumstances under which I wrote it - just not what the note actually signifies. Sometimes a note makes me think of something quite definite - but I'm pretty sure it's not what I meant myself to think of when I wrote it. Sometimes a note is truly mysterious - it's in my hand but I have no memory of it at all.
Here's a collection of extinct blog prompts from the last couple of years. It resembles the ravings of a madman, so I've chosen to arrange it visually to resemble poetry - the poetry of driftwood and lost balloons and old photos.
Muntries
Sealink!
Sealink!
favourite bowl
Thar she blows!
character "in" a book - from? of?
Greatest American Hero
Wolf Creek Cafe
Calendars and other people's dogs
egogram
Calendars and other people's dogs
egogram
Kit fox
itch! actual ants!
glasses with bizarre sideboards
Shadow puppet - doctor?
Sad second-hand stores
HOTKEYS = NERDS
CREATION - FRANKENSTEIN
David Bowie over 20 years
Body dysmorphic effect vs re-reading own writing
aqueous humour - watery joke?
visualizing blood vessels!
eating vs studying - good-bad or bad-good
gold injections!
stress reduction kit
only girls and Italians cook
presentation - ongoing fear
who wants a ride up?
SHOP ANGRY
tuning fork
BKA v DKA
chopping veggies - not dice!/cubed! chinese style
on screws
book cover/binder
concentrate on not reading things
awards for med school
a blob for you
psychic expo
smelling like chicken
towel - bee - cold - A-delta - alfalfa
lostradio - insulting people, standing in dog shit
Colonel Light's laser powers!
evil genius of Pat Rafter accumulating sinisterness
What's next?
Colonel Light's laser powers!
evil genius of Pat Rafter accumulating sinisterness
What's next?
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4 comments:
Why is the picture of a hippo?
Is that how you think of your sub-conscious?
I just wanted something murky and suggestive of my subconscious behemoths. So I did a google search for "murky subconscious behemoth" and found this picture of a murky subconscious behemoth so I thought I'd use it.
Whats up with the one titled "Shadow puppet - doctor?" oh and do you remember the riots in gothenburg?
A) If I knew what that one was about it wouldn't be on the list!
B) No I do not. I was very, very drunk.
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