I'm packing for Utah with the usual misery and dread and some other inexplicable malady thrown into the mix. I still have clothing scattered all over the floor. I must make decisions and throw it all into a bag. What is wrong with me? I badly need a handler. I have become overwhelmingly catatonic.
The digital world's kill off of analog is nearing completion. Kodak is bankrupt. Now that I've had Frankencamera--The Liberator--constructed, there will be no film to slide into it. I need to find new, less expensive tricks.
Here's a picture of the girl for me, someone who knows how to keep all the balls in the air with a smile. What a person like that couldn't do?
The line will be dead here for the next few days. I'll ask Q to provide more while I'm away. I'll try to post from Salt Lake and Park City, but who knows? And perhaps I will not miss a beat. It is possible. Everything/Nothing is.
I'll let you know.
Don't break a leg!
ReplyDeleteYes, what Rhonda says.
ReplyDeleteI am very worried, such an old fellow skiing...!
XXX
May I suggest that you carry a moonstone and an amethyst crystal for safe travel?
ReplyDeleteRegarding yesterdays photo: the dart pointing directly at the viewer creates a feng shui "poison arrow" of Sha Chi (killing or attacking energy).
May I point out that energy can not be "killed." According to the first law of thermodynamics, energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change forms.
ReplyDeleteI vote for less drinking and more writing for the blog on your trip!
ReplyDeleteHangovers and skiing that's a real bad combination!
As Sean just said: all the sick energy will not dissapear, just move trough you.
And if your Feng Shui is bad, maybe exit via a leg fracture...
Really Selavy.
Nadja, every time energy changes forms some heat is given off.
ReplyDeleteThat's the second law of thermodynamics.
At least the old fellow will not be cold then, with his broken leg.
ReplyDeleteThat's very reassuring.
No, Q, but it can be "killing". It's not an issue of thermodynamics but rather reading comprehension. I don't think I have a stone to recommend for that...
ReplyDeleteLet me state it unequivocally: (Sha Chi) = (killing energy). Energy itself is not created, and it is not destroyed, merely directed in a harmful fashion.
No, Anita, it is purely an issue of humorlessness and superstition.
ReplyDeleteIt sure is killing me, unequivocally.
I was going to answer "surely, but not fast enough" but that would be unkind.
ReplyDeleteQ, maybe you will outgrow your humorlessness with time.
Well, with some moonstone and amethyst to aid me on my journey, you just never know....
ReplyDeleteBut do you see... in a closed system, where energy cycles, like in a blog "comments page," chaos is the result. It's called "entropy" and it neatly wraps up our lesson on thermodynamics, being the third implacable law.
ANH, you will never need to outgrow your rocks, eventually you will just share their spiritual plane.
I was waiting for the third law!
ReplyDeleteYes, yes... It all starts to fall in place now...
Now be good children!
It's not nice to quarrel when the old fellow is not home.
Selavy, we need you here, bring some order in the chaos, see?!
Be back soon!
Pfff... This is no fun.
ReplyDeleteI really hoped I would get an avalanche of extra laws on my head.
Some swearing maybe.
Since my Feng Shui is always messed up.
And, Selavy would get his mailbox full.
Punish him a bit for leaving us in a void.
You are boring people....
:-P
Shit avalanche...
Rock on.
ReplyDeleteSelavy,I was reading the letters of John Cheever the other day and have come to the conclusion that your writing is far superior. (Cheever's only advantage was his ability to drop famous names, and he was mean to librarians and to cats.)
ReplyDeleteNadja was right on about the shit avalanche. My two little sentences from the other day begat a corresponding number of nonsense posts elsewhere. Is this the result of lack of sleep and postpartum celibacy, or indicative of a more serious personalty disorder?
On your next vacation, please consider leaving us moderated by X, or Y, or even Z and not that other unfortunate letter. Looking forward to some film reviews, perhaps, from your talented and unpoisoned pen.
I'm so sorry about that.
ReplyDeleteI actually wanted to write:
"Shit, avalanche..."
And I am getting worried more and more.
What will we do if Selavy got hit by one!?
I am desparate already.
And it seems I am not the only one...
See what you do to us, Selavy?
Aaahhhh!
ANH,
ReplyDeleteSince you seem to be such a careful reader then I encourage you to go back and examine your own writing.
You suggest carrying rocks for safety, I make a joke about thermodynamics and energy cycles, you accuse me of being ignorant, and that there are no stones to aid with that, I respond that the superstitious are also humorless, but that it's "killing" me, you then suggest that perhaps it is killing me "but not fast enough," I continue with the thermodynamics joke as a counter-point to your faith in rock power, you then follow up with an assertion of celibacy, insomnia or perhaps a deeper issue.
I would assume that it is a much deeper issue, the term I would suggest would be ignorance, and that term might suit both of us for the needs of this conversation. Time will tell. The next time somebody makes a joke about actual known and identifiable energy cycles in response to your assertion that rocks carry magical powers then maybe it would be a chance to pull out some of your magnanimity crystals and become a better person. Just don't expect everybody to share your prejudices, but learn to laugh a little at yourself. The rocks certainly must have a lesson on that, no?
-S
ANH,
ReplyDeleteGoing back and reading your responses you suggest that I am both ignorant and deserving of death, one said "jokingly," one not.
What response did you really expect from me? I, at least, had the humanity to not wish or suggest death upon you.
New-age spiritualists never amaze me, never surprise me. They always see the evil in the world around them.
-Sean