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Name: David
Country: United States
State: Minnesota
Metro: Minneapolis
Birthday: 6/15/1981
Gender: Male
Interests: Seeing something I've never seen before
Occupation: Business Solutions Development
Industry: Value Added Service (Payroll)
Message: message me
Member Since:
9/29/2004
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| A few weeks ago I decided that I would not say in one sentence what could be expounded into several paragraphs. For the last several months I have had some serious writer's block. Major themes have never been a problem for me, and have continued their ever steady flow. But without the ability to finish them, my plots have become backlogged. Soon, I began to notice a disturbing trend; I would intertwine a piece of one of these plots into my facebook status. This would cause a sort of release; the plot was now completed, finished in two short sentences. My opus was there for world to see and would last the next 30 hours until I met a drunken gymnast or found a great new band. Now this may not be the cause of my writer's block, but the exercise of expoundeding a simple thought has been a significant boon. A few minutes ago I changed my Facebook status to this: I saw a beaver this morning.
When what I wanted to say was this: I saw a beaver this morning. I'm fairly certain that this is the first time that I've ever seen a beaver (other than on television or on the zoological postcards i got from Time/Life as a kid; obviously you understand that this is not what I'm talking about). But there, on the east bank of Shingle Creek, waddling to the safety of the underbridge, was a beaver. Fantastic.
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| Wasn't it in Wayne's World, where the guitar shop had a "No Stairway to Heaven" policy. After tonight, I'm thinking of instituting a "No Big Yellow Taxi" policy at the Beat. Next band that plays it gets feedback until they stop. | | |
| Or Why Songs That Depress Me Vol. 8 will be so much better than Vol. 7 For 1 year, 5 days, 8 hours and 53 minutes I had such a friend. The response was always positive. Wanna go see a movie? Yeah, I'll be over in 20! There's this new restaurant I want to check out. Well, I've already had dinner, but what the heck. Hey, prayer meeting at so-and-so's, you coming? Absolutely! I've been looking for a reason to wear my new ephod. No situation was implausible, no plan was unsound, no time was too late; she took pride in being game. So much so, that if her dedication to availability wavered, you could easily guilt her into anything by taunting her lack of gameness. We met again the day before I moved from New Hope. She was looking for someone to work as a theatre teacher at a small Christian school in Forest Lake. It was a job that I was sorely under qualified for (though, that would be about right considering at the three small Christian schools in Minnesota that I've had a good deal of contact with, most of the teachers were sorely under qualified. This should be contrasted with my experience with small Christian schools in Ohio, where most of teachers were ridiculously overqualified). I do not know who filled that job, but the next day she helped me move to my Uptown apartment, and became my own personal welcoming committee. Coffee shops, movies, restaurants, kitsch stores, museums, theatres, parks and malls: we went to all sorts of places over the next few months. Because of her propensity towards availability she became my default friend. If I wasn't up to anything and wanted to be, she'd get a call and we'd figure something out. My favorite thing was Sunday Morning Brunch. We would go to different restaurants around 'town, and talk about ideas and stories and images, anything abstract, anything creative, anything of importance. In my life, I think there have only been two other people that I have shared such a strong synergy with. In spite of this or because of this, I’m not really sure which; ours was not a very complicated friendship. That is to say that there was no need to think about how we should act in front of the other. In 1 year, 5 days, 8 hours and 53 minutes she asked very little of me. If I would take that teaching job, which I could not If I would check out her church, which took me too long to do If I would come to beer club, which was fantastic If I would be on the board of her theatre company, which I would take a much more active role in If I would fall for her friend, and then she asked me not to To not hurt Whitney
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| Or Things I've Said that I Wish You Would Remember, but You Probably Won’t - Don't Panic Douglas Adams
- Be for something. There was a time in the past (read: in college) when we were all basically against everything. We learned this was silliness; there are plenty of things in the world not worth getting worked up about. But there are so many that never remember that there are things worthy of being for.
- Centralized health care isn't all it's cracked up to be
- To bring about change to you, an organization or anything, you must both love the thing and hate it. If you love something and do not hate it, you will be comfortable with how it is now, and not want it to change. If you hate and do not love it, you will not care if it changes. G. K. Chesterton paraphrased
- We are all the sum of our tears. Too few, and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow. Too many and the best of us is washed away. J. Michael Straczynski
- Emotion should lead to action. Not directly mind you. You should not, without thought, always act out based on how you feel, that is anarchy. But if you feel and do not act, it will become more and more difficult to act, and eventually more difficult to feel. C. S. Lewis paraphrased
- Don't assume that the entire situation is evident. No matter how 'flat' a person seems, they are more than a character, complex.
- Hope
- Listen to soft music loud Over the Rhine
- I'm a selfish bastard. But that one you will probably remember
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| Remember in the 90's, when the diet buzzwords were "No Fat" and "XX% Fat Free"? Ridiculous foods like Twinkees claimed to be health food because it was low in fat. Please, don't mind that there is nothing natural in this "food", that you're basically eating plastic, or that the caloric count is an insane 400 for a (disgusting) treat that you would have to eat 5 of before it had any effect on hunger. That's the problem with buzzwords, they are so easy to hide behind. Well here is the aught's addition to this ploy. Everyone wants to help the environment, and one of the largest depreciators of air quality is traffic. Because of this, hybrid cars have become very popular. Almost all car companies have them. Even trucks and SUVs are coming out with hybrid models. Well now Lexus has introduced a $121,000, 438-horsepower hybrid sedan, the '08 LS Hybrid. Unfortunately the Hybrid model has WORSE gas milage then the standard engine model. | | |
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