So I didn't really get up to much yesterday. Went for a walk with Madeline down past the exciting 7th and thrilling 5th avenues, in Brooklyn, to what we believed would be the proportionally even MORE exciting/thrilling, if the decreasing numbers were supposed to represent some kind of night-life hierarchy, 3rd and 1st avenues. What we found was in fact a decrepit industrial neighborhood with lots of broken glass and corrugated rusty steel doors and concrete walls topped with barbed wire. Fun fun.
Now I am willing to accept that maybe 3rd ave. is an aberration, a bizarre anomalous impoverished backwater separating the glorious 5th avenue from the resplendent land of beauty and free mocha lattes that could, potentially, be 1st avenue. Maybe 3rd ave. is the New York equivalent of a moat or a wall of fire, across and through which only the most brave, courageous, and worthy can pass. I have, in fact, no good empirical evidence to refute this hypothesis.
Nevertheless, being the pathetic, weak, and easily-muggable coward that I am, and considering that I don't even really like mocha lattes, I think I'll just keep my distance and permit 1st avenue to remain the mythological New York Eldorado that it most assuredly is.
In other news, I've changed the blog settings so anyone can post comments without having to become a blogger member. Because I know I wouldn't post any comments for precisely that reason. So I look forward to hearing from y'all!
By the way, I hope you like the title today! I think it's pretty good (in being verbose and pretentious as all hell), and would make for a sufficiently ridiculous bombastic short story - which I may in fact write, one day!
In all truth, though, I have really been thinking a fair bit about what I can do with this blog, and especially since at the moment I don't really have anything exciting/interesting to talk about in the way of wanderings-about, at least for the past couple days. But, in some ways sadly, and other ways not at all, it really is no stretch that this blog is probably one of the more exciting things I have involved myself with in the immediate past.
On the other hand, a kind of self-referential "meta-blog" blog entry does sort of strike me as the intellectual equivalent of a 6th grade English assignment entitled "Why I had Nothing to Write About". But damnit, it's such an interesting topic!
And since that is my espoused topic for today, I hereby announce!... that I'm thinking of creating a couple of parallel blog sites: one for political/theoretical ramblings, and another, probably infinitely more interesting one for stories/fiction and general extemporization on more esoteric albeit artistic subjects (like Dragons!). I think probably all these blogs will be cross-/inter-referenced. Because that's trendy and cool.
In general, however, I'm still learning about this format, and about myself as a writer. I don't really know what "The Blog" is capable of... and forget about any kind of reasonable self-awareness about what I can do, artistically. I really don't have the slightest clue. Really, the entire substance of my plan is just to ramble on and hope it remains interesting and readable.
In any case, for now I'm heading downtown to meet Dan for a game of go. How quaint!
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