October 2007
The Archives
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10.25.07hotel roomsI don't know why checking into a hotel room makes me feel very grown-up. I don't act all that grown up when I am in one. I leave the wet towels on the floor. Pillows usually end up scattered throughout the room. Maybe I don't feel like a grown-up when I am in a hotel room. Maybe I actually feel more like a kid. A room with no responsibilities! Make my bed? Are you kidding me? It is the one time you are allowed to be a complete and utter slob, ...
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10.17.07thunderstormsRight now, there are thunderstorms sweeping through Alabama. I remember sitting on the front porch swing as a kid when the storms would come in. The electric air would roar through and bend the tops of the trees. The smell was fresh and new. The sky was a deep, dark gray. The earth shook. I hoped that it would last forever.
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10.17.07swearingI've never really been a big swearer. I can count on two fingers the number of times I dropped the dreaded "F" bomb. The first slipped out after I made a minor error. I wasn't even upset, just surprised. The second involved a cockroach and I still feel no remorse over that one. I generally feel that one can be imaginative enough in language without resorting to the same four letter words used by everyone everywhere. So with me, I guess, it is a method of standing out that, like with all such methods, ...
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10.16.07thoughtlessly living our livesLiterally. I was thinking of something to write about. I started to write about The Copyeditor's Handbook which I bought as a result of its huge recommendation by Sarah. Shortly after flipping through it, I decided that grammar was a complete impediment to communication. Then there was nothing. I thought, "maybe I'll write some random opinion that I've developed." None came. No opinions, even. Then I realized I was thoughtlessly living my life. Not thoughtless in the sense that I've been careless or reckless (can one, in fact, be reckful?), but rather I ...
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10.13.07on being mormon in the entertainment industrySo, it isn't always easy to be Mormon in the industry that I am in. People are generally very respectful to me, but it is not uncommon to have long conversations go on around me about how organized religion is the opiate of the masses, etc. This tends to happen...a lot. A common thread is that people in organized religion are there because they don't want to think for themselves and like being told what is right and wrong. The artist mantra of "I don't need to be told how to think" gets tossed around quite ...