But having been complimented so thoroughly by Solnushka, I turn my weary, bloodshot, slightly maniacal gaze to the Thinking Blogger award meme nonetheless. Once you are tapped, you nominate five more blogs. I’m still getting over the fact that someone out there thinks I think – as opposed to experience a series of mundane physicalContinue reading “Thinking is overrated”
Monthly Archives: March 2007
You died for three days straight
You died, and you died, and then you died some more. But that was later. Before, you liked to drink something called “Tarkhoun” – green like absinthe, and sweet like candy. Your nineteen-year old boyfriend burned up in a fighter plane in WWII. That day you said goodbye to him on the platform, when youContinue reading “You died for three days straight”
How “300” Spartans Drop-Kicked Me Down the Rabbit Hole
Modern-day storytellers are circumscribed by reductivism. Adopt a classical method – and you’re out of touch, a coward channeling a bunch of unfashionable dead white guys. Adopt a classical method and innovative technology – you are not merely out of touch, you are also a corporate whore. This is the problem with much of theContinue reading “How “300” Spartans Drop-Kicked Me Down the Rabbit Hole”
“Why do you like to objectify yourself?”
“Because it involves straying outside myself.” (Sounds about as subtle as “When you cheated girl, My heart bleeded girl” by Mr. Timberlake – but it’s true)
They walk in and out of my line of sight
… The characters, that is. I go out to people-watch even when I’m feeling anti-social for weeks on end – because otherwise, I would never, ever get anything done. Even if I’m sitting next to a high school girls’ volleyball team, while writing about marauding space-monkeys; I need the gabbing volleyball players to focus andContinue reading “They walk in and out of my line of sight”
Natalia A. 