Friday, April 14, 2006

curiosity killed the cat


The other day, a friend told me that I ask more questions than anyone she's ever met. I suppose, then, then it's all the more appropriate that this blog is all about being curious. I may end up dead like the cat, but at least I'll know that I kicked the bucket in valiant pursuit of knowledge. There's just SO MUCH out there to soak up, it overwhelms me. Ivory tower intellectual I am not, but I love to read and I love to meet people who are so much smarter than I'll ever be and don't want to pop me one when I make them talk to me about life.

My latest learning includes random facts about the Graham family, of Washington Post fame. More specifically, I am reading a bio of Katharine Graham--what a firecracker. I can only hope to be so fiesty and firey through the end of my days.

Things I Have Learned, Part I. I think this whole exercise is going to be my written interpretation of found art-- that is, useless information and/or everything totally not pertinent to anything directly that I come across in my travels, strewn throughout as it may be, and artfully assembled in one location to be examined, contemplated, harumphed with one eyebrow raised, and then muttered about as total crap someone just wasted brain cells on as the world carried on with the next item on its to do list. Eh, at least I didn't suck $20 out of you with delusions of a museum-quality display.

And, because DC is already part of this post and well, why not drag politics into the ring -- www.redblueproject.org -- check out the commercials.

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

still more curious

A bit of lag time between this and the first post has passed, largely because I have been trying to figure out why I've decided to virtually spraypaint all over Al Gore's brilliant creation, the Internet.

After more than a little time went by, I realized that it doesn't really matter, so here I am on the easebackin.

Thursday, February 09, 2006

the inaugural...

I think that the best way to start this blog off is by connecting it to some writing that I actually do find relevant and that also makes me think about the way life should be, among other things. That, and my respect for the Midwest managed to increase after discovering Garrison Keillor, which I'll be the first to say is more than a little difficult to do: http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/deskofgk/2005/old_scout/.

I guess as long as I haven't come up with my idea for the Next Great American Novel, then I have to be content discovering other people who either have or who have managed to produce something in words that I find worthwhile. Or maybe I'll just go the Keillor route and start up an old-time Yankee version of what he's done with his radio show. I think it could be quite the production, in a good old-fashioned sort of way. Fireside Chat, the remix.