Showing posts with label shel silverstein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shel silverstein. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

if we had hinges on our heads there wouldn't be no sin, 'cause we could take the bad stuff out and leave the good stuff in.

i am staring at a pair of metal skizors as i write this. they look like this:
circlllle space circlllle
teddy bear handshake
spinning wool smooth perfect v
reflective parallelogram
empty oreo
bent line
point

and that is something that makes sense only in my mind. for example, take this picture:


i would describe it this way:
lineszwoosh
fooooooooliage
rarwww!!!
swellbubble
ssharrp
bumpbumpbumpbumpbumpbumpbumpbumpbumpbumpetc
killer moons.

killer moons. that would be a good name for a band. the killer moons. anyway, my point was, i want you to paint this picture with words the way i just did. please do so in the comments section. thank you.

i just did something i have never done before; i made a blog post with nothing in mind to write. i think it turned out okay. ah, well.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

if you're a pretender, come sit by my fire.

in a previous post, i showed a kind of intense, serious attitude toward the value of creature comfort vs good deeds. my basic stance was that it doesn't matter if you yourself feel good in anyway, as long as youre doing good things to help other people, because the masses matter a lot more than just one person.
i would like to issue a retraction.
yes, it's important to be a quote-unquote "good person". but it's also important to be whimsical and magical and funny and happy and have your own unique perspective on life. otherwise, we just become robots serving one another. like my mom said- "you don't want to be a puritan" i think that perhaps this is where the concept of communism went wrong-it works great to give everyone their share, but you also need room for people to branch out and be different and independent, and to start their own things.
and, in the spirit of flight, i will include a recommendation for something enjoyable-
although it is a little childish, the book zorgamazoo , which is a fantastical fantasy written entirely in verse, is a whimsical delight and i love it.