Compulsively Aimless

From Bottom Dog Press, A Midwestern Heart, my first book of poetry. 

                  I'm continuing my never ending pointless exercise to generate band names. Today, I'm repurposing grammatical terms and fonts. Some ideas in the grammar category: Subordinate Clauses Third Person Diphthongs  The Elipses  Idioms Personal Pronouns Indirect Objects Past Participles Prepositions Subjective Case Passive Voice Past Perfect Infinitives Em Dashes With Fonts, its a target rich environment and I couldn't make up my mind so I had to restrict my choices to a small sample: Arial Black Chalkdusters Trebuchets Comic Sans Bold Italics ALL CAPS Also, if you haven't seen the genius of Elle Cordova's videos on fonts. There are a must. Random bonus name: Les Majeste Form a band and take a name. Goodbye for now. s s ttps://x.com/ellerhymes/status/1751280764023701939

  One thing I enjoy about a physical book versus a digital version is that the book can share its own story. I recently finished, Wind in this Sahara by R.V.C. Bodley purchased for one dollar at a thrift store in Alexandria, Virginia. It’s the story of an Englishman, between the world wars, who decides to live among the bedouin tribes of north Africa for seven years, apparently on the advice of TE Lawrence.    The book itself was printed in the United States in1944 and, because it was during a war time in America, required lighter paper, and the text was more condensed on each page to save paper. On its inner pages is an inscription that it had been donated as a gift to the Atchison, Kansas public library by Mr. and Mrs. John Breaky (sp?) and the librarian's notation in pencil assigning a Dewey Decimal designation. Although the library card is no longer in the pocket and there's telling how many times it had been borrow out, it leaves you to wonder how many readers...

 

Looking back on my reading for 2023, if I find any themes for the year they would be time, memory, and nostalgia. A few of the quotes and observations I've written down from this year.     Like watches ticking on the wrists of dead soldiers. --Jean Cocteau   If you live long enough, the process of memory ruthless condenses your experiences consigning much to oblivion. --Robert Kaplan, Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age   The alleys at night intimate chambers of of just remembered dreams and childhood -- Robert Kaplan, Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age   Journey taken in youth inform the rest of our lives -- they are markers of of change in us as well as the rest of the world --WSJ, April ?, 2023   The lifetime that I've been lent in idleness I've spent      --fragment of a poem that I can't recall attribution.  I had become my ancestors --The Growing Seasons, Samuel Hynes ...

  I have several pages of fictional band names and songs. (A project that continues without direction or purpose.) Here's another installment. Awl Da Tyme Cherub Moolah Cake Bakers Band Name or Microbrew? Night Deposit Dying Cloud Saturday on Mars German Haircut Country Killing   Legal Bands   I saw these as actual band names earlier this year posted on a bulletin boards at the George Washington Law School. International Shoe Attractive Nuisance I've not seen them perform but if they're still around I have a couple of song titles for them: Frolic and Detour Writ of Replevin

                        1. Do you ever make a to-go cup of coffee for your drive to get coffee?   2. Have you written more odes than haikus to coffee?   3. Do you ever think about planning a vacation to Java?   4. Do you drink coffee while sitting on the toilet?   5. Have you named any of your children Mocha or Frappuccino?