Welcome to my new blog. I have moved here to avoid the invasive features of xanga, since it got to the point where I couldn't even retreat to my subscriptions page without being chased by hordes of vacuous plugs submitted by people desperate for comments. I won't give the "featured post" rant again, but I might mention to anyone who cares that having a blog does not automatically promote you into the "intelligentsia" (if the class even exists any more, which I sometimes doubt). Not that I have a rapier wit myself, but I know hypocrisy when I see it.
Anyway... you're probably wondering about the title at the top of the page. Well, I usually hem and haw over the title to anything, as such things are very important to me, but this time I got frustrated. All I wanted was a little space to write, and it irritated me that I had to give it some kind of name. I had literally been sitting here for twenty minutes when a G.K. Chesterton quote popped into my head: "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." And I thought -- well, I'm a poet (occasionally). And I sure as heck have never written a poem about cheese. Thus a title was born.
It is slightly awkward, I admit, because I am actually quite fond of cheese (especially weird cheese with fuzzy green spots). But since I don't often find myself monologuing about the stuff, I decided I could get away with it. And from now on I will observe a strict verbal fast from cheese of all kinds, except when it is essential to the continuity of my narrative that I make some allusion to the role it plays in the events of my life story.
Now I must retire, as I have a busy, bureaucratic day tomorrow (must apply for my passport and acquire some other documentation), and it is almost midnight. I may post something serious before the year is out, but that remains to be seen.
4 comments:
Do you take requests?
Please write about when you are going to Austria and how this came about! I will be a frequent commentator, which I hope you find to be a Good Thing and not a Bad Thing.
I love cheese.
Frequent commentators are always welcome, and requests as well! I cannot agree with your preference for a certain unnamed dairy product, however, as to do so would be to break my oath of silence.
I understand about the oath of silence, but in the privacy of your room, I recommend that you type "silent on the subject of cheese" into Google and see what comes up -- there are some other Chesterton enthusiasts out there. Now, on to a different topic - a friend of mine has thrown down a gauntlet that I am gazing at with fear and a sort of panicky excitment. What say you to this?:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/
Ahh, the notorious NaNoWriMo! I never seem to remember that it's coming until the last few days of October. I've always wanted to do it, but none of my plots have ever been good enough. If I can get one at least skeletally together before some Nov. 1st in the future, I definitely intend to try it.
That said, if you have a story you believe in, I say run with it! Writing furiously for four weeks sounds like a blast to me.
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