He's methodical, detail-oriented and a
He's methodical, detail-oriented and a little bit obsessive, but in a good way.My kind of commute...
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Awesome.
On an unrelated note: the more I think about it, the less I like the plz! in comment plz!.
Posted by: nedlog | July 4, 2002 10:10 PM
What should it say?
Posted by: sudama | July 5, 2002 9:12 AM
plz?
Posted by: david | July 5, 2002 9:29 AM
It's definitely kind of aggressive, but I think it's kind of cute, too. Like a little cartoon comment man "PLZ! PLZ!" And I hate seeing comments: 0.
Posted by: david | July 5, 2002 9:33 AM
Also, I *love* randomWalks.
Posted by: david | July 5, 2002 9:33 AM
Ditto that. As for plz!, couldn't it just say "comment"? I think the thing that's grating is the plz! after plz! after plz!. If there were only one or two it wouldn't be so bad.
Posted by: nedlog | July 5, 2002 9:43 AM
'Plz' always reminds me of something a 14-year-old would write in an email, along with lol and a smiley face. 2 wit, 'plz' is not good 4 ur spelling habits.
Posted by: V.S. | July 5, 2002 10:36 AM
"Plz" is a spelling that has some currency among rW editors -- currency which is obscure to the rest of the reading public.
Posted by: nedlog | July 5, 2002 10:19 PM
1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr
own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language
sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in
mind
22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture
better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr
morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language
& knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American
form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under,
crazier the better
29. You're a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled
in Heaven
Posted by: sudama | July 5, 2002 11:09 PM
Jack, yr still a genius . . .
Personally I'm a fan of the 'plz.' It has a certain urgency.
Posted by: judlew | July 5, 2002 11:33 PM
In fact, Brookman is not unique. At least a couple dozen other people climb into kayaks, runabouts and other small boats -- rather than SUVs, ferries or Metro buses -- for their daily commute to downtown Portland from Casco Bay islands and a couple of coastal towns on the mainland.
This isn't the guy I was looking for. NPR ran a piece maybe a year or two ago about a Seattle-area scientist who commuted from his lake (or river)-side apartment to his water-side office everyday by canoe.
I also like the plz.
Posted by: Camilla loves Gonzo | July 5, 2002 11:49 PM
Maybe the plz bothers me only because it has an urgency I can rarely meet, given my laziness. I can't withstand the scrutiny of the plz!
Posted by: nedlog | July 6, 2002 10:35 AM
I'm somewhat indifferent, but I think the plz grew on me. I'm inclined to bring it back. Let proper capitalization be my concession to propriety. Plz is fun! Anyone want to offer closing arguments?
The other option of course is to make it a blog, like tagline. You think I'm kidding.
Posted by: sudama | July 6, 2002 10:38 AM
I like plz!, not Plz!, not a blog. rW is too slow on modem connections and another include in every post would knock us out!
Posted by: david | July 6, 2002 10:45 AM
It would just be one include, in the function.
Posted by: sudama | July 6, 2002 11:27 AM
plz is so, so...i don't know...obligatory, you know?
and, sorry to offend, but I don't like kerouac, ginsberg. but i like baraka. he's good.
it's the misogyny i don't like. but then, why would i like baraka? he tends to play with the female form as a site for racial contestations.
troubling. but a better poet.
Posted by: doug 'foot in mouth' harbinger | July 6, 2002 11:30 AM
i like it. plz don't let it go!
Posted by: lilliput | July 7, 2002 8:23 AM
I love Kerouac and Ginsberg. Sure the misogyny is a problem (though I'm not sure right off where Ginsberg is guilty of that -- but I'm no expert, maybe you can tell me?) but I don't think it dismisses their other achievements.
Posted by: nedlog | July 8, 2002 12:46 PM