It's Like a Brickwall

Last week our computer shit the bed. The logic board is gone, but thankfully the hard drive is fine - otherwise I would be absolutly going insane right now since everything is on it. But this means the strides I had been making in my writing, accomplishing an average of 1200 words a day, have come to a standstill. We won't be able to buy a new computer for a couple of more weeks, so in the meantime I can't get much done. Oh well.

It's Funny Because It's True

Fucking Yankees, Reports Nation

2900

I wrote 2900 words today! I am feeling pretty good about myself right now.

I Cannot Wait for this Movie

Sunday in the Park

Hopper

Spent part of my day at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and this is some of what I saw:
















I'll comment on Hopper's stuff later when I'm a little more awake. I do have to say that as beautiful as these images are, one needs to see the paintings in person to witness how utterly amazing they really are.

It's Funny Because It's True

From The Onion.

In Case Anyone Forgot:

1. Smack it up.
2. Flip it.
3. Rub it down.

How Often Does a Writing Professor Make Page Six?

Robert Olen Butler may be a literary snob, but when you read this you can't help but feel for the guy...until he rationalizes that his wife is leaving him for Ted Turner as a result of her molestation when she was a child.

Collecting States Update

Oregon and Ohio are now off the list. That leaves 12 states that are not represented - and yes, Wyoming is still one of them. How difficult is it to get the attention of this one state? Apparently, very difficult. Any suggestions?

Where I Was Sunday Night

I'm serious when I say I was probably the youngest person in Fenway. Most of these people were reliving their...mid-forties. I'm glad that some still had a taste for pot - it was a nice contact high. Made me hungry for Dunkin' Donuts; and since it is Boston, thankfully there is a DnD every ten feet - including one right in Fenway. Convenient.

Great concert and it was really cool to see the three of them together on the stage. I've seen Sting twice before, but this was different. But they did show their age if only in the tempo of the songs. Gone is the frantic punk attitude they had when they played their famous set at the Orpheum in 1979. The moodier influences all three have collected since the band broke up in 1984 was very evident. It didn't help that WBCN played the '79 gig a few times during the weekend.

But it was interesting to think about who was in the audience. There were people like me, Gen-Xers who embraced any good music in the '80s (which was in short supply), there were the younger people who were dragged there by parents; and then there were those parents - Baby Boomers grasping onto those memories of the early 1980's. It's funny to think that all of these people (myself included) were willing to pay these concert prices to see a band they wished they could have seen back in 1979. BTW - I was 5 when The Police played that Orpheum set. Yes, it is true (and quite evident) that the band members have matured and the mastery of their instruments is at a peak; but these reunion tours, whether it's Genesis or Smashing Pumpkins (who I really really want to see when they play the Orpheum in October), are really about the past. No one is going to convince me that The Rolling Stones are better now than they were during their Sticky Fingers days.

If You're Into It

A lovely love song.