Random Thoughts or Whatever

[SolderIron]

Found in web. Which Army Corp was this?

 

[DeadRock]

I wish I am smarter then, than I was now....thankfully, the present is out of time...

 

[Mister Pig]

G

 

[init4fun]

G

H

 

[DeadRock]

Q

 

[nailer]

T/A

 

[Mystic]

Do you ever wonder why you are at the centre of all your problems?

 

[DeadRock]

Do you ever wonder why you are at the centre of all your problems?

...only during commercial breaks.

 

[nailer]

Do you ever wonder why you are at the centre of all your problems?

No, being that they're mine. Not that I have but a few and are these few really problems if they're in the process of being delt with?

 

[Mystic]

The DEA is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the War on Drugs.

1973: U.S. drug overdose death rate: 3.0 per 100,000
2021: U.S. drug overdose death rate: 32.4 per 100,000

So it goes.

 

[Mystic]

Over the last 15 years, 6,253 cars have crashed into 7-Eleven storefronts in the U.S. ... that's an average of 1.14 per day.

 

[Mystic]

A ground-breaking new study by Princeton scholars Ann Case and Angus Deaton found that life expectancy for the college-educated in 2021 was eight-and-a-half years longer than for the two-thirds of American adults without a bachelor’s degree, more than triple the 1992 gap of about two-and-a-half years.

 

[Mystic]

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. Maybe I wanted to find more rigorous ways of thinking. We’re talking now about the earliest writing I did and about the power of language to counteract the wallow of late adolescence, to define things, define muddled experiences in economical ways. Let’s not forget that writing is convenient. It requires the simplest tools. A young writer sees that with words and sentences on a piece of paper that costs less than a penny he can place himself more clearly in the world. Words on a page, that’s all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.

- Don DeLillo

 

[DeadRock]

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. Maybe I wanted to find more rigorous ways of thinking. We’re talking now about the earliest writing I did and about the power of language to counteract the wallow of late adolescence, to define things, define muddled experiences in economical ways. Let’s not forget that writing is convenient. It requires the simplest tools. A young writer sees that with words and sentences on a piece of paper that costs less than a penny he can place himself more clearly in the world. Words on a page, that’s all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.

- Don DeLillo

Love this...I could have hit the heart-googly-eyeballs emoji....but it looks weird...

 

[nailer]

The DEA is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the War on Drugs.

1973: U.S. drug overdose death rate: 3.0 per 100,000
2021: U.S. drug overdose death rate: 32.4 per 100,000

So it goes.

Drugs fight back and are winning. Or is this a reflection on what our culture has become and people trying to escape it ...

 

[Pio1980]

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. Maybe I wanted to find more rigorous ways of thinking. We’re talking now about the earliest writing I did and about the power of language to counteract the wallow of late adolescence, to define things, define muddled experiences in economical ways. Let’s not forget that writing is convenient. It requires the simplest tools. A young writer sees that with words and sentences on a piece of paper that costs less than a penny he can place himself more clearly in the world. Words on a page, that’s all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.

- Don DeLillo

That's generally how I post, often with frequent revisions until cold-read clear and finalized.

 

[nailer]

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. Maybe I wanted to find more rigorous ways of thinking. We’re talking now about the earliest writing I did and about the power of language to counteract the wallow of late adolescence, to define things, define muddled experiences in economical ways. Let’s not forget that writing is convenient. It requires the simplest tools. A young writer sees that with words and sentences on a piece of paper that costs less than a penny he can place himself more clearly in the world. Words on a page, that’s all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.

- Don DeLillo

Then there's the demon known as writer's block to contend with.

 

[DeadRock]

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

 

[noogies]

The thing about leafblowers is, they only know one direction: not here.

 

[init4fun]

The thing about leafblowers is, they only know one direction: not here.

Leafblowers........ Reminds me of a quote from a Shakespeare tale, , , , "Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" .....