Shards

The three stages of brain explosion, 
set to lyrics from Kanye's Graduation

I. The brain explodes. 
My brain explodes. Over the course of a few seconds, it is jarred and slapped into shards of confusion and criticism at the sight of "Kanye West," "honorary doctorate," and "School of the Art Institute" in the same sentence.

La-da-da da-da da-da da-da da-da da
Blap!
-Drunk and Hot Girls, Graduation

As per the news this morning, Yeezy will receive an honorary doctorate at SAIC's commencement ceremony May 11. There are a lot of different opinions lolly-gagging around the web, from an alum's notion that Kanye's "cockiness may in fact be his greatest work of art" to a loss of respect for the art school to a brilliant and deeply funny challenge from Chicago-based artist Rosalia Marzullo asking Kanye to allow that his PhD be baked into a cake.

My initial reaction probably comes from the fact that I loved (not at first, but definitely later) going to SAIC for a curious thing called arts journalism. My writing aesthetic and questionable view that art should be "pretty" and should be "pretty moving" were twisted into a more open and loving embrace of the weirdness of art becoming imperative lessons, riotous shouts for justice, and/or hilarious ways to look at the endearing derpy-ness of humanity. So, I did brush shoulders with some of the same people from whom Kanye will be handed this honor, and initially, I was appalled that this school--its lessons and location having changed my life for the better--would honor someone that SO OFFENDS with his abrasive swagger.

II. Shard rager commences.
Seconds become hours in the brain shard world, and the shards enter with the breeze into something I equate to a weird, racy rager I attended once in the early Chicago morning. Shards upon shards discovering the funky chicken, two-step, break dance, Step Up-esque slo-mo in the orange glow of the street lights flowing in through the upstairs window. Shards confused and appalled and blissful at the same time.

Do you even remember what the issue is?

You just tryin' to find where the tissue is
You can still be who you wish you is
It ain't happen yet and that's what the intuition is

- I Wonder, Graduation

Speaking of his abrasive swagger, can you deny that the mystification caused by Kanye's lyrics, performances, "artist" persona, and imagined private life makes him one of the most interesting people in the world? Maybe his rudeness is making us think about how we shouldn't be rude. His coddling of his own cockiness can really make one think about how being cocky about how you're better than his cockiness is, in and of itself, pretty cocky. Is your judgment of his holier than thou-ness making you come off as holier than thou?

When I am offended by something, it brings about confusing though exciting, rave-lit colorful questions. In this particular SO OFFENDED state, I'm on the dance floor and I realize a few things. I don't actually know who Kanye is. I'm mostly writing this post amidst the examination that there is more to him (there is always more to a person) than his cocky rhetoric, Grammy award acceptance speech interruptions, holier than thou (Yeezus) attitude, and the apparent fashion-mind-control over his wife. The dichotomy between offense and an astute awareness of one's own limits of thought and judgment can be a welcoming environment for pre-dance mind stretches and important discussion about the living, breathing giant that is today's shit-faced society.

III. Welcome home.
The rager doesn't last forever. If it did, we'd all be mush all the time. Shard hours revert back to minutes, revert back to seconds, revert back to whole human brains taking a walk home.

Maybe you, do you remember when?
Fireworks at Lake Michigan
Oh, now I'm coming home again
Maybe you, do you remember when?
Fireworks at Lake Michigan
Oh, now I'm coming home again
Maybe we can start again
- Homecoming, Graduation

Yes, he's ridiculous, he's cocky, he OFFENDS. Now he's Dr. Kanye, Dr. OFFEND. Let's maybe put our disdain for Kanye, all our righteousness about his righteousness, our now mushy but reunited brain cells, our sucky dance moves into that cake. We should probably mix in a few chill pills, too.

There's one very important dance move I pull out once in a while to annihilate the hate for the haters and the targets, which I do credit in part to my Master Jedi studies via the School of the Art Institute of Chicago:

The mind should blow, should search, should be appalled, should question, should doubt, should comply before drop kicking itself out of complacency, should continue to think of what not just the performer, the cockiness, the high art world, the piece of paper saying you graduated has to say, but also what the human him/herself is saying about art, artistic expression, artistry, art writing, art slamming, art dancing, art performing, art hidden-messaging, art that's not art, art whatever-it-is.

The coolest part about my brain exploding and redefining its shape is that each time the pieces are reunited, a clear message appears in my renewed consciousness: Love them, anyone, and love them anyway, said not-Yeezus.

...

Now that you have your brain and your wits about you, feel free to start at the beginning again, substituting every "shard" for "shart." Oh, I couldn't resist!

Have fun,
Lindsey

True Colors

It's funny how people (me) feel like they have to wrap up a whole year on a blog or on Facebook or Twitter in order to start one fresh, as if they have to wrap up all the lovely things from 2014 in order to present lovelier selves in 2015...as if to get closer to the perfect soul mate or perfect job or perfect happiness or more perfect version of his/her (my)self, a more perfect version of the world. Perfect, no. But colorful, hopefully.

As I was gathering the photos for this third annual Year of Light in photographs (you can read about some terrific chili metaphors from 2012's Year of Light here and the "You only live once"-themed 2013 post here), I thought about how, with each colored second of the year, we realize the vast but swift and kaleidoscopic nature of time, but we also forget to be grateful for and loving toward the chromaticity of each and every personality in the world. And, at this time of year, I also remember that one can't have colored seconds without light and you can't have light without darkness. But even in the darkness, we know the color is there. And, alas! The canvas is wiped clean each day, amIright!

Cheers to remembering, thanking God for, and sharing the not-always-perfect, technicolor moments and people in your life. Here are some colorful moments of mine from 2014. I hope you had a bright, if not more psychedelic, year!

JANUARY

Who: Handsomer Jaws

Where: Sokol Underground

Notable color: the vibrant magenta of solid, wickedly 

well-written music and friendship (The writers being that of 

Handsomer Jaws (music) and God (life), if you know what I mean)

Photo courtesy of Jessica

Who: Jessica

Where: Mavericks hockey game

Notable color(s): earthy greens and browns that define 

a down-to-earth, kindred spirited, giggly friendship, where both 

parties love standing up and cheering for the most awesome of sports

FEBRUARY

Who: The love of my parents

Where: My place of work

Notable color: The black typography of happy, 

encouraging, brilliant all caps, for when one 

finally gets her Master's degree in the mail

Photo courtesy of Leah

Who: Old friends and new

Where: Winter Park, CO

Notable color: The powdery white of the masterful combination 

of the majestic mountain and purely good times

MARCH

Who: Chad, a friend from college

Where: Facebook timeline

Notable color: A deep red that can signify 

much love for a friend in need of prayers

Who: Me, hanging with myself

Where: Indigo Bridge Books

Notable color: The cream-colored graininess of homemade paper 

made to house words of wisdom and hung for all to read 

and read again

APRIL

Who: The creators and designers at ustwo, who dreamed up 

Monument Valley, one of the best-designed interactive stories with 

which I've ever interacted (It's funny that an app can be so 

relatable and educational. Who would have thought?)

Where: My iPhone 4

Notable color: The child-like purple that surrounds a 

journey to self-discovery, artful storytelling, and freedom. 

Check it out.

Who: Easter eggs of 2014

Where: At my parent's home - always my home, too

Notable color: The bright yellow that reminds me of how little 

I was when my Mom and I first started this Easter tradition. 

Also, the brightness of hope and salvation all year long

MAY, part une

Who: Jenny

Where: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Notable color(s): The classic blacks and whites momentizing 

(I made that word up just now) two classy girls, 

whose friendship has, thank the Lord, emerged in the 

last few years to reveal two minds that can so often read each 

other, it's amazeballs

Who: Stephanie, running in the Lincoln Marathon

Where: Lincoln marathon tracker, my computer

Notable color: The electric green of achievement after 

completing 26 miles! I'm still amazed by all my friends that were able to 

complete the half and full marathon. Way to go - you know who you are!

MAY, part deux

Who: A bottle of mango and orange juice from Pret A Manger

Where: Downtown Chicago

Notable color: The fuzzy-filtered, glowy orange of 

being welcomed back to a beloved city to see my favorite band with friends,

 revisit my favorite pieces in the Art Institute, and hug dearly missed grad school friends; 

a reminder of how one can become a little more chill when 

they welcome an open mind and open heart in the big city and elsewhere

Who: The Y Guy

Where: Cooper YMCA, Lincoln, NE

Notable color: The bright red of my cheeks that match these 

shoes when I wear the accompanying mascot (sweat) suit to prance around 

and get kicked and punched by 6-year-olds 

(in a very hilarious, non-painful way)

JUNE

Who: Grandpa

Where: Perkins Pavilion, Hastings, NE

Notable color: The hopeful taupe of rehabilitation and 

a sense of humor after enduring a series of seizures and the 

coming days of transitioning into a nursing home

Who: Harry Styles figurine

Where: My freezer

Notable color: The chocolate brown of Harry's swoon-worthy, plastic locks 

of flowing hair just before he gave me the cold shoulder after this 

photo, because someone hid him in my freezer, and I didn't find him for weeks. 

I have since forgiven him for his coolness.

JULY

Who: Collin and Lisa

Where: Outside of Gothenburg, NE

Notable color: The cranberry purple-red of our fun-colored 20s, 

and the color of the porta-potties that symbolizes the laughter and shenanigans 

of this night. In other news, JASON AND ERIN ARE MARRIED!

Who: The L7 Weenies

Where: Union College 49ers Fields

Notable color: The peachy-rose hues of the sunset on a balmy summer night, 

after playing softball with friends. For more on the one game we won, read here.

AUGUST

Who: My name in a published book

Where: The University of Nebraska Press

Notable color: The orange cover of The Wheeling Year by Ted Kooser, 

one of the authors we work with and one who I greatly admire. It was a little surreal 

and very exciting to typeset one of his books full of innovative and lovely 

home-grown poetry. I have also made some wonderful friends at this place of work.

Who: Dirt track racecar drivers

Where: Junction Motor Speedway, McCool Junction, NE

Notable color: The green-brown of the flying dirt coming off the dirt track, 

a place where I got to witness the gear-head culture and jokey, 

hard-working, good-natured banter that surrounds the racetrack. 

A hobby my Dad has been in love with since I was 5

SEPTEMBER

Who: Nebraska sky

Where: Lincoln, NE

Notable color(s): tipsy pastel pinks, oranges, and blue on a cool night just as 

the summer is folding into fall; the first time I look up at the Lincoln 

skyline and realize how much the city has surprised me this year

Who: My brother's miniatures

Where: My brother's house

Notable color(s): The classic, kind primary colors of my 

brother's steady painter's hand and unfailing work ethic

OCTOBER, part une

Who: Collin, Timothy, and Ali

Where: Blue Sushi Saki Grill, Lincoln, NE

Notable color: The burnt orange-red of the net that caught all of our sushi; 

walrus friends + sushi nights = boatloads of fun

Who: My Mom

Where: Helgoth's Pumpkin Patch, St. Libori, NE

Notable color: The golden corn yellow of the warmth and fun that 

is our Mother-daughterness. This day involved sliding together 

down the giant slide, hitting our bums hard the ground below, 

and laughing just as hard like little girls who are best friends.

OCTOBER, part deux

Who: Adam

Where: The Railyard, Lincoln, NE

Notable color: Kansas City Royals blue. Even though they lost, 

sports will always be integral to the human race. Also, friendship lives on.

Who: Renni and another Adam

Where: Carol Joy Holling Camp on Halloween

Notable color: The forever purple aura that surrounds my 

friend and former co-worker, Renni. Brony is awesome, too.

NOVEMBER

Who: Sisters, sisters. Never were there such devoted sisters

Where: Weller Auditorium, Concordia University

Notable color(s): There are so many colors that define the brightness 

and beauty of these sisters. Also, my best friend is beaming there on the left, 

and she is the closest thing to a sister that I have.

 Who: My apartment

Where: Lincoln, NE

Notable color(s): The crisp reds, oranges, and yellows hugging the 

outside of the place I've lived for over a year now. I've grown quite attached 

to it and its character, while many similarly warm 

events have taken place inside.

DECEMBER, part une

Who: College galpals

Where: St. John Lutheran Church, Seward, NE

Notable color(s): The many colors of friendship (Remember that Disney Channel Original Movie?!) 

and laughter that has surrounded our times together.

Who: Scooby-Doo cupcake

Where: My place

Notable color: Scooby-Doo brown, a reminder of the polite little boy who gave me a 

cupcake for helping him during his birthday party at the Y climbing wall. 

He loves Scooby, and so do I. There is hope for the future yet.

DECEMBER, part deux

Who: Friends

Where: My apartment during a Super Chill Christmas Party

Notable color(s): The funny brown tints of irony, because this party 

was extremely fun, but everyone in this photo looks extremely bored.

Who: My Goddaughter, Ashlynn

Where: My parents' house, Christmas day

Notable color(s): The complimentary reds and greens of giggles and of 

Christmastime family love and togetherness, despite a few curve balls this year.

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"Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as  snow ; 

though they are red as crimson, they shall be like  wool ." 

- Isaiah 1:18

HAPPY  NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOURS!

Pep talk: If your heart be flyin'

Our hearts do not actually hold the shape of a heart. They don't actually fly away from us. They don't actually break into a million pieces after we've been broken. Beats might flutter, but the organ certainly doesn't. Then why do we feel things from the heart? Why has the heart shape become a symbol of love? Why not a star or a spleen or a hand? Okay, definitely not a spleen. And okay, I guess the blood pumps faster from, go figure, the heart, when our body reacts to certain surprising or exciting hiccups in the universe.

But alas, since when does it have to "break?" Since some throw-up-in-your-mouth-a-little-bit poet decided it should be so? Here's my proposal: stop saying the heart is breaking. Start saying the heart is still beating. If it's still flying, it's still beating.

I know. The ambiguity of this post is killing me, too, but the beat goes on. *laughs*

Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. 

- Psalm 37:4

Endorphin Ditty

I'm the coach of a coed softball team, and WE WON TODAY! I also get to play on the team, which gives me all the feels, but in a very non-sappy, intensely awe-struck way -- Do you ever think about the pieces of sports? The good vibrations of the pieces, like sticks and spheres, white bags and soles; the sail and stretch of the body across the earth. The unlimited limits of our bodies' humility on a field, court, floor, track, road, alleyway, driveway, diamond, backyard.

Anyway, this little ditty was written a while back, but it applies to the shape of my mood, one that showers me with good endorphins. Fresh and clean, now. And here they are in writing.

I cannot fully describe to you the reflex mode I succumb to, the diamond-shaped, dirt zone I am in, the agility-perceptive-super power I feel when I play softball. When I meet the ball with a big stick, sending it sailing. When I see people doing the same and grinning about it. When I run in a circle touching white bags with my toes. When I stop a neon light of a ball with my whole body. When I tear up the whole of my left shin, putting it under risk of such scraping, stinging, needling pain - gravel biting under the skin - because I'm so intensely ready, even wanting, to slice into third base with my leg, to feel alive at the birth of pain, to be safe. I am so blissfully happy, scrappy, playing softball. Gazing at my friends, spitting out encouragements like it's my dream job. A part of who I am resurfaces, and who better to share it with than good friends? And we won. Thank you God for coed softball.

SPORTS!! Get out and do stuff.

Love,
Lindsey

flip flop, hip hop, drip drop, clip clop

I have truly failed this writing-every-Tuesday thing. I mean, it's Wednesday, and it's been weeks and weeks. But I'm still here! (existential shout out)

Speaking of shout outs, I've been thinking a lot recently, actually for quite a few years - since I began studying art and writing about art, really - about the performative nature of us humans. Stick with me here. I'll try not to go all crazy philosoraptor on you. Just a few thoughts about Shia LeBeouf, metamodernist, from Lindsey, Christian and existentialist.

I'm really into pop culture, particularly the phenomena of mainstream and celebrity and how the two relate to the world. And you probably already know about Shia LeBeouf and his seemingly bombastic plagiarism-apology stunts via paper bags and skywriting and performance art. There's also a guide to the apparent decline of Shia Labeouf if you want full Huffpost coverage of how he went from Louis to loony, so they say.

Obviously, the interweb has been TOW UP about all of this, with reactions from the idiotic-at-best Perez Hilton website - Shia LaBeouf's #IAMSORRY Performance Art Was Infiltrated By Some Dude With A Camera & The Result Is As Awkward As A Penis Cam!! - to Fox News declaring him "super strange" to Buzzfeed stating the obvious: how awkward this all has gotten. And us, deciding if it (and his performance art, or whatever) is meaningless, just plain silly or the topic of mind-shaping, regular conversation.

First, let's explore this metamodernist business. Some of my favorites in cinema and television are dubbed metamodernist. Wes Anderson; Dan Harmon (writer/creator of Community, you may have heard of it); and Comedy Bang! Bang! So keep those in mind as we move into what the heck metamodernism means. According to Metamodernist Manifesto by Shia Labeouf, we move forward to knowledge and understanding of, well, life through the oscillation between wanting universal truths and knowing there is subjectivity that sways between hope and doubt, building and deconstruction, and, in my opinion, a person and their actions and a person and their intentions. As Shia supposedly puts it, the movement between the two positions propels the world into action. What this action is I don't know, and it's probably subjective, ha. So many people think his recent behavior is just weird. I think it's brilliant because of the educational stir it's created.

Here's one question: why is weird so weird, and is it weirder when an actor or artist does it so visibly? Weird is relatively "different" than the norm, but this depends on what your normal reality is. I mean, Miley's reality is totally different than yours, I'm hoping. I find it weirder when what's weird is instantaneously decided by bias (*cough* the media) or ignorance and/or lack of knowledge. I'm guilty of submitting to all three.

A few days ago, James Franco stepped in with an op-ed in the New York Times about Shia's recent performance art exhibit. He made a few interesting points.

Though Mr. LaBeouf apologized on Twitter, conceding that he had "neglected to follow proper accreditation," it turned out that the apology itself appropriated someone else's writing. Was that clever or pathological?
[...]
Any artist, regardless of his field, can experience distance between his true self and his public persona. But because film actors typically experience fame in greater measure, our personas can feel at the mercy of forces far beyond our control.

It might sound a little like a whine or a plea for empathy, but who would we be if we didn't try to understand? I suppose you wouldn't be metamodernist, but I guess you might not be empathetic, which is so often a prominent characteristic of idiocy. And here's where peeps are like, "WTF Lindsey. These people are ACTORS. They make MILLIONS of dollars. They CHOOSE to be in the public eye. Why should we care about their woes or apologies or performance art when they have MILLIONS and go to A-list parties and get a front row seat at the best shows and GET ARRESTED OR PLAGIARIZE WITHOUT LOSING THEIR CAREER and drink booze and party with Meryl Streep?

All valid points. But I can't help thinking, each night before I fall asleep, that every human being also has to fall asleep and feel the weight of their day, flicker open their eyes and get ready for work the next day - put on a face and hunker down to make a living. Not to say that there isn't a divide in how easy it might be to fall asleep in the comfort of one's own cash, but there's always a price. You've heard this, but you know it's true! My dad always says, "everybody sleeps."

Existentialism rears it's little head and tells us about the philosophy that begins with not just the thinking subject but the HUMAN subject, an acting, feeling, living human that needs sleep. Maybe Shia needs some sleep.

No, I don't know Shia LaBeouf the human, but I might know a little about Shia the thinking subject (in public sight), if only for his comic genius on Even Stevens and his transition to adult(film)hood in Nymphomaniac.

Maybe all this existential questioning and metamodernism pressure is really starting to visibly (it's always been there, just a little less visible) cave in on our culture via the dastardly interweb, where the young and lime lit have one or more of many things befall them. A few being:

1. The opportunity to write a New York frickin' Times article of concern about a fellow actors performance art and/or Hollywood mental breakdown.
2. A need for sexual/drug-related/other-things-related rebellion to make their public images completely bonkers so everyone knows they are living outside the box (literally and figuratively).
3. A loss of all mental capacity due to stalkers that take lots of pictures.
4. Punching people that stalk you everyday so people can continue to criticize your every move at the supermarket.
5. Performance art.

Participating in this call and response is a kind of critique, a way to show up the media by allowing their oversize responses to essentially trivial actions to reveal the emptiness of their raison d'etre. Believe me, this game of peek-a-boo can be very addictive.

Mr. LaBeouf has been acting since he was a child, and often an actor's need to tear down the public creation that constrains him occurs during the transition from young man to adult. I think Mr. LaBeouf's project, if it is a project, is a worthy one. I just hope that he is careful not to use up all the good will he has gained as an actor in order to show us that he is an artist.

Not to lift up Shia or James or the New York Times, for that matter, but it really gets me to thinking about how I relate this back to that thing I mentioned earlier, my experience of the world and how I interact with it. I critique things everyday by way of acting. Not in the same way. I use multiple devices to cover up the touchy-feelies or my reactions to criticism. I'm probably using some of them right now as I type this. You've felt like a performer, right? Like at prom when you were forced to wear a dress and cakey makeup or wear a suit that made you sweat bullets on the dance floor, making the gym smell like...gym. No? Well, consider what equates to the media in your life. What gets you all filtered up?

And now you're like, Lindsey, just let it go. I'm just writing, boo. We'll never know it all, what with the wish-wash of this metamodernism. And we want to know and be known, an existentialist, an individual. We want to be heard and loved while our minds are twisted to and fro. And I'm saying now, if Shia the plagiarist or you, neither greater or less than anyone else, walked into this room, I wouldn't discount the person if s/he needed love. Call me crazy, but you and I know that humanity is what's really tow up. That doesn't mean that philosoraptor here can't say all the haters need a chill pill. And some universal truth:

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as Christ God forgave you. - Ephesians 4:32

LOVE.

Tuesday Teaser: Potatoes (it's weirder than last week)

There are some things I wish it was okay to say to the person you want to date but can't because it's just, you can't. Like talk some sort of gibberish about potatoes but still be on the same page and not appear weird and not appear obsessed with something like potatoes. Here's a monologue I've had with myself and my ideal potato-lover.

Do you like potatoes? I think potatoes are sexy and yum. Let's eat potatoes. I was driving, flying home from work today, thinking about buying grape tomatoes. Do you ever dream that you're on a boat, flying through cornfields? I really want to kiss you in a cornfield, but nothing rhymes with cornfield. So, sorry, we can't do that, because I can't write a poem about it. I should stop writing poetry then. Just kidding, I made you laugh. We can just settle for my back porch, because I have a hobbit door back there. We can laugh about it and pretend to be hobbits and miss those days when it was okay to pretend to be hobbits. Do you ever feel so small that you could slip right through the crack of my window where the cold air comes in? It freezes you before you make it here. Maybe that's not going to work. I don't want you to feel small. You're the biggest thing in the world to me right now, and I don't care that you can't fit through by back door. No, you're not fat. You're heart is SO FAT. Does my dirty cornflower blond hair bother you? Do you want it to be brighter, cleaner, softer, leaner? I can make that happen. Remember when you called that one time you didn't know how to write something important down? I was twirling my hair the whole time. I hope you wrote something down. Don't feel down. Get you a pick-me-up. Pick me up with your biceps, that'd be magical, don't you think? Your smarty girl, artsy, trying-to-be-hipster. What if I were to ever call you mister? Would that bother you, because people have these weird complexes where they don't want to be treated proper but instead in a more creative but sometimes toxic way. Kind of how the notion of the original hipster has been so tainted. I don't want that. And here you're letting me talk to myself without listening. As if you were listening to music you only think and say you listen to. Let's listen to Drake. He sings about good girls. Do you think he means it? I fancy myself one of them, in the world, doing good, being a girl. But only fancy. Don't be fancy. Let's go home and grow in the dirt.

Somehow, today's bit was inspired by Ted Kooser's "New Potato" as well as Drake. Ask me how and why they relate sometime, and I'll make something up, because I have no idea. But there's nobody here to tell me it's ridiculous or this is ridiculous. But if you're answering, I'm listening, you sexy potato, you.

This is just one of the leathery eggs
the scuffed-up, dirty turtle of the moon
buried early in spring, her eyes like stars
fixed on the future, and, inside its red skin,
whiteness, like all of the moons to come,
and marvelous, buttered with light.
- from Ted Kooser's Valentines

Pterodactyl Tuesday

I've decided that I'm going to start writing on Tuesdays, unleash my creative juices into this blog. That sounds weird doesn't it? I won't release juices. How about we say, rather, that I'm opening my palms, letting the creative meat flow from my fingers, onto the keyboard, and into this space. Okay, I'll work on metaphors...see why I need to start writing regularly again? Juice and meat metaphors.

What do I call this special, weird Tuesday? Tantalizing, twisted, tactual, telling, teeming...tilapia? I can't think of anything not stupid.

Tentative Tuesday.

Terminal Tuesday. No.

Textual Tuesday? That's dumb.

It could be Tipsy Tuesday.

Tolerable Tuesday.

What would happen if we named it Pterodactyl Tuesday...because, did you know? That word is derived from the Greek word "teron," which means "wing" and "daktylos" which refers to the way the wing is supported by a large finger. Yeah that's awkward, maybe, but it makes me think of how my fingers have wings when I'm writing all this junk. And, since I rarely make complete sense of these definition-blogs, it's okay that the P conflicts with the T in the alliteration. If you have other suggestions, I'm open to them.

This comic is from Drew over at Left-Handed Toons

Here's a first writing installment for this Tuesday series.

Blink 182

You blinked at me 182 times
I counted, because that's what
I learned to do at some point
count actions, count joints

You looked at my lips 17 times
when we were at the dive bar
and you ordered only whiskey
then you just melted into me

You said sorry for doing that
But you probably weren't
I said it was fine, it's okay
since that's just what I say

Then came the 182nd blink
and the room ripped open
me one way, you the other
your drink-mix, your lover

Though I like your beard
your hard liquor knowledge
I can't stand those eye cows,
your Travis Barker eyebrows.


(Sorry, Travis). I guess we'll see if this Tuesday routine will actually work, but you can hold me to it. It's always nice to write with you. Happy Tuesday, goofs.