Dark cloud passed
Thanks to Cintra, spring, skype, dinner with r outside and completely unexpected end of day emails, life on the up again. Dark cloud passed - so dank when it hovers though, scary.
Managed to tweedle an inordinate amount of time researching donnie darko on-line, r and I watched saturday. In pre-web days that would have been hours in library stacks, which is research, so is it tweedling?
No matter, it's not quite as dark and twisted a movie as I'd hoped but music (joy division, church) back-spinning and the unravelling the tangential-universe stuff in the aftermath, some fun. It also served to kill a number of idle hours in last job trying to unriddle the website (www.donniedarko.com), so something there.
The end of the day emails:
Former Comet co-worker (old job twice in one day) asking if I wanted to co-host an XM radio show on "buzz" marketing: Which is probably a no but flattering still.
And, from Trent in NH, this interesting proposal (not an invite actually):
"I'm thinking of taking a poor pilgrim from Nouakchott
to Mecca. Overland. Through Mali, Niger, Libya and
Egypt. With a small digital film crew."
I had to look up Nouakchott, and read this wonderful passage about Mautitania (can't possibly be twiddling to do this level of research):
Mauritania is venturing through towns half-blanketed in sand, sipping tea with nomads under their colourful tents, crossing plateaus that resemble the moon and gazing at prehistoric rock drawings and ancient Saharan architecture. One thousand-mile stare coming up.
The biggest attraction Mauritania offers is the very desolation that keeps so many people away. For those with the true spirit of adventure, Mauritania is one of the least trodden spots in the world - and even those who find it godforssaken agree that it's exotic.
LP
Now that's adventure. Sikkim pales : )
C
Managed to tweedle an inordinate amount of time researching donnie darko on-line, r and I watched saturday. In pre-web days that would have been hours in library stacks, which is research, so is it tweedling?
No matter, it's not quite as dark and twisted a movie as I'd hoped but music (joy division, church) back-spinning and the unravelling the tangential-universe stuff in the aftermath, some fun. It also served to kill a number of idle hours in last job trying to unriddle the website (www.donniedarko.com), so something there.
The end of the day emails:
Former Comet co-worker (old job twice in one day) asking if I wanted to co-host an XM radio show on "buzz" marketing: Which is probably a no but flattering still.
And, from Trent in NH, this interesting proposal (not an invite actually):
"I'm thinking of taking a poor pilgrim from Nouakchott
to Mecca. Overland. Through Mali, Niger, Libya and
Egypt. With a small digital film crew."
I had to look up Nouakchott, and read this wonderful passage about Mautitania (can't possibly be twiddling to do this level of research):
Mauritania is venturing through towns half-blanketed in sand, sipping tea with nomads under their colourful tents, crossing plateaus that resemble the moon and gazing at prehistoric rock drawings and ancient Saharan architecture. One thousand-mile stare coming up.
The biggest attraction Mauritania offers is the very desolation that keeps so many people away. For those with the true spirit of adventure, Mauritania is one of the least trodden spots in the world - and even those who find it godforssaken agree that it's exotic.
LP
Now that's adventure. Sikkim pales : )
C
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