Death Upon My Shoulder
I've started a new blog, Death Upon My Shoulder, because, you know, I wasn't spending enough time on the net.
While I'll continue to make every effort to ensure the highest possible signal:noise ratio on MemeMachineGo!, I make no such guarantee of Death Upon My Shoulder (whose obvious acronym is rather unfortunate) despite its pretentious title. I fully reserve the right to natter on about the books I'm reading, the movies I've seen, or even "Today I had a tofu sandwich."
Keith Johnstone, in Impro, nominally on teaching comedy improv, implores performers to dare to be obvious, insisting that attempting to be original is a defensive mechanism to prevent revealing anything of yourself, and is thus far less interesting. I know that sounds easy to dismiss, but he makes a compelling argument for it, and I'd suggest seeing it in context before judging it. Impro's the finest book on teaching, learning, creativity, and human interaction I've ever read, and I'd recommend it to anyone who ever has occasion to teach, learn, create or interact with humans.
Death Upon My Shoulder is where I'm daring to be obvious.
=v= Yet another convergence of life experiences for Zed and myself. That's right: I, too, had a tofu sandwich on June 1st. (Also, one of these days maybe I'll get my home-grown cantankerously-free-software-only blog off the ground.)
Nina gave me a copy of Impro, promising that it'll change my life. I also read Journey to Ixtlan years ago, and as a bicyclist, have often seen Death at my left.
Congrats to Zed on the new blog.
Posted by Jym on June 3 2002 09:48