Argh
I have the worst case of writer's block, so even though this never works, I'm going to invite you all to ask me questions. Ask me anything!
Also, my blog is super fucked up when viewed with Internet Explorer right now, and I don't know how to fix it. Firefox is better anyway! :P
Edited to add: I think I figured it out. But Firefox is still superior.
About Me
Name: velocibadgergirl
I'm an unrepentant science nerd. I talk too much, read voraciously, and have mostly given up swearing. I have degrees in geology and creative writing, but my job doesn't have too much to do with either. I'm married to MB, the greatest guy on the whole entire planet. We're doing our best to raise a good dog (adopted April 2008) and a happy kid (born January 2010). It's not always easy, but together we're finding our way.
velocibadgergirl (at) gmail dot com
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Geologist, defined
→ it's as if they know me
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Pandora
→ the best music site ever -
playlist.com
→ source of nifty song-playing widgets
- Things Look Like Things
- The Daily Coyote
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- Cake Wrecks
- Craftastrophe
- Fuck You, Penguin
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Postsecret
→ (updated Sundays) - Found Magazine
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Animal Tracks
→ (weekly animal pic slideshows) -
Month in Space
→ (monthly space slideshows)
- Badger Badger Badger
- Footy Footy Footy
- Christmas Badgers
- Looking for my Leopard
- Star Wars Gangsta Rap
- Cows With Guns
- The Pygmy Shrew
- Cat Hilarity
- A Squirrel Story
- The best church ad EVER
- Peep Research
- Peep Research 2
-
Peep Surgery
→ (my favorite) -
An Empirical Study of Foil Hats
→ (no, really) -
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
→ (practical mind control protection for paranoids)
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Marginalia
— © Billy Collins
Sometimes the notes are ferocious,
skirmishes against the author
raging along the borders of every page
in tiny black script.
If I could just get my hands on you,
Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O'Brien,
they seem to say,
I would bolt the door and beat some logic into your head.
Other comments are more offhand, dismissive —
"Nonsense." "Please!" "HA!!" —
that kind of thing.
I remember once looking up from my reading,
my thumb as a bookmark,
trying to imagine what the person must look like
who wrote "Don't be a ninny"
alongside a paragraph in The Life of Emily Dickinson.
Students are more modest
needing to leave only their splayed footprints
along the shore of the page.
One scrawls "Metaphor" next to a stanza of Eliot's.
Another notes the presence of "Irony"
fifty times outside the paragraphs of A Modest Proposal.
Or they are fans who cheer from the empty bleachers,
Hands cupped around their mouths.
"Absolutely," they shout
to Duns Scotus and James Baldwin.
"Yes." "Bull's-eye." "My man!"
Check marks, asterisks, and exclamation points
rain down along the sidelines.
And if you have managed to graduate from college
without ever having written "Man vs. Nature"
in a margin, perhaps now
is the time to take one step forward.
We have all seized the white perimeter as our own
and reached for a pen if only to show
we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages;
we pressed a thought into the wayside,
planted an impression along the verge.
Even Irish monks in their cold scriptoria
jotted along the borders of the Gospels
brief asides about the pains of copying,
a bird singing near their window,
or the sunlight that illuminated their page —
anonymous men catching a ride into the future
on a vessel more lasting than themselves.
And you have not read Joshua Reynolds,
they say, until you have read him
enwreathed with Blake's furious scribbling.
Yet the one I think of most often,
the one that dangles from me like a locket,
was written in the copy of Catcher in the Rye
I borrowed from the local library
one slow, hot summer.
I was just beginning high school then,
reading books on a davenport in my parents' living room,
and I cannot tell you
how vastly my loneliness was deepened,
how poignant and amplified the world before me seemed
when I found on one page
A few greasy looking smears
and next to them, written in soft pencil —
by a beautiful girl, I could tell,
whom I would never meet —
"Pardon the egg salad stains, but I'm in love."
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. — Frank Lloyd Wright
8 Comments:
looks the same to me.
Looks the same in FF too.
Writer's block suggestion: How did you fix it? What was wrong? How did you figure it out?
Do you have a foot care regimen? If yes, please describe said regimen. If no, why not?
What would you do with a $100 million? Did you ever have a dream/nightmare that changed you? How do you think life would be different if you'd been born a boy? What would you like to write a novel about?
Hey! my word verification is dorked! As if I needed any more signs...
yay, sidebar no longer eating whole blog. i got no blog suggestions. if i did i might blog myself.
Dudes. These are great questions :D Keep 'em coming, and xo!
It's looked great in Internet Explorer 8 all along....but then again I have a wide screen laptop, so that may be part of it?
My suggestion would be favorite books.....if you had to choose just 10 books to own as your complete library for the rest of your life, which 10 books would you choose? Or, if that's too difficult and you need more books, choose 25 to complete your library. Or, what are your favorite kid's books (either from your readings as a child, or favorite kid's books now)? I'm a big fan of kid's lit in general because there are so many extremely well written books in that genre, and I'm always curious which kid's books people like.
Or, how about travel...? If you and MB were gifted with 6 months off work and unlimited travel expenses, where would you go and why? Or time travel? I you could travel back to any time and place in history, what time and place would you choose, and why?
How about favorite foods? What foods do you adore so much that they are "must have" foods? Could be gourmet fancy stuff or plain yet yummy things, whatever you adore.
Can you tell I am in a "list making" mood right now? ;) I may have to steal some of these topics for my own blog.
PS....my word veriication word right now is "bushi" Hmmm.
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