Say cheese.
2 Famous existentialist. Name is pronounced kuh-moo'.
3 Nice to exist, I imagine.
4 I'm into existing, if that's your thing.
5 Last night when I finished yet another in a series of endless working sessions, I did what I always do late: I watched an old movie on TCM.
6 I thought it was The Stranger, this riveting piece about a guy who murders someone because it was too hot at the beach.
7 Or something. I remember at one time it was all the rage, along with nihilism, absurdism, stoicism, and first-personism.
8 Ah, the darkness.
9 I'm more poetic than that.
10 I'm also more upbeat. I like Shakespeare, especially the comedies.
11 I think, therefore iamb.
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13 English joke.
14 I never really did get into all that hip, nose-ring stuff.
15 I always assumed that Existentialism had something to do with the phrase, "life is laundry."
16 I think there is more of a market for that sort of thing, don't you?
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18 This crap slays me.
19 Do college people still have to take all that stuff seriously?
20 My feeling in 2013 is this: who would read a famous guy's blog?
21 Nobody.
22 Would Edgar have been as famous?
23 In some weird way, probably.
24 Probably.
25 Moving on, Part One: Speaking of Edgar, I was pleased to have heard from Jennifer Valdez last night. She sent me a message about an upcoming show at West Valley College, one of the best college companies around.
26 They are bringing in A Very Dark Evening with Edgar Allan Poe, five of Poe's short stories adapted to the stage. The run is Oct. 18, 19, 24,25, 26 at 8 p.m.; two matinees on Oct. 20 and 27 at 2 p.m. and one midnight showing on Oct.26.
WHERE: Studio, WVC
PRICES: $10 student, $12 general.
27 I saw this late but thought I could send it out to the masses early.
28 Thanks Jenny. Awesome scoop.
29 Moving on, Part Two: On the homefront, our Homecoming theme this year is Halloween, which is an amazingly brilliant idea. I don't have the breakdown of who is doing what, but it has the entire school buzzing.
30 It will culminate in a few public rallies (this would be the skits and all) as well as a Halloween-themed dance on November 2, complete with a haunted house!
31 In addition, they wish to include some of my ghost stories at around 10 p.m. I'm not sure if it is stories by my students, or if it is my own Heidi stories.
32 I would prefer the students' stories, and to have a competition in each class for best stories.
33 If they wanted the Heidi stories specifically, I would probably agree to do them.
34 Talk about scary stuff...
35 So we'll see. First I need to get the Theater for my own annual presentations, which now take two days during the busiest ASB time of the Fall. I already submitted a request to use the Theater those two days, but it is amid a week of absolute madness (usually is!).
36 I'll try to keep up on any coincidences.
37 The night before last I predicted Jenny's email, and even knew it would be here in a day or two. Not THAT amazing, since it is the time of year I begin this fascinating unit.
38 I'll tell more as the days approach. Things will happen; they already have. Last year things got extremely intense, and publicly, particularly with coincidences and electrical things going haywire.
39 I'll try gathering all I can and preserving them on this site.
40 Xanga still has some stuff, but Geo-cities destroyed all archives of the Heidi stories, including the absolutely wonderful ybdrama.com website I made years ago, I believe in 2002.
41 If I can jangle a few memories, that was the one that was in sepia tones with Chaplin as the headliner, and which featured not only the archives, but the entire Heidi chronz, a chat thread, AND the immortal Strong Bad.
42 The world will never know the likes of it ever again.
43 More's the pity.
44 This ran late last night, so I'll need to cut it short this morning, all apologies.
45 I'm excited about everything that is coming up in the next few weeks. The ghost stories date back to when I was a student teacher, which was somewhere around the time water was invented.
46 Moving on, Part the Thoid: Anybody lookin'?
47 For the record, I already have a new website for my classes, and I hope to bring a lot of that stuff back, but in a form that is consistent with whatever nonsense I'm firing at the world presently, and that's a LOT of nonsense!
48 It's must be the Existential guy in me.
49 Or maybe the inexhaustible idiot.
50 One way or another, as they say.
51 Enjoy your day; I LOVES me some Thursday.
52 Time to get your bump on.
53 See you again.
54 Peace.
~H~
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