"I can no longer tweet about Trump. That anyone in
America would even CONSIDER voting for this
rabid coyote leaves me speechless."
"The Donald".
America would even CONSIDER voting for this
rabid coyote leaves me speechless."
---Tweet from Stephen King
December 8, 2015
The Daily News
1 I knew there was a reason I admire Stephen King. He doesn't hold his thoughts inside.
2 Things You Don't Know About Me, Dept.: I don't Tweet. I don't know how Twitter works. I signed up for it once, and then felt I was in a large aluminum house with all sorts of doors in it. All I could hear were my own echoes.The world threw a party and I wasn't invited. Probably because I never Tweet at parties. I make people pay for everything.
3 Haha.
4 Slow news day, yesterday was.
5 Moving On, Part One: I time travel when I do this. You may have noticed. Stephen King tells us that we should write 2,000 words a day. That might sound off-subject, but stay with me here.
6 He writes his best stuff in the morning. Me too, if I ever have good stuff. The thing is, 2,000 words a day (with Sundays off, King once claimed he told a reporter) is an intimidating number of words. In On Writing he confesses he writes a minimum of 2,000 words a day INCLUDING Sundays.
7 Right now it is around 2:17, yesterday afternoon.
8 Because this news is daily, I sometimes write things yesterday. So yesterday I had to figure out how to word this sentence, for example.
9 This morning, I have to go through and edit for all of that.
10 Does this make any sense?
11 I presume most of the people who come into this nonsense and read it are probably writers, in some form or another.
12 That's why a lot of this has turned down that lane.
13 Great work if you can get it.
14 Moving On, Part Two: It is again yesterday, 2:20 p.m. I am at Josh and Caitlin's. A baby just cried, and, a second later, the dog from next door woofed in a deep tone. Velvety voice, that one. Great Dane.
15 Peace in the afternoon.
16 The room is lit with natural lighting. It is lit in three different areas: directly in front of me, on the blinds across the room, and on the adjoining wall. Shadow and light. It adds to the peace.
17 Little by little.
18 I have to leave for a bit. You'll never know I was gone.
19 BRB. Don't go anywhere. Caitlin needs some manilla folders. All adults are having hunger pangs. All adults are on breakable diets. So yeah. BRB.
20 Okay I'm back. The house is roughly eight minutes away.
21 Time has passed. It is now 4:19 in the afternoon. This is all so vérité. I brought back some Lean Cuisines. Good boy.
22 Here is Dictionary.Com's definition of vérité. Note the coincidence with real life happenings:
vérité
23 I'm so French I can barely stand it.
24 Ah, it's all good.
25 Moving On, Part Three: Sorry to hear of the passing of Alan Rickman. Our good people leave too early. That's the way of the world.
26 I rest assured that those who pass are needed to help with the party they will have when we finally arrive.
27 Nice thoughts, nice thoughts.
28 Moving On, Part Four: It is again early, and I have again time traveled.
29 I am once again in real time.
30 If there is such a thing, I am once again in it.
31 It is 8:38 in the morning, this day.
32 Unless you time travel, you will probably see this as insignificant.
33 More power to you.
34 I find it fascinating.
35 My head races faster than the calendar. I'm pretty sure it is caused by merchandise hawkers.
36 I saw people at Rite-Aid taking Christmas stuff off the racks the day before Christmas.
37 I walked into a Target a day or so later and all the Christmas stuff had been placed in the automotive area, and the Valentine stuff was already in place.
38 It's the fourteenth of January, for crying out loud.
39 Spring has yet to sprung.
40 This makes me disorientated.
41
42
43 To me it shall always remain disoriented, even though the British prefer the ghastly disorientated. Evidently, my grammar Nazi got this one wrong.
44 Irregardless, which means regardless, and which caused a grammar Nazi to jump all over me when I said it once, is now considered fine.
45 I'm walking through a blizzard here.
46 Ah, how subtly the language changes.
47 Ah, how it does.
48 It's all good. Afaik.
49
50 In 2005, afaik became a word.
51 Either that, or I slept through the first part of this century.
52 Are you ready? Afaik means as far as I know.
53 To quote Don Rickles: "How did the crowd get out of control?"
54 Ah, the King's English.
55 Wasn't the King's favorite food a banana-and-peanut butter sandwich?
56 I buttergo. English majors and teachers and even retired teachers are looking at me with sharpened knives.
57 Gottago.
58 See you again.
59 Peace.
21 Time has passed. It is now 4:19 in the afternoon. This is all so vérité. I brought back some Lean Cuisines. Good boy.
22 Here is Dictionary.Com's definition of vérité. Note the coincidence with real life happenings:
vérité
/ˈveɪriːˌteɪ; French verite/
adjective
1.
involving a high degree of realism or naturalism: a vérité look at David Bowie. See also cinéma vérité
Word Origin
French, literally: truth
24 Ah, it's all good.
25 Moving On, Part Three: Sorry to hear of the passing of Alan Rickman. Our good people leave too early. That's the way of the world.
26 I rest assured that those who pass are needed to help with the party they will have when we finally arrive.
27 Nice thoughts, nice thoughts.
28 Moving On, Part Four: It is again early, and I have again time traveled.
29 I am once again in real time.
30 If there is such a thing, I am once again in it.
31 It is 8:38 in the morning, this day.
32 Unless you time travel, you will probably see this as insignificant.
33 More power to you.
34 I find it fascinating.
35 My head races faster than the calendar. I'm pretty sure it is caused by merchandise hawkers.
36 I saw people at Rite-Aid taking Christmas stuff off the racks the day before Christmas.
37 I walked into a Target a day or so later and all the Christmas stuff had been placed in the automotive area, and the Valentine stuff was already in place.
38 It's the fourteenth of January, for crying out loud.
39 Spring has yet to sprung.
40 This makes me disorientated.
41
42
43 To me it shall always remain disoriented, even though the British prefer the ghastly disorientated. Evidently, my grammar Nazi got this one wrong.
44 Irregardless, which means regardless, and which caused a grammar Nazi to jump all over me when I said it once, is now considered fine.
45 I'm walking through a blizzard here.
47 Ah, how it does.
48 It's all good. Afaik.
49
50 In 2005, afaik became a word.
51 Either that, or I slept through the first part of this century.
52 Are you ready? Afaik means as far as I know.
53 To quote Don Rickles: "How did the crowd get out of control?"
54 Ah, the King's English.
55 Wasn't the King's favorite food a banana-and-peanut butter sandwich?
56 I buttergo. English majors and teachers and even retired teachers are looking at me with sharpened knives.
57 Gottago.
58 See you again.
59 Peace.
~H~
fin.
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