Recently, my posts have lacked depth. I realize I'm not in the depth business, but still. I've skimmed so much surface, that I feel that I have left no waters unrippled. Now, ennui has settled in and the surface holds no glamor for me any longer. I am a dragonfly who wants to do the triple lindy.
Frankly, I don't have anything to really dive into. I'm not pissed off about the war; I'm beyond it. I can't get into wrestling or NASCAR. I'm over NCLB. Even American Idol and Survivor have lost their luster. Perhaps my anti-depressants are working too well. I can't seem to tap into the rage. My hot buttons are suddenly luke-warm. Maybe, if the elections were in full swing, I'd have a point of view worth chewing on. Sadly, I just can't think of one damn thing to be passionate about.
As a result, I've been posting a bunch of flotsam from the stream of consciousness. I've got a general malaise about this writing business. Maybe you could help. I realize I'm being needy here, but perhaps you could suggest some rant topics to me in the comments. I'll be glad to try them out for size and practice passion diatribes. Maybe that will give me the boost I need to go forward. Otherwise, my future posts may be nothing but things like this or this.
While I do enjoy the visual non-sequitur as much as the next person, as long as the next person is not Rene Magritte, here are a few topics about which I am not currently enraged:
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Does Owning a Minivan Impair Your Judgement, or is Minivan Ownership Merely a Symptom of Impaired Judgement?
Those are good ones, that deadspot suggested.
ReplyDeleteI'm kind of going through my own little issue, so I need to keep the few thoughts that are floating around in my brain to myself (honestly I don't think you could use "the one night this happened to me" anyway, cuz it didn't happen to you).
Good luck... or break a leg... or whatever you're supposed to say in instances like this.
Sorry, girl, I got nothin'. It's February. Ennui is allowed. Maybe we should all take a bloggng hiatus.
ReplyDeleteCrap, deadspot got all the good ones.
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What's next for Britney?
How many licks DOES it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?
Sorry your in a writing funk. Take a break, but not too long I just got here. :)
Did we ever get your take on Anna Nicole?
ReplyDeleteaaaaand what's WRONG with Magritte?!?
ReplyDeletethis is but one of the reasons why I have some 20 cakes in various states of cookery lined up-- for those days I can't think of anything interesting to say and I've done too much surface stuff.
I think you might be dead on re: the antidepressants: I am NOT the same man I was before christmas or whenever I started taking Cymbalta. Of course, back then, I was just mean n' nasty and rotten and a complete ass, but a LOT of stuff that bothered the hell out of me just plain DOESN'T anymore: I"m with you on the war and even coming up steadily on NCLB.
The question is do you want a RANT about something or do you want something interesting and with depth? I try to waffle between the two when I can, but sadly, like everyone else @ the bottom of the list, I can't thunk of anything interesting right now. 'Course, I'm also completely knackered.
Magritte is great, big orange. He was just the first example that came to mind of a person who enjoys a visual non-sequitur even more than I do. If he were the person, I might not enjoy it quite as much as he did, otherwise, I'm in there with the best of them.
ReplyDeleteThank you all. Now I have a list to work from...Number 1: A Eulogy for Anna Nicole Smith.
ReplyDeleteI trust you to give Anna the farewell that she deserves.
ReplyDeleteDig deeper Flan! Dig deeper! American Idol can be overanalyzed to death. Since you don't watch NASCAR, watch a race and write on what you don't like. You can invoke an in-depth topic on anything if you think it through long enough. I know you can or we wouldn't be friends! ;)
ReplyDeleteI recommend you mine The Official Site Of Grant Miller for ideas.
ReplyDeleteI am so tired of hearing myself say this but Grant Miller is right. The abstract information and the expansive range of topics included on The Official Site Of Grant Miller might trigger something for you.
ReplyDeleteHmm...there are possibilities in stealing from Grant Miller. Maybe a mash-up of ideas: The Best Thing That Ever Would Have Happened To My Mother If She Would Have Dated Alan Alda.
ReplyDeleteI'll think about it.