4.16.2008

The Sweetest Day

Lately, creativity seems to be my primary offensive move against Ego getting the best of me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not shedding that capital E anytime soon ‘cause it kinda keeps me from becoming too amorphous and amoebic. After all, we use ego to classify ourselves into these individualized human packages — and in the grocery store of life this is what I'd call spice (and variety).

To keep apace with any potential interest some of you may have in my word wads — I’m compiling legs, arms, ears, crotches, spines, eyes, shoulders [typographically speaking] for our combined pleasure. Like this theater poster design I just finished:


My friend Rachel Perlmeter is the director. Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill wrote The 3 Penny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) in Germany during the 1920s. The play is jazzy, cabaret while offering a powerful critique on the capitalism of Germany's Weimar Republic.


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Those marks are particularly helpful when one is about to go off on a massive tangent.


Recently, a friend shared this SFist link about a hiker falling to her death at the Marin Headlands.

The Headlands are my favorite place to hike, ocean gaze and meditate. The last time I was there, I lead my GF up a rather cliffy shortcut after getting us trapped on a bit of beach that had gotten predictably cut off by a high-tide I chose to ignore. That short-cutting act probably introduced a mysterious mite-like bite to my lower left leg that morphed into an even more elusive rash about a week later and consequently took several meds a month to eradicate. We could have fallen.

3 comments:

clancyjane said...

your story tells and shows so effortlessly, so naturally, so authentically. always a pleasure to read here.

Anonymous said...

Marin is beautiful.

This post was a pleasure.
i loved the random phrases.
And laughed at asteriks because i use them just as you suggested.

Commonality is hope for the world.
Every lil bit helps.

~c A Hughes

LK said...

clancyjane: Such a pleasure to see you back. It's been a while. And thanks for the read.

c A Hughes: * * *