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danuv ([personal profile] danuv) wrote2006-12-14 09:53 pm

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My cat eats strange foods. She loves bbq pork (not that we let her have much), sweet tea and lettuce, not 'spring mix' or anything froufrou, just plain iceberg. She also won't kiss me. I'm taking it personally.

Managed to focus long enough this month to read I Capture the Castle and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (I'd listened to most of the audiobook a while back). I should be working on another Colette bio but I might just wait for the book about ho's of the wild west that is winging its way to me. Actually this would be the second book about prostitution in the West that I've gotten. I hope it has some new material and isn't just all sensational fluff.

This morning I finished watching a haunting documentary about Harvey Darger. I haven't really been pulled in by much of what's called outsider art but this was fascinating. Beautiful and slightly disturbing. I'd like to read more about him.

Finding myself paralyzed by fear of my own stupidity to want to post much lately. Guess I ought to just get over that but every time I try to talk (write) it all comes out in an awkward tangle.

[identity profile] autumnlaughing.livejournal.com 2006-12-15 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
I'm working on Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell as well! It's gonna take me more than a month though... and I thought *I* read fast!

[identity profile] brododaktula.livejournal.com 2006-12-15 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I Capture the Castle is such a favorite of mine and even just thinking about it cheers me up. I'm a fan of the movie version, too, and just about everyone who's in it.

This is probably not a good comment, but you're not the only one tangled in worries about stupidity. I keep posting anyway and not saying anything substantive and just feeling horrible about my uselessness, but there's not a good alternative. I'd feel just as dumb and worthless if I weren't writing anything as I do writing dumb, worthless things. I'm not saying you ought to get rigid about posting more, but I'm choosing to believe that going ahead and blathering through the bad stuff will get me to better writing and thinking eventually. (Or else I'll just crumble under the weight of my stupid broken dreams, or something appropriately romantic like that.)

Plus, you have cute cat food stories! Everyone wants more of those, especially if you manage to take photos.