Because it’s gotten to the point where more than one person has expressed fleeting curiosity: yeah, Valamity’s going to keep existing, at least as a website. What can I say — I really like the domain, I have a sweet hosting package, and maybe one day I really will get back into blaggin’.
If anybody [...]
It was a dry summer in the double ohs, when Russell and I discovered my brother’s canoe under a tarp in the garage. It was a great dusty red sliver, speckled with mud and gravel-grains and we grabbed the faded lemon-lime garden hose from the hydrant and washed it damn near clean. My brother’s polyethylene [...]
Okay, so I want to write. However, there are a few things I’m really bad at–generating story ideas consistently, planning out those ideas into viable pieces, and then following through. I’d like to start writing something new, now that I’m done with “Oxford Town.” I have a few ideas floating around, some started briefly, some [...]
“The country I come from
Is called the Midwest”
-Bob Dylan, “God On Our Side”
Oxford is a town in the southern, central part of Nebraska. It’s twenty miles south of Holdrege, which is thirty miles south of Kearney, and that’s along Mighty I-80, so everyone ought to have heard of it. Oxford has seven bars, seven churches, [...]
Hey gang, I haven’t been doing very much writing of my own yet. The basic plan as of now is to secure one of those “Here’s how to Write X” books, and to go through the exercises and to put them up here and to brainstorm and sift through ideas and settle on something to [...]
Listen. Here are some things you should know:
Yes, the new theme is shitty. It was necessary, to shed the Valamity that was, and to forge on to a Valamity that may be again. Also, Leila is busy making disguide pretty, and I am too damned lazy to learn how to make pretty themes when I [...]
Something has compelled me to put on “The Bachelor and the Bride,” a song I’ve found sweetly, tragically brilliant since first listen, but Seth has never been able to get into. When I put enough energy into pretending and simplifying, these little subtleties of taste can almost define our main differences at their crudest and [...]
Thirteen days ago, but that’s okay. I should probably get on Seth about making an entry at some point, seeing as we seem to have hit one of those phases where only one of us is exclusively updating, and I am pretty much too boring/lack the pseudo-literary flair to keep a blog alive on my [...]
For all its beauty, Wordpress 2.7 is very, very, very slow, and I’m not sure the aesthetics are enough to make up for the 10 seconds (oh, horrors) I have to wait for any given admin page to load. On top of that, the scrolly things on the left don’t even work and I can’t [...]
I’m having a mini-fit over the hilarity of this right now, so bear with me. I wonder if anybody else has caught this yet — I can’t be the first.
Exhibit A: Listen to Yourself, an xkcd strip from a few weeks back.
Exhibit B: Any YouTube video, but let’s use this one because I love it.
Now [...]