I think of BOOM BOOM Here Lies O'Leary, from Scaries Stories Vol 2. I, a guy named O'Leary, remembers this tale along with all other lore surrounding the (fairly rare) O'Leary name. Esp the Chicago Fire, ty Auntie ;)

No, I was thinking of wordplay, wordsmith'ing, how a good way to describe someone insulting a person with intentful hurt and personal hatred would be:

"...she spoke her disgust deliberately, as if saying it while still in the crowd we departed from. As though sky-writing "FUCK YOU" at night, where no one else would see it - just me, the night owl, while the rest of the neighborhood slumbered"

~bartender, a black coffee. A red eye - with a foaming, billowing, boiling drop of espresso dropped into the java like an undergrad at an initiation. It's 848, Sunday, Sun-day, a nice day.

Tomorrow clubhouse, other projects. My posts here are kaput, as deleting writing is nearly as important as writing it - clearing emotional cache. But those chips need filling, fingers need working.

Also, I have Google Fi - terrible for tethering, but it works somewhat. 50gb of *truly* unlim 5G speeds. not capped at 22gb like other carriers.

inquiry

> I think of BOOM BOOM Here Lies O'Leary, from Scaries
> Stories Vol 2. I, a guy named O'Leary, remembers this tale
> along with all other lore surrounding the (fairly rare)
> O'Leary name. Esp the Chicago Fire, ty Auntie ;)

You gots me remembering a Moody Blues song called "Legend of a Mind".

> No, I was thinking of wordplay, wordsmith'ing, how a good
> way to describe someone insulting a person with intentful
> hurt and personal hatred would be:
>
> "...she spoke her disgust deliberately, as if saying
> it while still in the crowd we departed from. As though
> sky-writing "FUCK YOU" at night, where no one else would
> see it - just me, the night owl, while the rest of the
> neighborhood slumbered"

That (to my knowledge) there's never been a competitive word-smithing show says about all one need to know about this species.

> as deleting writing is nearly as important as writing it

Heart!

> Also, I have Google Fi - terrible for tethering, but it
> works somewhat. 50gb of *truly* unlim 5G speeds. not capped
> at 22gb like other carriers.

There a bad "I smell the blood of an Englishmun!" in that somewhere.

tffb

That (to my knowledge) there's never been a competitive word-smithing show says about all one need to know about this species.

I think we did, it was informally called Sentence Contest but most called it Twitter. Then "headlines" got lazy and angry - people lost taste for wanting to "be good" at writing things. Ricochets the importance/weight of those who DO like to write back unto them. So sayeth Zarathustra (haha)

There a bad "I smell the blood of an Englishmun!" in that somewhere.

fees are low, Google is still a foe, and fumbling the network config is constant. Now I want an English muffin.

inquiry

Dang it, I missed out. The concision of Twitter was in the direction opposite of what did it for me. It felt like supping with mere typing mortals, yet the internet was a place in which I was hoping to escape mere mortals.

But of course the Eternal September "fixed" those hopes/dreams....

tffb

yes, though I was a youngster when ES started, and wasn't on BBSes, etc, before then (no home pc) I still hear/know a lot about the net, etiquette, online digital self-governance (e.g etiquette, ha), and how keeping one's head about them was crucial in a mostly un-moderated and "inconsequential" world. makes me wish I had been there, though I am cool with having the Web pre-Patriot Act, though.

sorry for rambling, I'd like to see "finite August" occur - people have to conduct themselves with common sense and no other guidelines, the "no "real world" blowback" nature of it would CREATE the environment of good exchange. Like being lone on a mountain side - those steps need be watched because no one pulls up with band-aids if anything goes wrong.

inquiry

"Finite August"? Oooh la la! Gloriously well put.

I remain amazed at/with how little there is in so much. Probably not the best analogy, but I wants me some *needle*, not flippin' hackstack fever....

BOOM BOOM, the keyboard clacks