Slick!
FWIW, *Cobra*, 'cuz that's the brand (of the two) I remember best back in my day....
<queues up "Convoy">
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Slick!
FWIW, *Cobra*, 'cuz that's the brand (of the two) I remember best back in my day....
<queues up "Convoy">
oh here Inquiry, this dude seems to know what the fuss is:
https://austinkleon.com/2017/11/20/a-few-notes-on-daily-blogging/
writing/blogging has quality (vs) quantity issue, but "feed" (quantity) is "good" (I'd like to see the parameters on what "good" is) and "stock" (their little word for quality) is also good, too. Because - good good
And I relate to the "stop on the treadmill and realize "I got nothing here" sentiment. A constant tour de Web without stopping to write a thing worth a dang (in this/my case, literally!).
but, ya know, it's just a thing one can do and some do and most don't and it's the same all the time anyway
nice read
This seems useful along similar lines:
https://mikegrindle.com/posts/scraps
his quote/link here:
"Instead, I’m keener to read the thoughts of others working through the process of discovering their own answers (or writing so they know what they think)."
...has me thinking of what BECAME the motto of the T** blog "I like to write about what I like, so I can figure out why I like it"
(which is a quote from an Institute for Advanced Study professor which I stole) ;)
He's also spot-on with the "comfort" with vulnerability/imperfection bit. I need to read more of this bloke :D
~bartender, espresso. I have runnins arounds to do today - extra bold :D
I felt a writing twinge or two read it, but the twinges collapsed back to nothingness like a bubble at that bottom of a pan in which water is starting to boil that just couldn't rise above its watery cover.
Any, oh my, a discussion about wolfing!
https://mikegrindle.com/shoebox/one-sentence.txt
I guess it comes down/back to a statement I'd forgotten, namely that it's not magic if/when you know how it works, which to me implies just doing without thinking about the doing, about its potential/desired "effect", etc.
Like the hopscotch pattern embedded in a gymnastics mat where we were with the grandchild, and I was suddenly jumping down the damned thing because I just plain had to. And he followed almost to a tee.
And maybe blogging is finger hopscotch for keyboard?
(Of course, now the author is thinking more about hops and scotch....)
their analog model that runs $100 (I think there are only two analog models) looks pretty slick. I plan on listening at low volume to chatter and "chew" (albeit CB chew, not HAM chew) in the comfort of my own kitchen.
Huh, interesting, this is the first I'm hearing/reading of the "chew" lingo.
THERE BETTER BE SOME TRANSCRIPTS FORTHCOMING, DAMMIT!!! :-)
I need some audio capturing software and a transcriber, then I can have a new zine: Chatter Highway. Anonymized for Big Rig Billy's protection (an actual term truckers use to describe a "show off" who brags about his truck).
and here you go - https://myradiolab.com/cb-radio-slang-and-10-codes/
My contribution is 10-404: blogger not found. ;-)
I read ya blogger. I saw "404" and was about to ask a 10-9 ;)
(that resource for CB lingo is so fucking cool)
I also think some of this stuff is 10-1 and leading to 10-77, but I am 10-8 until further notice
:OVER:
You've got me imagining a rewrite/remake of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_(1979_film)
Except instead of:
> The film follows a middle-aged man who becomes infatuated > with a young woman whom he has never met, leading to a > comic chase and an encounter in Mexico.
it's a film following a middle-aged blogger who becomes infatuated with CB radio conversations of truckers he never has, and never will meet, leading to a comic chase after the ideal typewriter-created blog post about the joy of tuning into CB radio code slinging truckers and/or enthusiasts, finely peppered with dream-sequence encounters in an online pub whose name remains tantalizingly anonymous.
:-)
get me an 80s Testerosa and some explosions to go off in the background, and you have yourself a bonafide blockbuster from 85!
As long as John Carpenter does the effects, I want to be able to emerge as a slytherin through the CB mic and steal the truck like a cryptid from The Thing
I think Kurt Russel was a trucker in one of those, keep him away