Wednesday, January 26, 2005
imaginary pencils
let me get this one started on the right foot by sharing a little wisdom my grandpa once told me: ....(he usually, takes a while)...........(by this time, he's just staring at you).....(here, it comes)....we all have dreams, son.
and the red button for originality goes off real loud. like THIS THIS THIS THIS!
but, thats not the point. because being original doesn't always mean you are interesting. and as we all know, interesting people tend to wear nice clothes. and those nice clothes result in shoes with the idea of interesting pasted on them.
and then that gets you places. high places. because you walk in them.
follow me, here.
back to dreams. we all have them, blah blah blah--okay, my grandpa didnt really say that. but he did tell me this nifty story once about coming over here as an immigrant in the 50's from Mexico and learning how to play the accordion from some rude Germans. now, thats a story. and thats how babies are made.
The origins of the modern newspaper lie in the Dutch gazettes of the late seventeenth century: but the newspaper only became a general category of printed matter after 1700.
-Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
