Kind of!
The next week and a bit, I am on vacation. Well, vacation a la Gayle, which means I will be working on various journal related matters, editing a paper to be submitted for publication, and reading about Foucault and the law for my professor. Also, I need to GET ON IT, because I have a half marathon in two months. And the running books are saying I should be running 6 days a week, but I run to enrich my life, not take over my life, so, no. But still, I would like to feel prepared, it is in fact my first race.
There is a running/body issues post that has started rattling around in my brain, but you know? In honor of my vacation, I don't want to come up with blog posts. And I intend to try to NOT get so stabby-mad that I have to write a blog post lest I hurt a person. So! Here is where you, my wonderful readers, come in!
What would you like me to write about the next nine-ish days? Books? Movies? Do you want me to tell stories? Do you want politics or law or theory? What do you want to see here at Unnatural Forces? I hand this over to you, Readers. Symbolically! Because I may not be able to hand it over to you, actually - I haven't the faintest how many people will leave suggestions, or whether I can write on your suggestion competently, or whether I feel I have anything to add to a topic. Like, I can tell you right off I am not going to write about the "mosque" (it's a fucking community center, people)-near-Ground-Zero issue. Why? Well, because lots of better, smarter people have written on this, and also, three words: The First Amendment. Here's another three words: FUCK OFF, BIGOTS. And Gayle is done.
I'll pick three topics suggested to me here or in the Twitterverse, and I will write about them over the next week and a half (insh'allah). And then we'll be back to regularly scheduled programming, which means this again becomes a tyrannical despotism where I will subject people to long-winded stories that have no relevance to anything at all (and also to Nicholas Sparks; I am an especially tyrannical tyrant, I tell you).
IN ADDITION, I realized today that this blog has been in existence for over 6 months now! Yes! Happy half-birthday to us! Seems a fitting time to celebrate by being a lazy motherfucker and have other people come up with topics for me, no?
Alright, so, here we go: what am I writing about? I await with baited breath.
You're an enjoyable and thought provoking enough writer that I just wanna throw out prompts. So here goes:
ReplyDeleteLeast-favorite movie.
Book that failed to change your life.
Most interesting period in history.
Thing you were most terrified about doing but did anyway.
Something pretty basic about you that you haven't written about. Like, I dunno. Favorite article of clothing, or something you enjoy cooking. Do you enjoy cooking?
How great is George Orwell?
I hope at least one of those will be interesting :)
I love long-winded stories unrelated to current events, they're my favorite kind. Stories about teaching or your travels or your lovely sounding high school girl friends are always welcome. Enjoy your pseudo-break!
ReplyDeletePunning Pundit, this was the most awesome and helpful comment ever. Thank you! Much to think about now . . . :)
ReplyDeleteShannyn, I've gotten requests for stories on Twitter, too! Am working on this!
ReplyDeleteI wish this whole NYC mosque/community center controversy would just go away! The right-wingers have blown this issue completely out of proportion, and resorted to ugly stereotypes of Muslims. They have a right to build a place of worship! Does the phrase "freedom of religion" mean anything to them?
ReplyDeleteOoh, a suggestion box. Lemme think...
ReplyDelete...poetry's always good.
...or you could write about how you would go about selecting people for an off-planet colony, assuming faster-than-light solution and a planet not inhabited by intelligent life that's been terraformed.
(We call this game "Hypothetical" at my house. I do, in fact, have a zombie plan. It includes llamas.)
Oh wow, a book that failed to change your life is an AMAZING idea and I second that request!
ReplyDeleteOooh, ok, a book that failed to change my life IS good, I am just going to have to come up with this one. Thinking . . .
ReplyDeleteI also like book that changed your life.
ReplyDeleteAlso books that changed your life/were important to your identity that you have difficulty coming back to now- (I'm thinking of my own teenage favourites, that I loved and adored and that quite possibly saved my life at points, but that were also fucked up. Okay, maybe I'm writing a comment about blog posts I should write now).
I also second poetry.
Also favourite scenes in literature/film/tv or just Mad Men.
I am about to get to work on a blog post about books that DIDN'T change my life, but I love that people have said poetry.
ReplyDeleteBut do you want me to write ABOUT poetry, or write my own and post it here? I guess I can try both.
I get frustrated with poetry.
ReplyDelete(My favourite poem was about someone trying not to write a love poem and failing, it ended with the word, "Damn.")
I'd like to hear about law school, maybe? Not the grandeur but more that moment that happens in any pursuit of higher learning where you get disillusioned and didn't expect it.
Otherwise, amusing anecdotes are awesome!
I vote for anything involving pterosaurs, but love your story posts a shit-ton. Which, truth-be-told, is a lot of love.
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