new raisin bran redeems morning

[gurdonark]

I found six mini-posters for a dollar at Dollar General, and promptly decorated one with a poem and a colored marker drawing for mailing to someone I picked up at random on postcardx.net.
I have some construction paper which I want to
make into a handwritten poetry book; I have no calligraphic skills, but something tells me I can make it look cool. I also bought raisin bran
at the store; it's amazing how little touchstones like lack of the right breakfast cereal or
*both* Buffy the VAmpire Slayer and Enterprise being re-runs affect my limited psyche. Today I want to leap tall "to do" lists with a single bound. Soon I must begin the collage for nacowafer for a nervousness exchange. I have been looking at the print media in a new way--no longer is it what I can learn, it's what I can cut out and incorporate. I always liked that bit in
Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook (maybe it's in the intro) that folks should read as much of a book as works for them, and then put that book down and go to something else that works for them.
I want to write poems, draw pictures, fight daemons at work, finish some continuing legal education, and generally clear out all the little stuff in my life.

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Enterprise (Yeah, I know it's a Hitchhiker's Guide icon, but close enough)

[scott-m.livejournal.com]

No need to be anonymous anymore.
Like the pine trees lining the winding road, I got a name!

Okay, enough of that ...

I did not know that you're an Enterprise fan. My wife likes all
the Star Treks and I mostly tolerate them, but I find I really
like the doctor character on this new series. He seems to be
a deep thinker, gentle, funny, and low-key, and I'm noticing
that I'm paying particular attention when he's in a scene.

Scenes with Trip, on the other hand, always seem to be good
times to check out what's in the fridge. Your experience might
differ.

Re: Enterprise (Yeah, I know it's a Hitchhiker's Guide icon, but close enough)

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Hi Scott...

glad you got a name that you can carry with you everywhere you go.

I really like Enterprise. I like that odd tenor voice doing the intro song. I like the Captain, and the Vulcan first officer and the doctor very much. I enjoy the "lesser technology" contrasts, making me just as sheep like as the producers hoped I'd be.

The doctor is interesting because he is
quiet and bemused so often. I'll be interested to see if they can sustain a series around this crew over a 5 or 7 year haul.

i wonder

[nancyjane.livejournal.com]

if i'd like Enterprise if I hadn't already been hooked on Next Gen, etc. I think they do ok, but development remains to be seen. Maybe I'm just grasping at straws because I loved Next Gen so much and was increasingly disappointed with DS9 and then Voyager.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer? really?

Re: i wonder

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I loved TNG, as well, but my favorite Star Trek has been Deep Space Nine. Voyager was a let-down, although the cast reshuffles and an improved story line made this show one of those rare shows which was better when it ended than when it began.

I admit I'm totally hooked on both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. That's some of the wittiest writing on television today.

Re: i wonder

[nacowafer.livejournal.com]

I love, love, love Buffy! I'm so pleased to have a Giles action figure at work...he has a sign that says "ask me about authority control." Ahhhh...

And it's true about looking at print media in new ways. I do that, too. Especially with some of the older materials I get to examine at work. I recently cataloged a bunch of New Deal broadsides and fell in love with the use of typography and simple graphic elements. Now there's propoganda! No wonder alot of graphic design these days is retro...because it works! And I will never tire of the Constructivists! Collage gods!

Re: i wonder

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Now I will have to *do a word search using the Google search engine* for information about the constructivist artists.

I have a curious story to relate about
print media and propaganda. In 1994, my wife and I got to visit St. Petersburg as part of a trip my wife was doing as a free lance writer. One of her article topics was the Siege of Leningrad. We were toured about the city by a former Intourist guide who had been a child during the siege. It was very moving, and very sad. One of the stops on our trip was the
Museum of the Blockade. This was a museum
devoted to the siege. The small museum is fascinating--the entire story of the Nazi siege of the city is so filled with heroism, hardship, dastardly deeds, bureaucratic nonsense, and remarkable courage.

One of the exhibits was of posters which Stalin
had had local artists draw--serene landscapes with contented peasants. Even the fact of the siege was to be suppressed as far as possible--artists had to paint only happy things. This was print media as propaganda to the nth degree.
These jolly little pictures could break your heart. I won't discuss the contrasting pictures of the human form in hardship drawn by a gifted someone at the medical teaching hospital.

I am uncertain about the form of the collage--it gives me a discomfort somehow. But I sure like seeing a good one, so I guess it's just one of those nameless discomforts about things about which I don't really know. I will learn more.