This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day, sunny, though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet, not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions, the passage of time, new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine, just out of the box, wheareas 2004 sounds (already), old, scratched, a little battered, like my camera cellphone (which I bought in 2004). This blog is one of the transitions for the new year. I've started it This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day, sunny, though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet, not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions, the passage of time, new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine, just out of the box, wheareas 2004 sounds (already), old, scratched, a little battered, like my camera cellphone (which I bought in 2004). This blog is one This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day, sunny, though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet, not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions, the passage of time, new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine, just out of the box, wheareas 2004 sounds (already), old, scratched, a little battered, like my camera This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day, sunny, though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet, not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions, the passage of time, new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine, just out of the box, wheareas 2004

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Surrealist Synchronicity

1:40 PM Thursday, July 28, 2005

[So much to write about, so little time ]

Up to now, when I've written something for the Coffeeblog, I've waited until I have a time block long enough to muse, write, rewrite, daydream, and brood. Now, I have to be somewhere important in 53 minutes with a 15-minute drive. Can I write this? Can I get it all done with no need for major revisions before I go out the door? Will the deadline aid and abet creativity or stifle it? We'll find out. Synchronicity, rock on!

So much to write about, so little time. Online social networking. Affogato. My new laptop. My old Handspring PDA. Moleskines. The arts establishment. Tango. Renato Carosone. Gods. Myths. Monotheism. Nihilism. Ayelet Waldman. Starbucks. Tully's. Wingnuts and Moonbats (not in this blog, buster.)

Henry Miller liked to write lists like this. His lists were funny as hell and he put them smack dab in the middle of whatever else he was writing. Probably some kind of Surrealist "automatic writing" thing.

Henry Miller. Add him to the list! Surrealism. Andre Breton. Antonin Artaud, the Mad Monk. Thelonious Monk. John Coltrane. Soul Train. All Souls Episcopal Church. The Vatican. Leonard Peikoff. Existence exists, A is A. The Oakland A's. Hey, this is fun. Anybody still reading? Am I really writing? Sure, why not. It's a blog, isn't it? You can put anything you want to into a blog. You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant.

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