Sipsey Street Irregulars: Going to try to chase that black dog out of the office.

Friday, June 21, 2013

Going to try to chase that black dog out of the office.

Will spend some time on Absolved. More later.

3 comments:

Carl said...: A little double entendre?; June 21, 2013 at 9:41 AM
Ashrak said...: When that black dog hounds you relentlessly and feeding it doesn't work, ignoring it doesn't work and just trying to force through the barking and pestering, try this....

Write about personal life experience totally unrelated to the topic you do actually want to write about. Crank out memory based sentences one right after the other of childhood memories like a meal your mom made that you absolutely refused to eat. Go right into the next thought you have about another childhood memory, and again to the next.

As the paragraphs crank out - keeping in mind that they offer no rhyme or reason, this random thought exercise will eventually produce a sentence or two that you set aside for use in what you actually want to write about.

We all know that even as you try to put out of your mind that topic in order to try this exercise - it will still linger. But then that's what makes this exercise successful sometimes! Give it a try once Mike. Just type out whatever you are thinking in the moment. Heck, if your first thought is that I'm absolutely full if it - then start there. Write that. Then, write the next thought.

You never know, the product may turn out to be a funny collection of random thought your family can enjoy years and years from now. Though generally it just ends up being so random that it makes no sense. But that's the point! Send the jibberish out so that you clear the area of the dog that is so bothersome at times.; June 21, 2013 at 1:03 PM
General Secretary Barack Obama said...: Citizen, the title of this posting appears to be not only treasonous in the extreme, but also a prime exemplar of "dat rayciss".; June 21, 2013 at 1:19 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Going to try to chase that black dog out of the office.

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