Slip and Slide
I bought a slip and slide today.
Before you ask, it was not the megashark slip ‘n slide, also available in 3-d. I could only wish.
The idea of a slip ‘n slide, however, is misguided. Ii mean, you’re taking a running start and diving on to a water filled surface. There is definitely sliding involved, but I don’t think there is slipping. Slipping, to me, involves some accident, a push from the gods that sends you stumbling; reeling, to go with water imagery. No, they need a better name for slip ‘n slides. Unfortunately I’m fresh out of ideas on the matter.
That’s what I’m good at, eh? Bitching about things. If I werne’t me I’d probably be really annoyed by me. Anyways, instead of bitching about something I’m going to say something nice. I’ve always been jealous of thsoe that can create something out of nothing, or those who can change the way in which I look at the world. It’s not an easy thing to do, but it happens nearly every day.
Most of the time, for me, it’s about books and the written word, but I know it happens in music and the other arts as well.
So I’m going to create something. Not sure what it is yet, but i’ll let you know when I figure that out. If it is a book, i’ve got a few things I think I’d liek to talk about, themse and motifs, really. here they are in no particular order:
Oneirology, or the study of dreams. I am not really fleshed out on this one, but I’d like to think there are oneironaugts- people who can change and control dreams. Like a friendly or villainous Freddy Kreuger.
Free-running (non-entrained) sleep.
Phantom Pain
Our blame-everyone-else-but-me society
Twitter and the diarrhea of information we get daily
Perfectionism
Consumerism (ugh)
and a few others that are a little too difficult to explain concisely.