sitting backwards in bed

that's what's up, what it is, what it do.

forgotten melodies of indecipherable songs.

fragmented visions of bridge gnomes.

cemented in a custard bowl.

whoa.

Whatever happens happens

by Rena J. Mosteirin

Dec. 9, 2009

A poem for Dave made from davesplat:

Whatever happens happens

A lone basketball hoop in rural Alaska,
plant it / clove by clove / in November,
I brought a pumpkin pie but there was already a pumpkin pie,
I added some hot banana peppers
and he played some sample tape from this collection.
I sat in my awesome crazy creeks and cheered.
Now it’s really late and my ears are ringing. Thinking about
new ways to winterize / in my own little triangle,
performing research on crickets
boiling them in bbq sauce
the score got a little out of control
he showed up and proclaimed
whooooooooooo’s comin with me?

blogger rested

(i'm paying homage to John Updike here...rabbit at rest etc)

well it looks like i took a week off there. a good week of rest. had to reflect on the best of 2009 right? ehhhh maybe not, but i just kinda let the week fly by with no blogging. whoosh!

well, it's super late now and i should be going to sleep, but i thought that blogging needed to be done.

tomorrow i'm getting a carwash. i've wanted a carwash for a while now. my car is so salty and nasty. it's literally covered in like 4 snowstorms worth of salt. grossness. gonna feel so good to get it washed off.

then jeff and i are going to the harvard dartmouth basketball game. let's go green! so long as i live in boston i will go to the harvard dartmouth football game every other year, the harvard dartmouth basketball game every year, consider going to the dartmouth harvard hockey game but end up skipping it, and will most likely not realize that there is a dartmouth harvard baseball game going on.

i'll also likely be sleeping when harvard races dartmouth crew every spring. the year that dartmouth won (in 2006) i was soundly asleep. whooooops.

ok enough ivy league athletics talk, my goodness.

quick aside -- gilbert arenas. you're a bonehead. not sure how to feel about the whole situation, it's just bad all around.

oh yeah it's nfl playoff weekend. let's go pats!

ummm what else. it's been cold, but sunny, which is cool. i've watched a couple episdoes of deep sea salvage, which is a cool show. the celtics lost tonight but i didnt watch it cause i had other stuff going on thankfully.

ok well that's some good rambling i'll blog more and actually write something more interesting this weekend. i have a really good coetzee quote which i'm gonna put up. and Rena's poem, i promise.

in the photo below you will see a giant whoopie pie. it's the largest whoopie pie i have ever seen, or will ever see. i don't remember where it was from in maine, and there was a really funny website that went along with it, maybe i'll try to dig it up.

blogger on rest

taking a lil break here we'll be back momentarily (tmrw?)

ok fine ill write a lil bit but then i gotta go to sleep.

first of all i gotta get it off my chest -- bc basketball lost to maine yesterday. it's going to be very, very hard now for the team to make it to the ncaa tournament. simply devastating. i watched it online and i can't really bear to talk about it, so i'm not going to be writing ANYTHING bc for a while, unless they start winning like every conference game, which isn't looking so good at this point.

i am considering lifting my moratorium on not reading thedartmouth.com. the ban could be lifted this week (but will be reinstated if i read more negative news articles).

oh by the way HAPPY NEW YEAR! it's a new year! and a new decade! can you believe it? pretty nuts.

oh yeah and yesterday i made jerk scallops, jamaican cole slaw, and jamaican corn pone. it was major. i'm gettin pretty good at this cookin and bakin stuff.

here's a cool photo. i should really do my songs/bands/albums of 09, but it's gonna take a lil thought.

ps -- i watched inglourious basterds and loved it. good movie.

cowdog

hey i gotta write some more but right now i just gotta get a couple links out there (and i gotta put the poem up, procrastination ughhh...)

first, here's an article about just that, procrastination! something that we all know well. i feel that a lot of people i know would call themselves procrastinators, but i really think it's a universal thing. and can you blame us? we all have enough things to worry about.

anyway, this article is about putting off pleasurable things. it makes me wanna visit local landmarks and use the couple gift certificates in my wallet.

Findings - The Psychology Behind Putting Off What Can Be Enjoyed Now

now here's a bumout of an op ed also from nytimes. it starts with the premise that we (the world!) never bothered to name this decade. can you believe it? on december 31st, 1999, noone knew what we were gonna call the decade ahead of us. all people cared about was that y2k was gonna break every computer and the sky would come crashing down.

now it's almost december 31, 2009, and we have no idea what to call the past ten years. TEN YEARS! we've had a while to think about it but never came up with something intelligent and acceptable. heck, we could have come up with something unintelligent and it probably would have stuck. now, as much as ever, we have way too many things to worry about to care what our grandchildren will call this past decade.

this article is about how this decade did not create jobs and how this decade did not make peoples houses more valuable.

The Big Zero

i like this photo just cause of that guy's beard. that's some beard!

o ya o ya

bc lost. it's cool tho. good season, lotsa fun.

celtics lost. bad loss. rondo missed free throws. baron davis dominating our scene.

holidays still going on. still having fun.

here's a cool link and a photo of the big swimming pool on the top of Titan

NASA reveals first-ever photo of liquid on another world - CNN.com

i'll write more luego. hasta pronto.

game day

"Though some may question how motivated USC will be to play in a non-Bowl Championship Series game for the first time in eight years, there is no mistaking Boston College's intensity. There were fights during practice."

EMERALD BOWL / A matchup that sparkles

im pretty excited to watch this game. t minus 9 hours. i'm gonna make jerk chicken again. i got a food processor for xmas so im gonna go to whole foods and hopefully buy some REAL habanero or scotch bonnet peppers and make some legit fiery jerk rub.

let's go eagles! beat the trojans!

christmas day 2009

and i am still not capitalizing words.

i'm typing on the keyboard of my parents computer. i am not used to it, and my long arms and large hands and dry cracked fingers are awkwardly placed.

i just read 60 pages or so of the new j.m. coetzee novel "summertime". it's very metafiction. i wrote a long, confusing paper on coetzee's book "in the heart of the country" and how it was metafiction and how it jived with another story called "in the heart of the heart of the country", not by coetzee. i used too many quotations.

at one point i remember being in the river ranch in vermont and having countless books and printouts surrounding me in the living room and my bedroom. i began the paper by typing up the quotes in a word doc that i wanted to use in the paper. it was a lot of work. i distinctly remember barely leaving the house for a week. this was during the winter of 2005.

now, i continue to read coetzee. this book is fiction, but it is simultaneously a biography, and also i believe metafiction. of course coetzee would not offer something as conventional as an autobiography. this book is very, very good. buy a copy if you enjoy reading about dreary south african settings and details of relationships.

i may have uploaded this photo before, but at least it contains water.

merry christmas!

merry christmas everyone! it's a white christmas and there is plenty of good cheer. i had a fantastic birthday and i am so grateful to everyone. thank you so much.

wow

wow i'm almost the tiredest i've ever been but i just had two epic nights in a row and feelin pretty good. ill recap everything soon.

i also have a christmas card poem to post. stay tuned.

omg merry christmas.

of forked flashes

sweltering mangrove forests of emerald tree trunk.

contrasting shadows obscuring reflective screens.

swirling yellow plumes of liquid dyed smoke.

two toned astral planes of two dimensional audio grids.

white mountain cliffs sliding off of bobbing glaciers.

finger digits spidery retreating and advancing.

snow crystals of cloud drip luminescence.

SAY SOMETHING

SAY SOMETHING BY DRAKE WITH THE TIMBALAND BEAT IS CURRENTLY THE SONG THAT I CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO

REWIND, REWIND, REWIND

the new mixtape "Drake Born Successful 2 (Re-Loaded Edition)" is FIRE. that boy drake is droppin HITS! do i sound like a dj on jamn 94.5? oh well. i'm lovin this stuff. tapemasters INC.

oh yeah ps did i mention that i've started listening to the hot 97, a lot? in case you didnt know, 97.7 used to be the only decent hip hop station in boston, but then WAAF took it over. now, i used to be a fan of WAAF, but now i am a way bigger fan of hip hop, dancehall, rnb etc.

so yeah. i heard through kane that alex had said that there was some guy broadcasting a pirate radio station from the blue hills. the blue hills are what the name Massachusetts comes from ("at or about the great hill". have i ever mentioned that before?). so i poke around on the radio dial and then i found the NEW hot 97.

87.7FM. or 87.8FM, depending on whether you're in your car or at home.

here's the link. prepare to be a little overwhelmed. i think you can listen online though -- Hot 97 Boston WPOT

i listen to it a lot. it's good times. no ads, just promos and stuff. so yeah, doesnt sound like theyre making any money off it. but it's THE hot 97, even though its really 87.

so yeah my guess why the authorities arent shutting it down is because they arent making any money off it and because they do community building stuff and play public service messages and that kinda stuff. so good for them! the volunteers and everyone making it happen because a lot of ppl are listening to them.

good times. thanks for the comments everyone, you get me amped.

SO much snow outside. i'll post some more.

hugs, Dave

what's up

what's up folks how's it going. the storm is here. it's cold and windy outside. i'm warm and comfy inside, thankfully. i think my christmas shopping is almost done! what a relief. i've only gotten stuff for mom, dad, brother, and the kid i picked from the giving tree, but i'm still feeling pretty good about it. i went to the new balance store and tj maxx today and i think im pretty much done. those stops combined with an online order to fogdog.com have me in pretty good shape. i might just pick up one or two random more things but other than that im done! yayyyy.

i hear it's cold and snowy in many places. craaaazy out there. i went out last night with some folks, hit up cask n flagon and tequila rain lol, good times. very late night but it was fun. slept in today, i was gonna go to the apple store cause my screen is messed up, but im hoping that it goes away. ugh, stupid lcd screens

yup im just listening to a little dubstep.fm, gotta try to go to bed here in the next hour. let's see, the other day i watched the movie "the bad lieutenant: port of call new orleans" with nicolas cage directed by werner herzog. pretty ridiculous. good times.

oya and umass beat bc. it was awesome. i watched with rob b. then we played call of duty 2 obviously.

aright ill cya

whoa

whoaaaaa

yess

hey hows it goin.

here's a link

Scientists spot nearby 'super-Earth'

crazy! except if it's 40 light years away, we gotta get ourselves some hyperdrive technology or something. cause i ain't sitting in a spaceship for 40 years, i'll tell ya that much!

yo

yo how's it going i gotta go to sleep

but i went to the gym today. massive success. first time in a while. did cardio, weights, jumping exercises. huge play outta me.

gotta start holiday shopping soon. store lines intimidate me. TARGET intimidates me.

i gotta get a carwash. i cant really do much creative right now, i just wanted to keep the blogging ball rolling. looks like it's gonna be cold the next couple of days. oh boy! shouldn't be too bad tho. i'm used to it by now.

i wanna go skiing but it's probably gonna have to wait til january, unless i can somehow get all of my christmas shopping done in the next three days.

here's a photo i took in cali.

ok adios amigos.

hey

hey what's up. i wrote that little bit of creativeness on the airplane. i also wrote a journal entry for myself. 4180 words. i wrote it over the course of the long flight. i almost got the bends on landing this time too. luckily i chewed gum for every minute of the flight.

not sure if blogging makes me feel normal or weird now.

but i wrote an unbelieble amount on that plane ride. read a bunch too. i got this new vonnegut book called "armageddon in retrospect" and i really like it. wow i cant even get myself to capitalize a vonnegut title.

aright ill try to put up less sports photos, but right now i dont have enough of a selection

CREATIVE AIRPLANE WRITING

The transitions in pressure and altitude in an airplane over the desert expand and contract the craniums of seat-belted passengers. With packets of gum they combat the squeezing of eyesockets and the stiff vice which wedges temples. The available overhead controls simulate the breeze and the sun, allowing a climatic input to grace cheeks.

The bends lie in steerage, dormant until a half hour before landing, when they rev up their tornado bodies and crawl up to the lifejacket seat bottoms, where they infiltrate the arm rest. From here, they turn into vapor and ride a siphoning eddy to the ear.

extremely quick post before i get on the airplane

i'm on wireless here at the airport and gotta get something out before i get on the plane

i had a good trip, i just got an overpriced turkey baguette, i'm looking forward and not looking forward to getting home for various reasons, i'm enjoying blogging more, i wanna go skiing.

not 100% sure if im gonna make this trip again next year as i might need to start mixing it up.

ok i gotta go wait in line, later, Dave

not reading the d anymore

there are a lot other links i wanna put up and a lot of other stuff i should be talking about and i should be recapping my cali trip so far but i gotta get this outta the way first -- i'm going to be actively not reading the dartmouth anymore.

the d = The Dartmouth - America's oldest college newspaper

i don't think i'm fabricating when i say that i've read every issue of the d since arriving on campus in september 2001. seems a little ridiculous to say, but i'm a big reader of newspapers and online articles. both when i've been on campus and when i've been off campus, i've kept up with it. during each fall, winter, and spring semester, the d is published 5 times a week. during the summer semester its only published twice a week.

at campus i would always pick up a copy of it to read during lunch. after graduation i have always checked it online devotedly. i've read many, many, many issues of the dartmouth. mostly for the hanover police blotter (just kidding, i like reading the rowing recaps too. just kidding, i read the news and arts stuff, but avoid the op eds).

but i'm sick of reading the d and hearing about the latest screw up by current dartmouth undergradates. or budget cuts. both topics are horrible. so i'm going to try to force myself to not start typing t-h-e-d into the address menu of firefox during the weekdays. today's day 1.

come on dartmouth students (slash dartmouth guys) -- behave yourself. please. then i will start reading my beloved college newspaper again.

-Dave