I love ancient poets who refer to themselves in the third person. Usually this involves some praise of simple pleasure. Take Alkman for example who wrote in the middle of the Seventh Century B.C.E.

Get him that enormous cauldron on the tripod

so he can bloat his stomach with every food.

It is cool but soon will boil with good soup

which gobbler Alkman likes sparkling hot,

especially in the cold season of the solstice.

The glutton Alkman abstains from fancy dishes

but like the demos eats a plain massive meal.

I might try writing that way a bit. Might help the practice of focusing on the simple things and not crazy dreams of circumnambulating the world or finding pokemon. "Gotta Catch 'em All."


LINKS:

Crooks and Liars is displaying part of Colbert's performance at the White House Correspondent's Dinner and sarcastically nailed almost every major issue. Crooks and Liars notes, "As he walked from the podium the president and First Lady gave Colbert quick nods, unsmiling, and left. E&P's Joe Strupp, in the crowd, observed that quite a few felt the material was, perhaps, uncomfortably biting." Yeah, and President Bush's video in which he "searched" for Weapons of Mass Destruction under the White House furniture was all in good humor.

Onegoodmove has some of the rest.

Some good news is air quality is actually improving slightly.

Turns out that whole Bosnian Pyramid story was hype. I was kinda suspicious but when I saw BBC reporting on it, I thought oh, ok. Guess everyone has been duped.