a few quick thoughts

Verily it is so: I am addicted to the Internet. Yesterday it went out where I was working, and even though in fact the whole point of my being where I was was to focus on work instead of, say, e-mail and Fæcebook, I found every couple of minutes that I had this insane, inane, unthinking drive to check it again, like, "Is it up? Can I get on Gmail?" Not that there was anything in particular I actually needed or even wanted to see: it would have been one thing if I'd been writing and had wanted to look up a word or check a fact or something, but no, it was more automatic, less rational than that. Terrifying. I kept stopping myself and thinking, "Wow, I've got to just try and remember that I don't even want to be on the Internet: its absence is a blessing," and then 60 seconds later I'd be like, "Fæcebook?" Like a goldfish. Users are losers and losers are users, so KILL YOUR COMPUTER, KILL YOUR COMPUTER.

Speaking of which, I gave Twitter a try. I was on for, oh, about two minutes. I don't get it. I wrote something about the Red Hot Chili Peppers song "If You Have to Ask," which I like. That whole album kind of rose from the ashes for me the other day...I like the Rick Rubin production. Generally I can't stand the Chili Peppers, but this album has a pretty amazing sound that brings me back to 1991 (in a good way—like, minus the inability to talk to girls). Anyway, writing that took five seconds; the rest of the two minutes I spent changing and re-changing my Twitter username.

I had the "compost cookie" at Momofuku, and it's the greatest thing ever. Then I looked online and found all these jokers talking about how it's no good. The compost cookie? No good? People, if I had to choose between ALL YOUR LIVES and a single compost cookie, the veil of darkness would soon fall before you, lemme tell ya... Naw, I'm just messing with you guys, you know I love you.

VEIL OF DARKNESS.

Feel I haven't gotten much done here lately because (a) the Internet's been down, and (b) I'm trying to focus on fiction. The good news for Alt85 is I feel this kind of opinion-dumping and critical–analytical thinking doesn't actually belong in my fiction and it's good to separate it out...

Of course, hm, now that I think actually about it, I realize really only just took off a long weekend, the long weekend that we all just had.

Evidently I need more sleep. A lot more.

In case you haven't seen this (or, like me, haven't seen it since 2005):

This one I haven't seen since 2006:

Genuinely frightening! Brilliant. The only misstep is calling it Scary Mary: they should have just left it Mary Poppins. Ah, well.

That's it for now. You know you love me!

xoxo

VEIL OF DARKNESS