Now Comes the Clever Bit (wait for it…)
Posted by: Ron in Tohuw.Net News, tags: blagosphere, no one cares“You get this bath, see? Imagine you’ve got this bath. And it’s ebony. And it’s conical.”
“Conical?” said Arthur, “What sort of …”
“Shhh!” said Ford. “It’s conical. So what you do is, you see, you fill it with fine white sand, alright? Or sugar. Fine white sand, and/or sugar. Anything. Doesn’t matter. Sugar’s fine. And when it’s full, you pull the plug out … are you listening?”
“I’m listening.”
“You pull the plug out, and it all just twirls away, twirls away you see, out of the plughole.”
“I see.”
“You don’t see. You don’t see at all. I haven’t got to the clever bit yet. You want to hear the clever bit?”
“Tell me the clever bit.”
“I’ll tell you the clever bit.”
Ford thought for a moment, trying to remember what the clever bit was.
“The clever bit,” he said, “is this. You film it happening.”
“Clever.”
“That’s not the clever bit. This is the clever bit, I remember now that this is the clever bit. The clever bit is that you then thread the film in the projector … backwards!”
“Backwards?”
“Yes. Threading it backwards is definitely the clever bit. So then, you just sit and watch it, and everything just appears to spiral upwards out of the plughole and fill the bath. See?”
“And that’s how the Universe began is it?” said Arthur.
“No,” said Ford, “but it’s a marvellous way to relax.”
Sometimes I think Douglas Adams wrote my brain. I’ve had this site awhile now, but am just now getting around to buckling down and blogging properly. Properly as in, rambling on about things and hoping, desperately, some of it is interesting and makes sense. In the business, we call this creative writing. Creative writing is a lot like normal writing, but it’s much more important to feel terribly clever when writing creatively. A certain degree of pomposity is required. I’ll call it confidence at parties and to girlfriends.
Besides writing, which I feel I’ve exposited enough to turn your stomach by now, I also co-host a radio show, run an eSports syndicate, and pretend that I’ll eventually get around to vlogging. All that being said, this pile of nonsense will be about all the things I told myself I wouldn’t put in a blog, if I ever got around to making one. This means there will be the occassional discussion of people and politics, some music reviews, and some boring everyday sort of things (everyday is anything but boring!).
So, this blog is decidedly about nothing. We’ll see where it goes.
