I'm not exactly sure where I'm going with this, but I thought it was high time I started a blog. I started a MySpace thingamajig and was very unimpressed (except that I was found by an old high school friend, so that was nice). I've had some setbacks (please don't forget the dash in my address or you'll get someone else's ashcan rantings. Sorry, folks, I know you were here first, but that's been my planned website name since approximately 2000 -- I daresay before the "blog" was even invented, per se -- so you'll have to excuse me), but I think I shall overcome.
So I don't know how much of an intro this really is. I'll have to figure out how to operate this baby, put more in the "about me" section, etc. The name of this lil' blog comes from Howl, by Allen Ginsberg. It's just always seemed to fit my style -- rantings, of course, if you know me, is what you'll probably mostly see. Ashcan sort of fits the eclectic variety of crap I tend to talk about, plus it's probably all rather throwaway. But if you want to dumpster dive, you might find something worthwhile. Mostly it saves me from feeling pretentious later with ashcan right in the title. Nowhere did I claim they were literary rantings! And it's a nod to some of my favorite writers, the Beats.
I just feel it necessary to immortalize the weather in my inaugural blog: it's FUCKING COLD OUT. Ok, that decides it -- I will not be giving my mother the link to this. Might as well get the pottymouth out there up front. It is, I believe, the coldest stretch in 11 years -- the temp isn't expected to go above 0, yes, zero degrees fahrenheit, for like 86 hours straight. Sweet! I'm sure in a few months I'll be bitching that it's 100 degrees out. Damn non-Minnesotans just don't get it. Insane weather extremes here. Love it. (Hate the extremes, love the fact that I feel so smug and tough compared to weenies the likes of which you find in San Diego and Honolulu. Even Massachusetts! All due respect to the weenies, by the way. You all know you are, though.) Anyway, I'm having some trouble typing becacuse it's 59 degrees in my apartment, and my fingers are slightly frozed. BRRRRS!
That's all for now, I think. Will write more when my fingers have limbered up a little. Or I have more to say. Off to my one-woman anti-superbowl party! (In which I watch DVD's and drink bloody marys.)
Sunday, February 4, 2007
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Yay for the year of Kristina!!!
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