Once again I've been inspired by another blogger. Inter-blogging inspiration seems to be a good feature of the blogosphere, although I don't know why it has to be a sphere. Can't it be amorphous like one of those "energy fields" in the old Star Trek TV series?
A Scribble or a Sonnet wrote, "What should [or maybe it was "can"] I say when I have nothing to say?" Fabulous question. The most popular answer might be "Nothing," but we mustn't stop there. A Scribble or a Sonnet came up with the most elegant answer, arguably, which was the question itself, which was something to say.
If my father were alive, he would say, of blogging, "What a goddamned waste of time." He would need to know some practical reason for blogging. On the other hand, if there were (and I'm sure there are) bloggers that write about the sub-culture of those who keep hound dogs, especially "coon dogs," he would read that blog. It's a fascinating sub-culture that, in a way, has absolutey nothing to do with raccoons.
One of my brothers would say, "Tell them about the time you . . . ." and then he would reference some comical calamity from my past.
Queen Victoria might have said, "We do not know what blogs are. We are unimpressed."
Homer, Whitman, or Ginsberg--or some other poet who likes to catalogue items in his or her poetry--would make a list of all the reasons why s/he doesn't appear to have anything to say.
One could also make a list of the different ways there are to say nothing.
How is the equivalent of "nothing" pronounced, say, in Abrabic, Farsi, Swahili, Portuguese [close to "nada" or not?], Japanese, and so forth?
3 comments:
Full Cry is still going strong:
http://www.treehound.com/html/fullcry.html
Also, this:
http://www.coondawgs.com/
And if you're some kind of goddamn flatlander:
http://urbancoonies.blogspot.com/
/Heetchee/ in farsi and /Leet-aw/ in Sesotho, my mother tongue. In French? "Rien", pronounced /Ree-young/
Frost might have enjoyed this, and would have perhaps told us about a man who blogged his way because blogging was what he was all about, far into the reaches of his youth.
Cummings might have insisted that glee was a glad blog.
I'd have loved to have heard Plath on this one. She'd have found some catastrophe linked to blogging:
Screen, you do not seem
to understand the lifting of my skin.
lol. But we unfortunately can't hear these voices anew.
another "nothing":
कुछ नहीं (/kootch nahee(n)/ - a sort of nasalized noise) translates literally to 'not something' in hindi. one of the few phrases i remember!
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