Even Though It Has A Subject, This Post Has No Real Subject

[ontology]

MOTHER (cooking upstairs): Could you get me some crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, and red wine?
BANUI: Er, I can't find the red wine. All I can find is sherry, vodka, rum, and tequila!

Er. No. It's not what you think. My father is a former baker. I swear. The vodka is probably three years old. All the same, we do have this little cache of alcoholic beverages above the kitchen counter, which amuses me. (Why is the rum gone?)

I wrote a poem today and am trying to decide what I think of it. I'm really trying to make my poetry different--after I wrote "The Poet in Exile", it made me see more clearly why it worked so well when most of my other poems haven't. And um, no, you really don't want to see the bad, almost quasi-gothic tripe I was writing a year ago. Sure, most of it was honest, but it bubbled with angst, and my metaphors were, um...nausea-inducing: lots of "shattered" and "burning" and "bleeding" and such. This is why I have Ian commenting sardonically about some of his students' poetry in a future, unwritten tuesday_skyline vignette. It's a way to exorcise the old demons of Bad Writing. I also have something bouncing about in my head involving Ian and Greek, but...er, yeah. My Skyline muse seems to be going wonky these days. I have a bunch of little things that I keep scribbling, and I like what they're doing, but I don't like what I'm doing with them, if that makes any sense. 

Also, I read the infamous I Kissed Dating Goodbye t'other day, and John Holzmann's Dating With Integrity and might actually come out with a somewhat serious post eventually on my views on romantic relationships, teenage, mine, and otherwise. (Don't take that as me saying that I actually have a relationship that I'm not telling you about. Eurgh.) Brief verdict: I Kissed Dating Goodbye had the best cover, but Joshua Harris isn't the best writer. I agreed with a lot of what he said, but the point remains that he is an unmarried (at least at the time of writing) twenty-something. Dating With Integrity: much better written, especially since John Holzmann is obsessed with research. I didn't agree with everything he said, but he also said in his foreword that I probably wouldn't, which made me smile. Also: John Holzmann is one of the coolest people, ever. Besides the fact that he and his wife founded Sonlight Curriculum, even. He is also much, much, much smarter than I will ever be, but that's okay. I would not be half as intelligent as I am if it weren't for him. (Nor would I recognise bias half so well!)

Comments

[princess-alya.livejournal.com]

I agreed with Josh Harris more than Holzmann. You should read Boy Meets Girl... it's better than IKDG.

*waves* Yeah, I actually looked at LJ again. :)

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

I should...I much prefer the opinion of a bloke who's been-there-done-that to a bloke who's still looking about. Of course, I already have very opinionated views on the subject, so any books I read merely serve to give me food for thought and more of a concrete idea as to what I believe. ^-^ (Er. I'm very opinionated. I'm sure you had no idea. :p)