Consuming…
Air conditioning services
David Mitchell’s Number9Dream
The
usual meds
In a Jiggling the Handle exclusive, I’m pleased to announce we’re kicking off a Summer Blogbuster Event that
hankers to combine the excitement of War of the Worlds with the quality of used car commercials with the mousepad
mania of the Letterman Top Ten Contest!
Starting yesterday, and for the next 9 days, I will be submitting
ha!kus to the
poetry.com haiku contest. Not ordinary ha!kus. No siree. They will be self-referential, introspective commentary about what it’s like for a haiku
to spend eternity thermally-bonded to a mousepad.
The count will progress (digress?) from 10 to 1 in true Lettermanly fashion.
Inspirations for this event included:
- Confusion about which “photo above” to use for inspiration
- My well-documented obsession with mousepads
- The likelihood I won’t be seeing any more mousepads from the Letterman organization
- Musings about the kind of haikus I’D like to see on a mousepad
- Perhaps, some unconscious anticipation of the upcoming Space Shuttle launch
- A desire to share my gift with poetry-lovers everywhere!
Submissions will be posted
here daily and updated with news about whether any make the “21 closest entries” or (heaven forbid) win.
Seems like the perfect mid-summer night's blend of top ten lists, haiku, and tacky amateurish cowplop.
Sniff. Ahhhh, that new mousepad smell.
Quote of the Day…
“You’re like a steamed vegetable … only smarter.” – SpongeBob
Squarepants, Season 2
