I needed to double-check a date for the final Podcasts I Love post on Saturday, so I found myself in my old blog archives yesterday afternoon. An hour later, I was surprised to discover that I had been reading my own blog for an hour. It was like I was reading something someone else had written, and I really enjoyed the stories from that particular time.
I'm not sure where you're all coming from, but there are an astonishingly huge number of recent new visitors to my little hunk of Internet, and I thought I'd share something from the vault that you probably haven't seen before:
fifty-one seconds in the kitchen
I stood in front of the open refrigerator, and scanned the shelves. Anne spoke to me from the dining room.
"What are you doing?" She said.
"I'm thinking about having a Homer Simpson," I said.
"Donuts and a beer?" She said.
I stood up, a pink box in one hand, an Arrogant Bastard Ale in the other.
"Yeah," I said. "Isn't that horrible?"
"What's horrible," she said, "is that I knew what you were talking about without looking."
I opened up the box. A glazed donut clung to one side, and a devil's food with rainbow jimmies rested next to it. The crumbs and remains of their brothers surrounded them.
"You want to join me?" I said. "There are two donuts left."
"No. That's disgusting." She said. "I think I'll have a Flaming Moe instead."
"Okay," I said, "I'll get the cough syrup."
I love this silly little short story because it tells you almost everything you need to know about me and Anne, and what we're like together. Though the idea of eating a donut totally grosses me out now, if I close my eyes, I can see myself standing in our kitchen, in front of our old refrigerator, holding that flimsy pink box so many years ago.
I'm my own worst critic, and when I look at my acting and writing work, it's hard for me to see anything other than the flaws. But there's enough distance between me and these old entries to just let them exist on their own, and accept that they were the best I could do at the time.
I liked some of the things I read yesterday so much, I'm considering polishing them up and re-releasing them in some nifty way with a bit of context and commentary. Whether that's on my blog, on a podcast, in a book, or some combination of all three is yet to be determined, but I'm putting it on my short list of Crazy Ideas That May Be Awesome, Or Just Crazy.
