Dial M: “What’s your favorite word?”
Motherfucker.
Category: daily prompt
Beer and football XV — training camp/the condensed-replay preseason
Paging Stanley Morgan: “Name the professional athletes you respect the most and why” The beer: Peroni Lager The headline: “I wanna be your favorite dog, baby.” – Andre Williams, “I Wanna Be Your Favorite Pair of Pajamas” The commentary: Today it’s “Day One” asking about respectable athletes, at training camp in early August it was […]
Extend an invitation to the most annoying people of the world
Boom goes the cannon: “List three books that have had an impact on you and why” Days-old daily prompt? Week-late Volume 16? It must be an election year! Two apostrophe-S authors drove much of the playlist this year. Joe Banks’s Hawkwind: Days of the Underground—Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia provides a sub-subtitle for our […]
Beer and football XIV — aftermath
Replicating success: “Where do you see yourself in ten years?” The beer: Harpoon Celtic Red Ale The headline: “Can you picture what will be?” – Doors, “The End” The commentary: (Continued.) Captain Beefheart’s “Bills Corpse” is a missed opportunity, sure, but Trout Mask Replica and its collection of bush recordings get plenty of love in […]
Hard or soft: “What do you complain about the most?”
I’ve been trying to pronounce “bloganuary” for a damn month.
Not once: “If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say?”
First of all it would read, not say. Come on. Years ago I was browsing stock imagery and stumbled across one of what appeared to be a family of tennis players. This photo is two kinds of gonzo—it’s so specific and staged and weird, but also nowhere to be found on the internet any longer. […]
Password reset-O-rama: “What colleges have you attended?”
I don’t know, what was your first car, and who was the childhood best friend you picked up on the way to high school—called what now?—and then your first job—doing what now?—and, later, the football game to cheer on the fighting… whozits? There is daily-prompt transparency, there is identity-theft transparency and there is whatever the […]
Bigger logos: “How are you creative?”
It’s my job. Also, I can’t settle on which colors I like best for the blog, which is part of the goddamn creative process forever and ever. These beer-and-football “diary mission statement” playlists don’t write themselves, either. This Patriot season’s reads like bewilderment.
Heavy petting: “Name your top three pet peeves”
Aside from the obvious answer of entitled/manipulated Trump supporters, fake Christians and self-described crackpot “free-thinkers” who do their own research—generally the same population of scum—my pet peeves are varieties of senselessness: 1. Rude behavior It is easy to be kind. To be rude takes effort, whether one goes full “Fuck your feelings!” or is purposefully […]
Beer and football XIV — week eleven (bye)
Faulty machinery: “What book are you reading right now?” The beer: Schilling Alexandr Czech-Style Pilsner The record: 2–8 The headline: “It’s not complete! I must compete!” – Jay Reatard, “Waiting for Something” The commentary: I’m a few days late with this former daily prompt but I needed a theme for the bye week. Remember that […]
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