I have had a few ideas for blogging today. Topic ideas: What I hate about the New Year. Why don't people in St. Cloud use their turn signals. Things I think about when I should be sleeping. My new hobby. Rich people suck. People are dumb. What is wrong with me (a semi-comprehensive list). The last book I read. Cuteness.
CuteOverload has a link to a NY Times article on, guess what, The Cuteness Factor. "The rapidity and promiscuity of the cute response makes the impulse suspect." Later on in the article, "...cute images stimulate the same pleasure centers of the brain aroused by sex, a good meal or psychoactive drugs like cocaine, which could explain why everybody in the panda house wore a big grin."
Please give me topics to blog about. I am sick of my ideas.
Sweetie, go to the nearest Barnes and Noble and buy yourself a copy of Bust Magazine. If that doesn't give you some empowering ideas and get you to stop beating yourself up, I'm gonna drive up to St. Cloud and kick your ass.
ReplyDeleteYou are in a rut. Reading some new material will help.
Once you do that, here is another idea. Take a deep breath, acknowledge that the post-holiday coma takes a few days to get over, and go moon the neighbors (or flash them your chest, that might be fun.)
Then come back and tell us about it.
Don't pretend to be happy when you aren't. Last idea: compose a 1000 word rant about all the things you hate about winter or your job or chain restaurants or coffee or something. Get creative. Tell us how you hate something with the passion of a thousand burning suns.
*big hugs*
And relax. Relaxing will do a lot to bring in new ideas.
You should write about your white hot center.
ReplyDeleteBloggo: WHat?!
ReplyDeleteMichele:thanks, I didn't realize I sounded that way. I will work on a rant or something.
Sorry, inside Hamline joke: a pulitizer prize winning author taught a writing workshop two years ago and kept talking about writing "from your white hot center". We all found this quite humerous. Again, my appologies for the obscurity of said reference.
ReplyDeleteRegarding my center: as far as I can tell, it's pretty dark in there and mostly filled with goo.
ReplyDeleteI looked at your list and thought, "hey, that's my list." Actually, I suspect it is everybody's list. I think it's more about how you approach it than it is anything you have to say.
You should research some really odd sexual fetishes and do a whole series of informative and non-judgemental blogs on them. I'd read it.
ReplyDeleteYou know when I said that everyone has the same list of blog topics, Am? I was wrong.
ReplyDeletedoes loving cuteoverload.com make me a freak?
ReplyDeletemy center is squishy and slightly cooler than the rest of me
ReplyDeleteLike an eggplant.
ReplyDeleteWhackly, it's normal. Unless it's a fetish, and if it is, please don't tell us.
ReplyDeleteAmVy, where should I start? I could make it a weekly feature.
I might write of, or to my white hot center, but from? Sounds ishy.
My white hot center has no interest in writing. My white hot center cares only for snack foods.
ReplyDeleteSee if you can find anything on genuphilia, which would be the fetishizing of knees. I just made it up using the Greek for 'knees', and the suffix 'philia', but it probably exists.
It didn't Google, so maybe it doesn't exist. How about this one: rupophilia.
ReplyDeleteI found nothing...so far. I shan't rest until I do! Well, maybe a quick nap.
ReplyDeleteI got something on Rusophilia:
ReplyDelete"Rusophilia was/is the view that there is a common single East-Slavic nation."
Then there's this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elio_Di_Rupo
I have to do everything.
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting website, but did you see the section where he says HIV is a myth?
ReplyDeleteNo. I didn't read it at all. Do I really need his permission and acceptance if I want to be deviant?
ReplyDeleteShall I strike the link? Well, you can. I won't be hurt.
Nah. What's interesting to me about paraphilias/fetishes/perversions is: what is the line between expression and pathology? That is clumsily phrased, sorry.
ReplyDeleteDid you find the term rupophilia there? I'm not seeing it.
The mixture of expression and pathology--that's the beauty of something like Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis.
ReplyDeleteIt's been hours of entertainment and inspiration for me.
Whatever fiction works, you know?
Oh, dear.
ReplyDeleteClurg, I am never going to read that. Ever never ever never never. But yeah, whatever works for ya.
Doordolt: is that a vote for coprophilia?
Michele, I didn't feel threatened, really.
A.- shut yer yap.
Rupophilia should describe a dirt fetish.Krafft-Ebing's book is really a good read, although what is described as criminally deviant behavior in the book. when compared with what is considered run-of-the-mill today, is pretty sad. All those people living in fear and shame just because they like shiny boots!
ReplyDeleteSee, SD, you haven't even started and already there's a comment storm on the fetishes. This is totally the way to go.
Dirtiness. Good times.
ReplyDeletetemporary lay offs, good times
ReplyDeleteMichele, I just reread your suggestion about flashing... probably not going to take that one.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading that fetishes are sometimes formed by traumatic experiences, does that mean they are wrong? But aren't most lives shaped significantly by trauma, and why should sex be any different? It's like character building, but they also have to dress up like Superman to get off.