Sigh.

[mrissa]

I have mentioned before that I have an eight-track mind, yes? That my brain is generally humming away at several things at once? Well, this morning, two of the tracks are playing Synopsis Mad Libs with each other to pass the time. "In a world gone TANGY, one GROTTO can make a difference in the fight against JANSENISM," that sort of thing. If I think about it consciously, it stops, so that's something, at least. I won't have to go through the day with, "A PHLEBOTOMIST from an ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST COMMUNE must BACKSTROKE against the FROGS," running through my head indefinitely. But nonetheless, here we are.

Brains. Tricksy things.

Comments

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

"In a world gone CHALK-FLAVORED, one SHOEHORN can make a difference in the CHA-CHA against TASSELS."

"A SEXTON from a TUTTI-FRUTTI TAQUERIA must GLUESTICK against the NEMATODES."

Oh, saints. *hunts for the stereo switch for own brain*

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

If you were my mom, I would start singing madrigals in Elmer Fudd voice, because that gets just about anything out of her head. Of course, it gets the other stuff out in favor of Fudd madrigals, so....

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm not sure my senses need to be that beFUDDled...

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

I'd take your mad libs if it would rid me of the nagging impression that something is continually playing the "Windows sound" *almost* out of earshot.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Oh no, now you're giving me ideas...

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

When I read the words, "I have an eight-track mind" I immediately thought, archaic technology from the 70's.

I'm glad you explained.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That is, in fact, why I chose 8 and not 7 or 9 or, more accurately and more generally, N.

When I was 11, one of my friends was over, and we decided we wanted to listen to Rachmaninoff, and my folks only had that on 8-track. So we put it in. We had never been introduced to the concept of continuous play from an 8-track, so...we knew that themes recurred in concerti, and that we should expect to hear similar bits repeating, but it seemed like really similar bits, repeating with an odd regularity....

Eventually my mom came into the room and demanded, "How many times are you going to listen to those three pieces, anyway?" She was much amused to hear the explanation. Almost as amused as she was when I was reading the Travis McGee books this summer and turned to her in all seriousness to ask if she knew that you used to have to open cans of beer with a can opener.

Have you seen ...

[fmi-agent.livejournal.com]

... the Random Logline Generator (http://www.lifeformz.com/cgi-bin/idea/idea.cgi)?

Re: Have you seen ...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I had not.

I am amused.