In Palinode's Palace: the race to bed

Sunday, June 15, 2008

the race to bed

The end of the day. Everything winding down, the universe spiraling into nothingness. About 11 pm.

Palinode: It's getting late.

Schmutzie: Kinda.

Palinode: I'm going to write for half an hour and go to bed.

Schmutzie: Then I'll be in bed before -

Palinode: No, no no. No you won't.

Schmutzie: What?

Palinode: I'll race you to bed.

Schmutzie: But you just said you'd be writing for half an hour.

Palinode: Yes, and I also said I'd race you to bed. And win.

Schmutzie: You can't win if you're writing for half an hour.

Palinode: I can if I do it really quickly.

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Well, look at you. You're here. That means you've got a personal computer and an internet connection. Is it the twenty-first century already? For more information, read about me. Or try Wikipedia.

First-time visitors will have no idea what this site is about. Neither do I. When I started keeping a weblog I went out of my way to make it cryptic and inaccessible, the notion being that only the dedicated would stick it out. This notion works for high modernist literature but not for some guy with a blog. I decided to entertain and amuse instead of frustrate and discourage. I still do not know what my site is about.

If you'd like to communicate but feel uncomfortable leaving a comment - for example, you want to tell me that I write like a much less hairy person, or that you have nothing against short people, but why do they have to flaunt it? - please email me at: palinode @ gmail . com.

If you have a question that you wish to have answered on my site, you can ask me at: askpalinode @ gmail . com. I invite you to read the Frequently Asked Questions page on the subject. Nobody ever asks me any of the FAQs, but I've heard from business leaders that people like them. And I want to be a business leader. I want it so bad.