Vernal Hiatus

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Guess where I'm headed for Spring Break.

I'll give you two hints:

• (1) Conformism, paranoia, reality, delusion, reality television & corporate control of our lives, authenticity, consciousness, fate, determinism, free will, utopia/dystopia, love, friendship, loyalty. 

• (2) If you get in a fight with someone and you feel you're losing, you can just shoot them down.

If you said "Seaside, Florida, where they filmed 'The Truman Show,'" you'd be right! Florida, of course, lately notorious for its NRA/ALEC-pushed/funded 'stand your ground' laws.

The ATL is emptying out this week as all the metro area schools take their annual vernal hiatus. Seaside, Seagrove, Grayton, Destin, Miramar, Rosemary Beach, etc., the Panhandle beaches of Walton County, FL, are an exceptionally popular place to go in these parts. Though Wisdoc and I would prefer (and do) less 'destination' spots, Wesdom is a popular kid at school, and a lot of his friends are going to be in the vicinity next week. Ergo, we're taking four teenagers for a frolic on the Gulf.

As I understand it, we will have WiFi where we're staying. I may not post or Comment or re-Comment during the week, but if you have a blog and you start getting regular hits from an iPhone at a new location somewhere between Panama City Beach and Pensacola, don't get too excited; it'll probably just be yours truly.

Beach reading list: Suttree (C. McCarthy), The Stories of Breece d'J Pancake, The Sense of an Ending (F. Kermode), and, yes, The Hunger Games (vols. 1-3)(if I can pry them from the teenagers' & Wisdoc's hands).

Goals: one long, slow 16-mile run along the very flat Route 30A bike path in prep for a possible marathon someday; some short beach runs; some long twilight walks w/ Wisdoc, Jake, & Lily (Wisdaughter, who's not on break this week from Emory, will be Sasha sitting & plant watering); some good, old fashioned, long-hand fiction writing (if I can remember how to operate a pen); some grillin' and some chillin'; oh, and maybe a dip in the ocean.

Best, y'all![Sorry, gotta' run. Can't find the whole tune, but you can. It's good LOUD.]

Spring Break

There's more to come here at WoW, but it's Spring Break time here in the ATL. Once again I'll be taking a week off from blogging and probably from browsing. Don't worry; I'll check back in with y'all when I get back.

Thanks so much to all of you for taking the time to read my scribblings. I do try to make it interesting for you.

Best,
Jim H.

Spring Break

Well, it's that special week of year again: Spring Break in the ATL! UNC is playing in the Final Four! Opening Day is rolling around, and the Braves are still in the hunt! And the Masters is next weekend!

WoW will be dark for a week while I'm down on Florida's Forgotten Coast. Thanks to all for reading!

Best,
Jim H.

Some music I've loaded on my iPod for running on that beach above:

Spring Break

Thanks to all who stop in to read this little blog of mine. It's a bit of a mixed bag, but so is my mind. So there.

I'm going to be away from my desktop and my broadband next week, on an island down on the Third Coast, the Redneck Riviera, the Gulf. Not sure whether I'll be able to post. We'll see.

When I get back I will weigh in on Rooster winner The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which I've just started. I've read most of the books on the list, but haven't really reviewed them. Maybe they can be the subject of future posts. I will say this: I did feel that McCarthy's Remainder had that enduring feel to it—classic, unique, re-readable, overwhelmingly moving ending (despite its pedestrian start).

If you're relatively new to WoW, you can scroll through in my absence and maybe pick up some of the repeating themes and ideas and arguments, not to mention all the cool Monty Python scenes. Oh, and give the Glenn Gould a listen. If I do post this next week, it'll be sporadic.

Best,
Jim H.