Day 320: TBA
From that topic generator:
Famous religious architecture
Using an electronic toothbrush (should that be electric?)
Knights of the Round Table
Sailing Across the Pacific
Renting vs. Owning skis/snowboards (never, never will I write on that topic)
Seeing X-rated movies
That last one is kind of weird, these days. Does the random topic generator (or whoever compiled these... or do they literally come from phrases scooped up across the internet?) mean going to a movie theater that is showing X-rated movies? Because that is pretty rare. I hear there is or was until recently, such a movie theater in San Mateo, not far from where there used to be a racetrack, for horses, Bay Meadows. But the track is gone, and I bet the porno theater is, too. On the other hand, you can watch porn 24/7 on the internets. So I hear.
The topic from this typically strange grab bag that appeals to me is "sailing across the Pacific". My uncle gave me a book (this could be the start of several stories; I am not too into this uncle now, but I have to admit that until I was in my teens, he was an excellent picker of books as gifts -- he gave me a paperback set of all the Sherlock Holmes novels; he gave me Roots just after the miniseries came out; he gave me Les Miserables in English and apparently somewhat abridged, though Christ, you wouldn't know it, it was huge anyway... and he gave me The Incredible Voyage, by Tristan Jones, which was a (mostly) non-fiction book about a sailor who sailed on the lowest body of water (the Dead Sea) and then around Africa and across the Atlantic and up the Mato Grosso and then portaged and trucked his boat to Peru, or Bolivia, I'm not sure which, and sailed on Lake Titicaca, the world's highest body of water. I was completely fascinated by this book, and by the vaunted anti-apartheid politics of the writer, who told great stories the whole way through. I love being on boats, on water, whether the boats in question are a three hour whale watching expedition from Monterey or a 24 hour car ferry from the coast of Canada to Newfoundland or Labrador, or an overnight ferry between Sweden and Gdansk, or the four hour ferry between Newhaven and Dieppe. I would like to take a boat to the Catalina Islands, too, and the San Juans, in the Pacific off of Washington State.
Famous religious architecture
Using an electronic toothbrush (should that be electric?)
Knights of the Round Table
Sailing Across the Pacific
Renting vs. Owning skis/snowboards (never, never will I write on that topic)
Seeing X-rated movies
That last one is kind of weird, these days. Does the random topic generator (or whoever compiled these... or do they literally come from phrases scooped up across the internet?) mean going to a movie theater that is showing X-rated movies? Because that is pretty rare. I hear there is or was until recently, such a movie theater in San Mateo, not far from where there used to be a racetrack, for horses, Bay Meadows. But the track is gone, and I bet the porno theater is, too. On the other hand, you can watch porn 24/7 on the internets. So I hear.
The topic from this typically strange grab bag that appeals to me is "sailing across the Pacific". My uncle gave me a book (this could be the start of several stories; I am not too into this uncle now, but I have to admit that until I was in my teens, he was an excellent picker of books as gifts -- he gave me a paperback set of all the Sherlock Holmes novels; he gave me Roots just after the miniseries came out; he gave me Les Miserables in English and apparently somewhat abridged, though Christ, you wouldn't know it, it was huge anyway... and he gave me The Incredible Voyage, by Tristan Jones, which was a (mostly) non-fiction book about a sailor who sailed on the lowest body of water (the Dead Sea) and then around Africa and across the Atlantic and up the Mato Grosso and then portaged and trucked his boat to Peru, or Bolivia, I'm not sure which, and sailed on Lake Titicaca, the world's highest body of water. I was completely fascinated by this book, and by the vaunted anti-apartheid politics of the writer, who told great stories the whole way through. I love being on boats, on water, whether the boats in question are a three hour whale watching expedition from Monterey or a 24 hour car ferry from the coast of Canada to Newfoundland or Labrador, or an overnight ferry between Sweden and Gdansk, or the four hour ferry between Newhaven and Dieppe. I would like to take a boat to the Catalina Islands, too, and the San Juans, in the Pacific off of Washington State.