dream_dialogue e_o_i "I guess you can't raise your hands, can you." Me, to some students of mine. I'd asked them to raise their hands if they were paying attention, not realizing that they'd turned into a bag of plastic beads that looked like Risk pieces. The bag was propped against a tree. It was embarrassing because the students were perfectly conscious and alive - this was just a temporary transformation - and I could imagine them thinking, "Really, teacher? WE DO NOT HAVE HANDS AT THE MOMENT!" 231214 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Pah, I could have sworn this was dream_conversations. So much for me guessing. 231214 ... raze (i don't think there can ever be too many dream-related diversions, though. and this one could be useful for those moments when, as with your vignette above, something memorable is said that isn't technically part of a give_and_take conversation.) 231215 ... raze "tonight's most precious moment lies in art girl number three's hilarious outburst," an unseen narrator said. but there was no outburst of any kind. the character in question said nothing. she just looked confused, as if the script that brought her to life had been rewritten without her knowledge. 231230 ... e_o_i A bit in my latest blatherskite_dreams, with a morphing name and a silly pun like a tamer Finnegans Wake. (Finnegan isn't dead, he's just sleeping: ready to wake on Pi Day or was it St. Patrick's?) 240313 ... raze "you'll end up paying, which means *i'll* be the one who pays. and i ain't paying." 240314 ... e_o_i I find B. and N. in the old office, so I take the chance to ask if they're finally going to pay me. (In real life B. does owe me money, but not as much as before. It's a long story.) B. says, well, this isn't a good time. See, he's just about to say a final goodbye to his father's body. Sad face - sincere in part, but also trying to heap guilt on me. (In real life, B.'s father died in December or January. But the dream transferred this event to last week.) "If you're religious, you'll have to go there to say a prayer," he says, pacing. "If you're not, you won't. So, are you religious?" Frustrated, I raise my arms in a large shrug. I say something like, "How do you expect me to know that about myself?" 240509 ... raze "she's wise. she's mean. she's trippy in a surreal way." 240718 ... raze my dad said, "it's the lake right under, 'cross from the bridge. lake huron. i saw it sob right now." i_woke_up before i could ask him what it was like to see a lake cry. 240720 ... raze "in the wrong context, the king of pop is dr. pepper," said a man who didn't appreciate being told i was filming a documentary about a troubled musician who was killed under mysterious circumstances (mostly because he committed the crime himself and arranged for a squirrel to take the fall). 240729 ... raze every once in a while there's a narrator's voice that seems to be steeped in music journalism. its latest comment was about the pixies: "'come on pilgrim' is perfect as a first ride, but then comes the surprise of 'surfer rosa'." 240814 ... raze "i bought a lebron james peanut butter maker," a woman said. "when it's good, i think, 'this is incredible.' and when it's not, i think, 'ewwww. why am i eating ears?'" 240921 ... raze "i've said it a million times. people. it's the people that get to me in a movie. give me characters i can care about and a good story, and i'll get sucked right in. give me a movie that's in love with how it looks or how clever it thinks it is, and i'm gonna have a hard time." 241012 ... raze this was how a woman introduced me to her friend: "that's adam. i only use seven words to describe him. five are variations on adorable." 241111 ... raze "i was pretty sure i was never gonna be a famous actor anyway," i said in voiceover after discovering my role in an independent film had been edited down to a glorified walk-on. "i didn't look enough like tom_cruise or channing tatum's scrotum. and i'd rather look like a person than a ball sack any day." 241121 ... e_o_i I'm trying to explain to my father that a spade is straighter whereas a shovel has more of a scoop. This is at least a little true in real life, but a little less clear is my description of a shovel: "The radius is pulsed up, with its head around its leg." 241123 ... raze one band member to another: "obviously, stick around for a meal. i'll always be your friend. but you're no longer living in my house." 241210 ... raze a stranger's assessment of my carriage: "unwashed hands. flea-ridden pants. general shabby appearance." i_mean ... there was some dirt under my fingernails. but i was wearing a nice pair of jeans, and i thought i looked just fine. i guess you can't please everyone. 241211 ... raze "i see the room," said a man who was losing his memory. "this smells you." 241214 what's it to you? who go blather from