i’ll title this later

something scary got in the way of a title

so i did an end-around and jumped right into the body. which works fine for me. my old lit-in-translation professor, dr. maurice labelle, who probably did more to stoke the fires of cynical humor in me than a thousand politicians ever could, used to say 

get the body on the slab and start cutting.

and sometimes that’s just what you’ve got to do. of course when you make a stew of procrastination and laziness then you just get the body and the slab and press publish. and then look around for other things to avoid before making a smoothie or a pot of tea which was what you wanted to do the whole time anyway. cos there’s a part of you that just needs to get off the verdammt hamster wheel; in lotus with your hand on your heart chanting om, or bathing in a glass of wine listening to brian eno’s thursday afternoon, or whatever the hell it is you do to chill the **** out!

then there is the genius of nick lowe, the basher, who got those great performances that made elvis costello famous utilizing the immortal ethic:

bash it out now, tart it up later.

which all leads up to what?

why this post, of course, the actual making of it, which depends on the creation and upkeep of this site, which owes its current less than crappy existence to a simple one hour phone call i made to havi brooks on september 4 of this very year, which if you look over at the calendar to your right was two posts into this project.

and if it wasn’t for this project how the heck would you have any idea who i am or what i do and how important that information is for potentially helping you to get your fires burning and your engines running and all that great creative sh*t that you do out of your head and out of your heart and out of your hands and onto/into whatever you want to get it on/in…and then into the hands hearts and minds of other people who will help you quit that crappy job you hate, or keep you from having to get one or whatever it is that scares you and twists you up around creativity and health and happiness!

and so it goes.

so back to havi. this is an endorsement. i was lost in the wilderness of how to get what i do so well out of…you know what i mean…read that last paragraph! and then, after months of lurking and post reading and free teleclasses and so forth i got the procrastination package, and i made the phone call, and bam!

those scaaarrrryyy monsters didn’t look so scary anymore, and it turns out they just wanted me to take them on a bike ride and deposit them out in the park where they could scare birders and dog walkers while i relaxed in the sun and the fresh air and then came home refreshed and ready to get some things done.

and some of them turned out to be things i not only didn’t want to do, they turned out to be things that if i did them it would be just a huge gigantic waste of my time. and, well heck, what else have i got?

so there we go. havi rocks. and even though she lives in portland west she’s not going to tell you to “just do it”, fight your demons, or any of that other cr*p. nuff said. ciao.