The flight to Atlanta must have slipped through a weak part of the jet stream, because we landed about 30 minutes ahead of our scheduled arrival time. The formalities passed with no bumps, and since I have two hours until the Albuquerque flight departs, I figured I'd stop by the food court here in Concourse E and "jack in" (wirelessly, of course).
I took the opportunity of being strapped into an airplane seat to finally review my progress on my 101/1001 list. The so-so news is that I haven't really made any progress on too many of my goals; the absolutely
stunning news is that I cannot recall every actually having taken the time to do such a review so early in the year.
I will do better this month.
I also put a small dent in a book I picked up in Moscow during this trip, by one Evgeniy Grishkovets, who was an author unknown to me before I picked up his book
Год ЖЖизни. The title caught my eye as I browsed in the Moskva bookstore on Tverskaya because the letter digram "ЖЖ" is the way Russian LJers refer to "LJ" (
Живой Журнал is a literal translation of
Live Journal), so the title is not easily translated (essentially, "A Year of LJ Life," but not as elegant).
1 As you might expect, the book is an edited, condensed version of one year of the author's LJ entries. And it's something like number 4 in sales among new books, which would indicate that Grishkovets is an author that commands attention.
It occurs to me that, after 8+ years of posting, there might also be a book somewhere within my tappings (which brings to mind Michelangelo's line about "knowing what part to chip away" when considering a block of marble for a statue). Looking only at the essays I've written for LJ Idol, there are probably about 20,000 words there of better-than-average material, but of course, there remains the issue of who might be interested in reading the result or (restated) how to market such a book to make people want to read it.
Apropos of which, I am among the "Top 40" remaining in the LJ Idol competition and would like to be among the "Top 35." With that in mind, I commend to you
my latest essay (and an earnest plea to support your neighborhood LJ Idol contestant by casting a vote for me in
this week's poll).
Cheers...
P.S. Just playing around, I came up with the following "try" for rendering the title of Grishkovets' book:
A Year of Life
J
Alternatively, maybe create a letter "J" that superposes the characters "i" and "j" and distinguishes them using color, and use the result as the "i" in "Life."
Don't mind me... I'm doodling out loud.
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