Last night I thought of a nonsense phrase that kind of sounded neat in my head. Sort of like a tongue-twister, but not made up for that purpose. It just felt satisfying to imagine saying it. Anyway, I started writing it down, then trying variations, playing with alliteration, different patterns, and so on. Most of it was junk, but I liked a few parts. Here’re some of those bits:

Lacy bases can’t switch niches for affected wishes.
Sweetly sung forsooth to try to sing sanguine.
Saunter and canter in winter with lanterns,
Toes that twitch in glitchy, richly pitched kinetics.

Towards the end, part of it told something like a story, but it didn’t have a point — it just described a couple guys running through a swamp at night. But there were three lines from that section that I thought were nice:

Torvald stumbles numbly, too humble, too rumbly, he mumbles:
“Waxing wounds paint perfect pictures of petty nurses,
hearken you to fettered hearses!”

I wouldn’t call this stuff poetry, but I like the forms I imagine my mouth making when I read them.

I started making notes on a couple new Magic decks. One’s a red/white that revolves around Barren Glory. The other’s a blue/red that milks the “strobe” sorceries for all they’re worth.

Today’s TotD isn’t one that I’m eager to address. “What are your best qualities?” It’s hard to answer that question without coming off egocentric. Plus it’s the kind of thing you get asked in a job interview or in a small class with one of those kinds of teachers. I.e., the person asking thinks they’re doing something productive, but it really only generates discomfort. As if the responses are typically accurate anyhow.

We’re having a big thunderstorm right now. Brett and I were driving back from Moscow and the cloud-to-cloud bolts were amazing. Really weird part is that it hasn’t rained.

I award this fake O’Reilly cover the title of Funniest Thing Hank Saw on 4chan Today.

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