22 March 2005: Mail Call

Keeping the Subject Line Meme alive, here are the ten best email titles to show up in my inbox in the past few weeks:

• Snap into position and bounce 'til you ache

• Captain Pants wants YOU!

• soft clocks

• "Erotic wishful thinking"

• who the hell am i?

• death by getting-things-done

• sowing seeds of the butlerian jihad

• Random conjecture, complete with presupposition

• When I was born, I couldn't even chew a hamburger

• I'm curious about everything, but only a little

And while we're on the subject of email, here's a response to the previous entry:

Lexicat: Ok, but... am I only belated getting to the party wherein everyone knows that Prince's "i would die 4 u" from Purple Rain was written from the Nazarene's perspective?

Me: Now I'm imagining a rock musical apocalyptic sci-fi fantasy film in which Prince plays the second comimg of Christ and Juice Newton plays the Devil.

And another one:

Old Cutter John: Ah, well... res ipsa loquitor.

From an exchange of emails with Argus, in which he was writing about the sort of mental chatter that the Buddhists call the Monkey Mind:

Argus: [...] and it's a real mindfuck to break out of that little box. Fuckin' monkey-mind. Oh, how cute. "Gorilla Boy" just came on my randomized iTunes.

Me: Randomized music players make it so easy for God to have that sort of fun that I worry they're going to spoil Her.

Argus: I'll have a talk with Her.

And from an email exchange with Yoko, here's a dire object lesson in the effects of sleep deprivation on coherence:

Yoko: I'll stop for now, and look forward to reading your thoughts tomorrow.

Me (the following night): The tomorrow of which you spoke is now today, and it's proving to be a ridiculously busy today, even by my standards. So by the time I have time to sit down and write properly, you'll probably be asleep yet again, and you'll end up reading it tomorrow, which will be today when it happens, but which, when you wrote the above sentence, was the day after tomorrow, relative to the day that was today at the time, which was yesterday.