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November 13, 2002:

THE VIEW ASKEW

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Well, dear readers, I am so tired I can’t even see straight. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, I am so tired I can’t even see straight. I can only see askew. And so, today I will view everything askew rather than straight. This will be an askew day. Actually, it’s Ask BK Day as well. So, we will have an askew Ask BK Day. I have no clue as to what the hell I’m talking about, but when one is askew one has no clew. Here I sit, askew with no clew.

I got home from work last night and I couldn’t do anything. I just sat like so much fish, a zombie in my very own home. Oh, I ate some cucumber slices (this is what I’m reduced to), I watched some more Star Wars: Attack of the Clones special features, I nosed around the Internet, but basically I could not focus on anything. I cannot wait until Thanksgiving, it can not come soon enough. Of course, a few weeks after that this job will be through and I will no longer be askew. And then, we start preproduction on the film. I am tremendously bored with the Eileen and Chet Atkins diet, but I have not strayed yet, although I feel I eat too much food, even though it’s all allowed. Today, for example, for lunch I had a salad with Italian dressing and skirt steak. I wanted pants steak but they were out of it. I had some tomatoes with the steak. I also had some peanuts, about 12 grams of carbs worth. For dinner, I had eggs with Canadian bacon, and some cheese slices (Colby cheese, to be exact). And some cucumber slices which I dipped in ranch dressing. I want to vomit just thinking about it. But, I’m allowed, right? It’s all Atkins approved, right?

Oh, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below and end the askewness of this section.

Has anyone noticed that I am so tired that I can’t see straight? Yes, Virginia, the view is askew from where I sit. I keep waiting for an idea, for something interesting to pour out of me like flour from a sack and yet nothing comes nothing pours, I just keep writing words, words, and more words, and I don’t want to point this out but hasn’t this turned into one of those fershluganah run-on sentences that were so popular back in the days of Moses before they knew what a proper sentence was yes it is definitely running on and I cannot stop it because I cannot see straight and those who see askew cannot find punctuation which is of course the only way to stop a run-on sentence and; whew, someone tossed me a semi-colon just in the nick or tom of time.

Perhaps tomorrow I will see straight and be less askew and have some pithy and pertinent things to say. For tomorrow is another day and I’ll never go hungry again and as God is my witness I will not be askew two days in a row.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must travel the highways and the byways whilst sitting in my automobile, I must work all the live-long day whilst trying to keep my sanity amidst the insanity of an askew world and my very own askew self. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, so ask all of the excellent questions you’ve come up with – let them even be askew if you so choose. Ask away, my pretties, and talk about other things, too, so that when I check in I shall have reading matter. Reading matter is very important, so post away and post often.

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