A Staggering Rat of Heartbreaking Genius

"I musta made a wrong toin at Al-buh-KOY-kee"



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A Staggering Rat of Heartbreaking Genius's Life List

  1. 1. write a poem a day during May 2009
    8 team members . 27 entries . 11 cheers
    2 people
  2. 2. be a tragic Romantic heroine (on weekends, from Thursday night to the first sweep of sad civil twilight on Sunday )
    19 cheers
    1 person
  3. 3. be a (less derivative) painter
    17 entries . 75 cheers
    1 person
  4. 4. post 43 portraits drawn on 43 serviettes at cafes 'round the city
    31 entries . 31 cheers
    1 person
  5. 5. make a Bacon Explosion, document it with pictures and explosive commentary, then further the expansion of the bacon universe
    14 entries . 19 cheers
    1 person
  6. 6. see Paris again
    16 entries . 139 cheers
    7 people
  7. 7. get Uncle Enore to send his favourite magnificent pizza from California to me in Toronto
    3 entries . 16 cheers
    1 person
  8. 8. rat + pet writeology
    2 team members . 13 entries . 9 cheers
    2 people
  9. 9. embrace my inner Canadian
    18 entries . 41 cheers
    1 person
  10. 10. do something neat with synesthesia: give me another 43 words and I will tell you what they taste like
    4 entries . 27 cheers
    1 person
  11. 11. create another 10 episodes of my not-for-money, just-for-fun comic strip "Loser Girl"
    11 entries . 48 cheers
    1 person
  12. 12. nudge Rat's Emotopoloooza
    10 entries . 39 cheers
    1 person
  13. 13. visit Claude Monet's house at Giverny
    2 entries . 80 cheers
    14 people
  14. 14. read Proust
    12 entries . 60 cheers
    75 people
  15. 15. learn to sew and hand-embroider
    4 entries . 74 cheers
    1 person
  16. 16. learn classical guitar
    12 entries . 64 cheers
    30 people
  17. 17. learn more about wine
    17 entries . 45 cheers
    310 people
  18. 18. have a beautiful garden
    14 entries . 98 cheers
    159 people
  19. 19. build a walk-in cocoon
    3 entries . 40 cheers
    2 people
  20. 20. publish cartoons in the New Yorker
    2 entries . 51 cheers
    2 people
  21. 21. go on ad finitum about feminist issues
    4 entries . 42 cheers
    1 person
  22. 22. feng shui my house and garden
    2 entries . 41 cheers
    1 person
  23. 23. become computer savvy
    5 entries . 25 cheers
    6 people
  24. 24. make a mojito
    5 entries . 65 cheers
    2 people
  25. 25. embrace shibumi and wabi-sabi in my surroundings and life
    5 entries . 20 cheers
    1 person
  26. 26. Grow a Secret Garden
    6 entries . 83 cheers
    6 people
  27. 27. Make steamed puddings
    6 entries . 19 cheers
    2 people
  28. 28. read finnegan's wake
    3 entries . 20 cheers
    74 people
  29. 29. learn secret spy skills
    9 entries . 45 cheers
    249 people
  30. 30. fully restore my century house
    4 entries . 30 cheers
    1 person
  31. 31. give free hugs
    2 entries . 63 cheers
    27 people
  32. 32. learn the "Thriller dance"
    1 entry . 42 cheers
    2,640 people
  33. 33. arrange an evening of chocolate tasting
    2 entries . 50 cheers
    1 person
  34. 34. learn to play chess well
    2 entries . 32 cheers
    72 people
  35. 35. taste every flavour of KitKat from around the world
    31 entries . 32 cheers
    1 person
  36. 36. embrace Nadsat in common vernacular
    7 entries . 13 cheers
    1 person
  37. 37. keep a food gournal
    8 team members . 337 entries . 9 cheers
    8 people
  38. 38. identify and list 43 things and activities Virgo
    22 entries . 12 cheers
    1 person
  39. 39. knit a wool and mohair sweater with skulls-and-crossbones on the arms
    9 entries . 25 cheers
    1 person
  40. 40. make up another cool typeface, with serifs
    12 cheers
    1 person
  41. 41. Be a gourmet cook by making home-made sauces like our Dear Rat (in fact, recipes provided by RatUnderPaper). Thank you Rat!!
    2 team members . 3 entries . 6 cheers
    2 people
  42. 42. Envision the life that I want
    2 entries . 20 cheers
    7 people

How I did it
How to celebrate a crazy cuckoo nutty Weekend of Gershwin from May 29 - June 1
It took me
4 days
It made me
rhapsodic


How to wish the lovely landscaping bluepark a cheerful and cheery birthday weekend on May 24
It took me
5 days
It made me
Bluep-arffic!


How to support Uncle at this terrible time, and tell him how much we'll miss him:(
It took me
1 day
It made me
a basket case.


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Recent entries
keep a food gournal (read all 337 entries…)
Independence Day Sat. July 4/09 11 hours ago

morn:
breakfast karaoke: Ben (makes me kind of feel like the guy in that Simpsons episode – the one Homer meets in prison who thinks he’s Michael Jackson… but hey! I just thought of it! Ben! You know!) (“Ben… the two of us need look no more/We…both found what we were looking for”)
two mocha smoothies
a smorgasbord of gummi sweets
one lemonade hard candy

afternoon:
hot chocolate with spoons of coffee in it

evening:
one half good belly probiotic mango drink
a cup of cherry-flavoured yogourt

one small glass Reynac with two maraschino cherries
ho-made guacamole with spelt crackers

small piece grilled Kobe steak (buttery. subtle.)
one grilled organic chicken skewer
spud with Maldon salt
sweetlet peas
petite salad – half raspberry, half miso
half cranberry half raspberry juice
bowl bigger than my head of sweet dark cherries



keep a food gournal (read all 337 entries…)
home on the range Fri.July 3/09 1 day ago

morn:
breakfast karaoke: To Me You Are A Work of Art (“To me you are/A work of art/And I would give you my heart/That’s if I had one”)
two mocha smoothies
a brotherhood of gummi sweets
one pink lemonade hard candy

afternoon:
hot chocolate with a couple of spoons of coffee

evening:
one glass chardonnay
two pieces teriyaki sauced tofu
one cup fieldberry yogourt
half a good belly probiotic drink
Louisiana sauced organic chicken
risotto with leek, carrot, parsnip, spinach and cheddar
large petite raspberry salad
cranberry raspberry juice
sweetlet peas



write a poem a day during May 2009 (read all 27 entries…)
May 27, 2009 How to Disappear in Broad Daylight If the Sun Shines Upon Keen Minds in A Field Behind a Collegiate 1 day ago

Your absence seems finite as though
You must turn up somewhere sooner
Or later, like a missing glove
Or a parachute blown awry.
In this absence I see fragments
Of you, motes and filaments, in
Places I look. It’s always you
Or your absence I see, colour
Or colourlessness, everything
Or nothing. Last weekend I watched
Boys launch model rockets in a
Field, saw a metaphor in the
Thin arc of the little paper
Cone that seemed to fizz its way to
The heavens in a split second.
I turned to you as though you were
Present: We could do that. You were
Not there so I could not tell you
More: This was my school. Here is the
Spot where I stretched out in June sun
Before class, a hat over my
Face. Here is the track. I was a
Sprinter. Here is faint graffiti,
There my initials, traceable.
Here are absences to match yours.
When the boys go I may find you.



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