{"id":21,"date":"2004-06-01T01:49:15","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T07:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/wordpress\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-08-23T22:44:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T04:44:13","slug":"flight-of-the-haiku-igator-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2004\/06\/01\/flight-of-the-haiku-igator-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"flight of the haiku-igator…. thing."},"content":{"rendered":"

I must say again, that I hate Internet Explorer. But more to the point, a finally figured out a good–well, better–look for the haiku hut<\/a>, and there’s even a new haiku to celebrate, called rhetorical.<\/p>\n

You know, I read Paul Simon’s lyrics and I get shivers down my spine. I get goosebumps. Goosebumps, I say! I also get insanely jealous, because he can write amazingly good poetry, and I crank out stuff like, well, the stuff I crank out (or haven’t for the last two years… whatever). I really want to write some new stuff, and I just can’t find anything. It bites, but at least I get to call AT&T again today… that’ll provide some good comedic fodder, I’m certain.<\/p>\n

I know, I could write a haiku about not being able to write anything for the poetism plaza:<\/p>\n

simon is so good
\ngrassmonk has severe blockage
\nwhatever to do?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(For you out there who thought I could write no bad haiku, I think I just proved you wrong. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen. Sigh…)<\/p>\n

Also of note is that today realizes the long-anticipated release of a classic movie from my childhood: Flight of the Navigator<\/em>. By the time I read this again I’ll probably have it in hand, wondering if it’s going to live up to my memories of it.<\/p>\n

My parents taped the move off the Disney channel what seems eons ago, and I remember watching it over and over and over again, but somehow I remember little about the actual plot. Oh, I know the vague outline: kid goes for a walk in the woods, falls into the Cracks of Doom, and wakes up eight years later. His family’s older–his little brother is now his older brother, and Pee-Wee Herman is trapped inside a flying saucer, presumably hiding out while trying to contact his lawyer. But I can’t even remember if the kid actually gets to go back in time and reunite with his family. For a movie I probably wore out on an old VHS tape, I find that a little disturbing.<\/p>\n

Then again, since I remember so little, it’ll be hard not to live up to my memories. Expectations, though–that’s another matter altogether. I hope those aren’t dashed against the rocks of, um, sharp shredding-ness. Or, more poetically:<\/p>\n

expectations killed
\ndashed against sharp shredding rocks
\nbye bye my high hopes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I kill me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must say again, that I hate Internet Explorer. But more to the point, a finally figured out a good–well, better–look for the haiku hut, and there’s even a new haiku to celebrate, called rhetorical. You know, I read Paul Simon’s lyrics and I get shivers down my spine. I get goosebumps. Goosebumps, I say! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}