writing exercise

Perhaps not a true writing exercise because, for the life of me, I can't think of what this is teaching me other than getting me to appreciate metaphor a little more.

The first sentence is the original and I merely replaced all the "in's" with "is's." What fun!

1.
the fruit picker who lived all those years in a motel (incomplete sentence and only moderately interesting)
The fruit picker who lived all those years is a motel. (Ahhh, now there is something to ponder and within the trappings of a proper sentence to boot)

2.
The carrot shaving in my salad looks suspicious. (Hmm, I think I am already losing steam)
The carrot shaving is my salad (and) looks suspicious. (Yeah, this is already becoming redundant. Perhaps I should quit while I still care.)


Point is, I recently acquired a second means of some income. I am writing copy for Hayneedle.com. Product descriptions and so on. It is extremely gratifying and taxing because I get to come up with charming and witty paragraphs about things I rarely ever think about let alone write about and I am also responsible for coding a great deal of what I write. HTML. Good grief.

Anyway, so I tried to come up with a writing exercise before I dig into another task. This was the best I could come up with without consulting other people. Sort of failed but the carrot thing was kind of silly so maybe not an entire loss.

brandonpiercegeary

'Harvard Musical Anthropology Survey'

Okay, so I tried to upload one of Harvey Pekar's last stories but something was going terribly wrong and the image was only 80% visible in this little dialog box I am typing in. So here is the link instead. This is not necessarily indicative of his usual fare but it will at least give you an idea of his sense of humor. Most of his comics are funny in the same way Peanuts was funny. The characters are miserable, lonely, rejected, frustrated, unbecoming, but they have their immutable intelligence and solidarity with others who are poor in spirit.

In the passage of the Bible where Jesus is remarking about these sorts he says they will inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. When I was trying to remember what he said they would inherit I thought it was "the Earth." But that is what the meek get. I really thought it was the complete opposite. In the Christian faith I supposed it was the truly humble and contrite who gain access to God. But it seems it is merely the tread-upon. Actually this is making an immense amount of sense because why would those who lived desperate lives on Earth want to inherit it?