I am bilingual. You know, I speak two languages.
My languages are “sailor” and “professor.” I can speak eloquently and professionally, diplomatically even. I can tell you to fuck off without telling you to fuck off, but I can also just tell you to fuck off.
Seriously, when I don’t think about it, I drop at least forty eight eff bombs per day. But I also use words like “per” and “quite” quite a few times per day.
Really though, I’m not sure this is a good thing. Donald Trump does it better, honestly, at least if you compare his 2011-2022 style of speech to his more formal presentations of the 1980s. He doesn’t use swear words particularly frequently, so he doesn’t offend anyone who cares about just that sort of thing, but he doesn’t use words like quite and per all that often, and quite a few people eat it up.
I am no Jason Mraz. I do not have wordplay to sing about and if I did I certainly couldn’t brag about. No, I’m really more like a low grade New Yorker columnist who just never had the courage to mail a piece in to a magazine like that, and in the age of internet I don’t even know how one would do that. Blog I guess. The thing is, I do genuinely have access to the best words, and now look, thanks to AI, my competition for that particular job is any idiot with a one dollar app on a smartphone.
I have started writing more again, though. Well, let’s clarify that; not more, just different context. I’m about three posts into resuming the blog I used to try to maintain at whitewaterlawyer.com. I’ve got it linked up with an app to make it easy and everything. And yeah sometimes that’s just gonna be moving content from here to there, or reposting my old stuff from Reddit. But, take a look, let me know. I wrote there slightly less casually than here, and I’d appreciate your input about what you think I should add there.
The books I’m piecing together – right now it’s a general memoire and the one of stories that I’ve mentioned to most of you – should I put them up on the blog in categories, or their own sections? Should I be raw there, and hope for feedback, or publish nothing that isn’t edited and polished? I need feedback on this please. I think I disabled comments on WordPress because of spam. Do you agree?
Anyway, I would appreciate your thoughts on this.