Throw yourself at the keyword

Part 2 of the latest keyword search roundup (here’s Part 1).

Kick his ask

I love this. It reminds me of many times in a room — a meeting, a class, a reading, whatever — when someone would ask a question that made me want to… Well, you get the idea.

She threw herself at the strong-looking young woman and found herself lifted off the ground

I like to think this is someone’s memory of a book they read or a movie they saw many years ago, whose details have faded except for this central image. And now they are searching for it.

Those searches can take a long time. But sometimes the universe gives back. I had the absolute pleasure recently of finding a song from my youth, and it was such a treat after nearly 20 years of looking for it off and on to finally hear it again. It didn’t take me back; it took me deeper, which is the real power of memory.

why do people have dreams that they can’t physically punch someone?

Because your brain is suppressing motor neurons to prevent your ape-ancestor self from actually moving in response to the dream. Because then you might fall out of the tree you are sleeping in and get eaten by a dinosaur, or something. Sometimes in the dream state, the brain-body conflict plays out as “I can’t move in my dream.” I have the no-punching dreams, as well as the dreams where I simply cannot run (I end up in a weird sort of lope-crawl mishmash). I don’t think it has any Deep Inner Psychological Meaning. Just another way the brain takes care of us.

Oops, I’m not supposed to be doing your homework. Go ask Wikipedia.

why shouldn’t I be an asshole

Dude, do I really need to explain this to you? When you are an asshole, people do not like you. When people do not like you, you get less cooperation, companionship, sex, love, chocolate, wine, the list goes on. Your soul shrinks and you become a hollow shell filled with a howling wind that rages as your life becomes an eternal quest to persuade yourself and others that you really are that important, that meaningful, that worthy of respect or adulation or whatever other need has driven you to be an asshole in the first place. That’s why.

kelley eskridge dislikes

Huh. Well, either you don’t want to piss me off (which I appreciate), or you really do and are simply looking for the most effective way (in which case, well, I can’t stop you, but is this really the best use of your life?).

But in the spirit of sharing information, I dislike: meanness. Thoughtlessness. Not giving other people conversational space. Rudeness. Power plays. Pomposity. Bitterness. Talking during the movie. Elevating opinion to the status of fact. Needing to always win.

How about you, what do you dislike?

can you see space from here

Anytime you look at the sky, anytime you look into yourself. I used to think “the universe is within us” was hyperbole, but now I think it’s just the truth. Whatever’s out there is in us too, the vast and the strange and the brutal and the frighteningly beautiful.

may you be

Whatever you wish.

And this month’s personal favorite: i cuffy i am. I have no idea what it means, but I like the definite-ness of it. You go, Cuffy.

4 thoughts on “Throw yourself at the keyword”

  1. Throw yourself at the key word II is a great birthday present. Lol! Especially “kick his ask” and “why can’t I be an asshole”. There are no dumb questions, but there are definitely some that will get your ask kicked. I’ve had mine kicked a few times. Thanks for the laughter.

  2. These search things are fun.

    I’ve been thinking about what you said about that song you found, “It didn’t take me back; it took me deeper, which is the real power of memory.” Well said.

    Something about that Werewolf song was familiar to me, but I couldn’t really place it. Then just now I realized that it was the group name – Five Man Electrical Band – that I remembered so I looked them up. I think I must’ve had their greatest hits album which had that werewolf song on there. But this is the song I remember well. “Signs.” Loved that song.

  3. Jennifer, I just had a serious flashback when I clicked on your link. I owned that 45, I wish I still had it!

    Kelley,

    I cuffy I am, it sounds so inspirational. I often wonder what the alcohol consumption is behind some of these requests, it would be interesting to know.

  4. Hah, googling while drunk. The internet has given us so many more ways to make stupid choices under the influence, hasn’t it? Just wait until we all have video phones… so many special moments just waiting to happen… (grin).

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