During the month of November anybody participating in NaNo gets weekly pep talks from Chris Baty the creator and head cheerleader of NaNowrimo. Chris opened the pep talk that he sent out to hundreds of thousands of people today with the words "Holy cow."
Which made me laugh.
I use that expression all the time. I always have. But it also made me wonder if any devout Hindu's on the NaNo mailing list would be offended.
Why would I wonder that? Because it reminded me of something that happened to me last summer.
I was going out to my dumpster with my trash and as I walked up to it I couldn't believe how full it was.
I exclaimed "Holy cow!"
Then rounded the corner and came face to face with an Indian family that I know who live in the next building.
Well I must have blushed because the grandfather in the group said "Do not worry Karen, what you have said we have heard many times before. And therefore we are not offended."
And then his son Ron [yes Ron, don't ask me why] said "Jesus Christ that dumpster is full!"
[here comes the segue]
So speaking of hoping that people are not surprised or offended….laughing….tomorrow I'm going to post a piece of flash fiction that I'll tell you right now is a bit of a departure for the blog. I'm going to rate it R right in the title…..but I just wanted to let you guys know ahead of time that it contains a bit of strong language and some erotic imagery.
It's not really graphic [well not excessively so] but I still think that some of you will be surprised that it came from my head. I get people all the time who come up to me and say things about the blog like you know I really love your funny stuff, and the gruesome stories were a surprise, but what I really want to talk to you about are the sensual sentences…..
So just remember that like Shrek or an onion, I have many layers and tomorrow I'll be exposing a layer that some of you may not have seen before. Well those of you who haven't read An Organized Life.
And no Rachel, the piece tomorrow is not nearly as graphic as the pages that I stapled together in An Organized Life and told you that you could read them when A)you were 35 or B)I was dead, so I think you'll be fine…… oh man….laughing…wonder which way this will sway the crowd?
13 comments:
Good thing you weren't snarfing down a hamburger when you met them... ;-)
Looking forward to you peeling off more layers tomorrow.
Oh good. One vote for peeling the layers...
I just wrote a sex scene on a spaceship this morning Aston, so all sorts of new things going on for me in the month of November....laughing...
NaNo is good for stretching the creative wings.
[now if I can only figure out a way to make the ship's gravity system malfunction long enough so I can have a period of WEIGHTLESSNESS, I'll really be cooking...]
see you tomorrow.
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Holy cow, how do you find the time to do nano AND post a blog? I can't even find the time to read them!
I didn't shower yet.
[and that's probably not true]
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We've been warned! I LOVE the story of your garbage can. Ron's response is priceless. I say "holy cow" all the time (as you've no doubt noticed), and I never even thought about that I could be offending someone. Way to make me paranoid, Missy.
After Ron's comment there was a beat while we processed what he'd said then we all started laughing.
It was pretty funny.
sorry to make you paranoid ms. j.... :0)
Oh boy....I didn't read those pages though... so I have nothing to compare to!
My poor blood vessels. I don't think they can take it any more!
Oh no, and then I read the comments for this. A spaceship? Really? (hides)
Yeah, don't think you'll be reading my scifi book Rachel lol.....
Maybe you and your blood vessels should just skip tomorrow then. Or you could just read it through your fingers like some people watch scary movies.
[I hate it when I make your ears bleed]
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What a coincidence! Like Shrek or an onion I am green.
Bring on the erotic!
Green with envy? Green with Swine flu? Either way it's not easy being green.
But that's three onblog votes for peeling the layers....and lots of email....so it looks like you guys will be ok.
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Oh my gosh, I love that story! I could imagine you all when you saw them and then Ron's response :)) sooo funny!
And at least for me his response was totally unexpected.
Comic timing is important, but surprise has its place as well.
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