The List
The Prime Minister’s secret wish-list includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- One of these popular video game consoles, where you control the bloody thing by jumping, spinning, and shaking and yanking your hands wildly all over the living room, accidently hitting your unsuspecting wife in the eye.
Why?
He would love to experience that feeling of being ten years old again, of course. And maybe, hit his wife in the eye, a few times, inadvertently, maybe.
- A dog, any dog, provided that the beast would learn fast to recognize his wife’s car sound and bark or something upon hearing it getting into the parking garage.
Why?
So that he would have the time to buckle up and clear his browser’s history before she walks into the room.
Why can’t he just get a dog?
His wife is allergic to all furred and feathered animals; a couple of years ago, she made the news as she went through a horribly loud pulmonary attack and fainted during the opening of a dog-shelter… Oh, wait a second…
- A trip to Las Vegas with his wife. This is where they had met, and it would be nice to stay a couple of nights at the same hotel where they had thoroughly spent their first night together, ah, that night!
Why?
Perhaps he would fall in love with her again. But probably because that’s the only hotel where there is a dancing pole next to the bed.
Under That Hat 
How goes your search for inspiration? Anything going on under that hat? Have you thought about writing something different from your usual genre of dark humor? (I, of course, would never deviate from writing my blah, blah recounts of this and that, but that may be all the more reason to try something new — to not be so mono-flavor like moi.)
Truth is, I don’t actively search for inspiration or themes for my blog; when I feel it’s time for a new post (once a month, according to the pitiful archives *blushes shamefully*), I just open my word processor, think up something, type it down and twist it around until I get a piece that I judge funny, witty or just plainly proper enough to be published.
For example, the above post started out with this idea: A grown man wanting a Playstation to “accidently” hit his wife in the eye.
Usually the process takes no more than a couple of hours. I have abandoned a couple of pieces halfway as I could not go anywhere with the original idea. These aborted ideas where actually planned beforehand; apparently, planning doesn’t do me good.
What would you suggest me to write about? That would be interesting, an attempt at writing “on demand”.
By the way, I have noticed that some of your latest posts (the tea party and the Drupal site, to name a couple) are purposely funny, I mean the humour, as blunt as ever, is much more integrated into the piece, as opposed to the older, more serious posts, with a few casually-included funny remarks. Is my observation correct? Are you intentionally altering your style of writing? Be it intentional or not, I enjoy these posts more than others.
Economists define demand as “willingness and ability to pay” (for a specific good or service). By those criteria, I not sure I have real demand. Nonetheless, there are lots of things that I’d love to read about, although I’m not sure if they overlap with anything you’d like to write about. Here’s one thing that I’ve been attempting to write about recently, http://blog.historians.org/news/1734/aha-statement-on-scholarly-journal-publishing. This is the American Historical Association’s statement expressing concerns about the open access movement. What do you think?