I did a quick check. There are not a lot of Muses. There are nine of them. Most of them cover theater and poetry. I kind of lean more toward narrative and essay. I think I also lean toward comedy and history (my own); so, there's Thalia and Clio. Since Clio has been coopted by Madison Avenue, I feel I should go with Thalia, primarily. However, I have always been fascinated by advertising in all its forms; so Clio is in. Would I be tempting fate to make up my own muse? The gods and other folks in and around Mt. Olympus tend to frown on presumption. Hubris, if you will. So, we won't. My muse(s) however, keep leading me to one Msr. Jean Genet (seen above). What to make of this?
I was going to write about Jean Genet; and I still plan to, just later. Right now I wanted to do some side-work, some tidying up, some checklisting. Some accounting...
So, where are we, here in the world of christopherfreidy.com (backslash) blogging? Well, actually, I'm pretty up to date. I have a habit. Some might call it a bad habit, although it's not neccessarily "bad"; it's just how I work. Or, I'm finding out, it's how I work, since this is the first time in my life I've blogged. I guess I got into it in earnest about two years ago. The blogging, that is. I will often start something and reach a point where I have another idea. I will stop and work on that idea; so, for a while there, I was ending up with a lot of unfinished blogs (unfinished business) that usually ended with the inconclusive coda: ...to be continued. And I'm happy to report that so far, EVERYTHING has been "continued" to completion! Except the Hallmark Christmas TV movie I'm working on. That was not supposed to be anything more than a one joke scene. But now, it's becoming a full-length script because the Muses are compelling me. The characters are demanding it. That happens sometimes. The characters you create will INSIST that you finish telling their stories; and if you don't, you end up with a nagging feeling. A guilty feeling. I'm all about telling GUILT to get lost nowadays. And nowanights!
That being said. There is one thing from an old blog that is not finished. And I promised I would finish it. And it is, 98% finished. I just need to kick myself in the butt to finish it...and I think a certain muse has already shown me the way. In my blog titled: Art Therapy from July of 2022, I wrote about transforming a piece of mass produced art into a new work by adding hip, ironical visual layering. It's a thing. Just look up "transforming thrift store art" or whatever. So, I ran out to Goodwill and this is what I found:
Drum roll please...!
When?
Quoi?
Quelle absurd!
CFR 3/29/24