Now I’m committed to two different newsletters and trwo different blogs – Start with www.michaellipp.com and explore. So I’m testing my ability to stay productive and engaging.
I found out some years ago that the best thing I can do is disconnect my accepted thinking processes and let my fingers talk. This got tricky when I switched from pen and paper to typewriter (you remember those) and now keyboard. I’m sure I’ll have to do it again. Recently Ive noticed that my right hand touch types and I mostly use 1 or 2 fingers on my left hand. Well, I’ve always been peculiarly ambidextous. I write righty, but I pitch and throw lefty (excpt tennis, pool and ping pong, where I hold the weapns in my right hand.)
Then I reconnect my traditional brain when I edit.
I’m exploring how we create – or think we create — Einstein said something like, “Creation is hiding your sources.” I have a sense that that’s so – I relate creation to punning – Puns use words or word fragments in different contexts. Collages are puns. For me, drawing is punning – I suspect invention is as well.
Van Jones said that what the world needs is Velcro – Leggos. I say we need Puns.
Now, I often include poems with these things. sort of written on the fly – which is easier because I rarely rhyme –
Letting You No
See – there it is – You don’t have to know when you no
not even what you no only that you no
Directions are coloring inside the lines; puns aint
There’s nothing left since you left
So you needn’t be right when you write
Color when you want
And where you want and wear what you want
Creation is pretense
and keeps you calm – it’s pre-tense
This is pure gibberish -
I’ll win one for the gibber
“It was so quiet you could hear a pun drop” Bugs Baer
“It requires genius to make a good pun.
Some men of bright parts can’t reach it.” Hannah Crowley
“A pun is the lowest form of humor,
unless you thought of it yourself” Doug Larson
