the flotsam of my life

By Todd Stadler · Thursday, April 24, 2003 1:15am

While digging through the piles of paper that have come to define my living quarters, I found one piece of paper that has caused me concern.

Sure, most of the paper is taken up with what appears to be mathematical calculations related to a Web page design.

But in the upper-left corner is the following list:

• Kitties flash song
• walker marathon (2)
• sprint to train
• wedgie fix
• everybody dance now
• "did that hurt" hat pierce

It appears to be a list of things I intended to write about on Cock-a-hoop at some point.

I remember some of the items in the list. The "Kitties flash" bit refers to the strangely compelling Flash videos of cats lip-syncing to White Stripes songs and fake British pub band covers of Destiny's Child tunes.

I have no idea what "wedgie fix" or "hat pierce" might refer to, although they sound more like scribblings from a dream than the apparently coherent thoughts of a man in search of scratch paper to jot ideas onto.

And while I've had to sprint to catch the train on several mornings, I can't imagine that I'd actually bother to write an entire article on it.

Oh, who am I kidding? In this topsy-turvy world that blogs have created, I might even venture to write an entire article about a piece of paper I found on my dresser.