Finally, after much jibber-jabber about it, finally rode MARTA into work today. I have a good reason now: I'm on the hook for an adaptation of Poe stories for my favorite community theatre (see the 2004-2005 season announcement) and after months of thinking I'd get it done at home, I got realistic. I have experience writing on the train (I wrote my adaptation of Tom Sawyer that way), and it really is an ideal way for me, at least, to write: in short undemanding bursts. I'm just not made for long concerted efforts.
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Quoth the Raven: "Next station Inman Park. Inman Park."
Posted by: Chris Jones | January 12, 2004 02:19 PM
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Oh, lordy. I should add, it's a great way for me to write, as long as I don't have one of the colorful and conscientous train operators who describe every bus line, attraction, and slum at each upcoming station, and wish us all a blessed day/evening.
Posted by: Brian Jones | January 12, 2004 02:23 PM
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Mrs. Smilee loves to tell the story of the "Love Bus". When she was doing her undergrad at U. of Chicago, there was evidently a bus driver who dubbed his route the "Love Bus" and would go on and on in the vein of "Welcome to the Luuuuuuuuuuve Bus!" Very Barry White, one would imagine.
Posted by: Guy Smilee | January 12, 2004 02:36 PM
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Correction:
"Next Stop: Inman Park-REYNOLDSTOWN"
I use that MARTA for airport action, fer sure.
I have fond memories as well of riding from Inman Park to GSU back in the day.
Posted by: FF | January 13, 2004 08:17 AM
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Correction noted. I was adapting for literary purposes. What the raven originally quoth was "Nevermore, uh-uh, ain't gonna happen again." Poe and I both prefer to shorten things for dramatic impact.
Posted by: Chris Jones | January 13, 2004 11:15 AM
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Back in the 80's I worked with a (white) guy with the first name King. Another fellow liked to get his goat by saying (in a train announcer-type voice) "King Memorial, King Memorial".
My memories of the GSU commute are less fond, due to the ever-present human waste in the elevators I had to use.
Posted by: Joe Martin | January 15, 2004 08:43 AM
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Damn Joe, MARTA must really suck even harder than usual in that regard.
I'm resisting the temptation to MARTA-blog, so I'll just report that I got stuck on the overpass at Eastlake yesterday morning for 15 minutes waiting for a train in front of us to clear the tracks.
Wouldn't have been quite so bad except that overpass is on a curve and banks a few degrees. My left butt cheek got itself a workout, trying to grip the slippery seat. Got a lot of writing done, though.
Posted by: Brian Jones | January 15, 2004 09:25 AM
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Daniel Day-Lewis was great in that one.
Posted by: Chris Jones | January 16, 2004 12:07 AM