Against brain death
The trick when doing an extremely tedious and brain-killing task, such as dropping in the content for a website—content which consists right now of long lists of names that need to be formatted just so—is to let your mind wander just enough to keep things bearable. Like a radio tuned in primarily to a business news station, but also picking up a staticky ghost transmission in the background. Maybe it is a fire and brimstone preacher. Maybe it is an old country station. The point is, something.
I bring all this up because the current list I’m copying/pasting/formatting includes the surnames “Newhall” and “Ziger.” “Newhall” I initially misread as “Narwhal.” So of course now I’m imagining a sea vs. land death match between a horned porpoise and a vicious-yet-shy tiger-zebra hybrid.
