Article Contributed on: 7/19/2006 2:46:22 PM
In the spirit of
Tabitha Dial's Goofy Fridge-Mania and
Joe McDaniel's Sudoku Armageddon, here, within this blog, is a little hybrid offering; not a game of sport but something for the writer (and Fridge-o-phile) in all of us:
Magnetic Fridge Poetry!
Caveat: you don't have to use it for poetry exactly (trust me, a poet I find myself, uh, not to be).
But even for the stanza-challenged, or the verbally timid at heart, this can be a fun way to pass the time when there is nothing redeeming on TV---all right, fair enough, no one can afford to spend
that much time on anything, but you get the point.
If nothing else, think of this as a nice break from the mental challenges and toils of becoming the next infamous Sudoku champion!
And for those late nights with that special someone, there is, of course, the
erotic version.
(Really, how can you possibly go wrong with any hobby that also offers an erotic twist? No offense to the Sudoku weenies out there, but the creators of math games just haven't quite figured out how to make numbers all that sensual. I mean, sure, 8 is pretty sexy, but...)
I digress.
This obsession with fridge prose began for me when, for my birthday last year, my sister sent a cool gift called
Writer's Remedy, a product with a tagline that reads:
The Cure for Writer's Block.
Man, if you think that wasn't the granddaddy of all promises!
Now, for the record, I am not sure if this is the cure-all for that ominous blank page staring up at you, but I do have to say it
is a lot of fun (and it certainly doesn't hurt the flow of creative juices).
I also ended up surfing the old 'Net to see what else was out there in the way of fun, novelty products for you closet bards out there, and I found there is a fair cornucopia of
related products to tickle your creative sweet spot.
Just remember, as
W. Somerset Maugham once said:
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.