“Passionate minutiae”

David frantically emailed me yesterday saying we needed to get together, it had been way too long, and we needed to sit and talk endlessly about “passionate minutiae”.

Nobody like David.

I can’t wait. I am allllll about passionate minutiae. You have no idea just how passionate my minutiae can get. You have no idea just how minute my passion can become. And etc. and etc.

I think I need to write a short story with that as the title. Or a poem. Or something.

David and me. Passionate minutiae. It’s gonna be a long night!

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4 Responses to “Passionate minutiae”

  1. Eric the...bald says:

    It’s a true friend that loves your passion for minutiae even if they don’t love your particular minutiae. I have been known to rhapsodize boringly on trivialities concerning the rock group Rush, for example, and it seems to be a divining rod between my “pleasant acquaintance” friends and my “connection in the soul” friends. Not whether they like Rush or not, but whether or not they get my passion.

  2. Nightfly says:

    Eric – you just reminded me of my only Rush joke – in a Christian bookstore, of all places. The bill came to $21.12, I said, “Good album,” and the proprietor (well old enough to have been in college when it debuted)…. just stared.

    My fiancee (bless her heart) didn’t know the joke either, but had the grace not to laugh at me while I died a small piece at a time, trying to explain this throwaway joke to a guy who didn’t even know a band named “Rush” ever existed.

    You have no idea just how passionate my minutiae can get.

    Sheila – on your sidebar this Monday, under recent entries:

    The books: “Still Life”
    Scanner Sunday
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    And Friday:

    Movie Quote
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    No, we have no idea about your passionate minutae! =D

  3. red says:

    Eric – you are so so right.

    It’s not about someone having to get on board with whatever you’re obsessed with … it’s that some -people DON’T GET obsession in the first place. They judge it, or they’re embarrassed by it – or … they think you should outgrow such things.

    That’s the kind of space I’ve tried to set up here on the blog. Where I can be obsessive without apology.

    To be fair – pretty much all of my friends in my real life totally get the “passionte minutia” thing in one way or another. It’s one of our main bonds. That we all do that with things we love.

    Maybe it’s cause most of us are artists or teachers – and a level of obsession is almost a job requirement, at least if you’re gonna be good at what you do.

  4. mitchell says:

    omg…passionate minutiae..im sure if any of u hear one more passionate diatribe about the supremacy of judy garland from…u’ll shoot me..or actually nope..u listen and validate and appreciate..thats why ur my best friends!!!!

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