Liner Notes

I dithered for a while before launching this blog about whether to start each post with some context or a note about what led me to write the poem. Eventually, I decided the poems should stand on their own. But after a couple of months, I published one that I really wanted to explain. For a while I managed to put up a new liner note for every poem on Geektastic Pentameter.

But then I didn’t. I started to fall into a pattern of writing poems that seemed only to have very obvious liner notes, like “Everything’s fine now” or “I’ve been playing a lot of Minecraft.” Those aren’t particularly interesting notes to read or to write. There’s some level of self-critcism going on, too, because part of me thinks a poem that has only an obvious liner note isn’t a very good poem.

So I’m not really trying to write a liner note for every poem anymore. Apart from a couple of attempts to go back and get caught up on them, I haven’t written one in a while. I’ll write one if I feel like doing it, but if I don’t, that’s OK, too.

The ones that exist are in chronological order. I haven’t found another way to order them that doesn’t require effort.

This page has the following sub pages.

• The Experiment – In More Ways than One
• On the Song on the Astronauts on the Ship on the Swell – A Love Song to Sea Monkeys & John Roderick
• Soon, the Future – With Love to Jonathan Coulton
• The Airplane – Me and My Phobia
• New Vegas – A Great Game But For the Crashing
• Love Song to Joshua Bell – The Geek Violinist
• Love Song to Donna Noble – The Best (New) Companion (So Far)
• Love Song to Gravity On the Falling of Leaves – Unexpected Beauty
• Double-blind – In Which the Secret Is Not a Crush
• Long Past Gone – Hiding in the Vines
• Sonnet for Madmartigan – Kind of Like a Dare
• Not Exactly Loneliness – It’s About My Feelings, but Please Read it Anyway
• Lemmings – Escapism in Purple
• Kentucky Saddler – Non-thoroughbred of Win
• Haiku: Museum of Science and Industry – Phone for You, Ma’am
• Superhero (Drum Corps, 1992) – I Was Badass Once
• Limerick for GLaDOS – Magic Borne from Twitter
• Delight, Delirium, Delight – Not Exactly About Reading ‘Sandman’
• Sarah Jane – Sadly, Just What It Sounds Like
• Desiderate. Desiderate. – The Saddest Punch Line
• An Ear of Corn to Make You Better – Context in Four Parts
• I Love You, You Monster – GLaDOS, Again
• Carry-out Line, May 2011 — The Egret Stalks, The Window Closes
• A Short Cut to Mushrooms – I So Meant to Be Happy
• Kermit Hands – YAAAAAAAY!
• The Road to Lake Arrowhead — Unfair Comparisons
• Lyranne, Two Years Later — I Accidentally a Blind Rage
• Moose and Squirrel — Rewards and Bribes
• The Trainer and the Bride — Be Careful What You Wish For
• State – Push Facebook to Open Old Wounds
• Bootstrapping – The First Joyful Poem
• Come-alongs — I Stole This from Myself
• Already There – Another Line
• Dawn on the Disc – The Other Books and the Other Shoe
• Obsolescence – Other Than Intended
• Later – Famous Tracy’s OK Cupid Adventure
• Alprazolam – Taking the Leap
• Sackboy – Voiceover by Stephen Fry Would Be Appreciated
• Concrete – Who’s old?
• Fear Me Again – Feared Into the Whelps
• Jump (I) – Part One of … (and Jump (II))
• Rather Not – Pete and Repeat Sat on a Wall
• After the Havens – Revelations on First Avenue
• Embraces – A Little Too Close to Home
• Breathing – Deflecting
• 50k – Why I Do NaNoWriMo
• Fishing – Electric Nostalgia
• Colossus – On the Other Side
• Introvert – According to Type
• Schrödinger – Not About a Cat
• Love Letter to Arithmetic – Still On my Fingers
• Wind Like Edoras – Flattery of Autumn
• Fog – Wandering
• You See a Yellow Gingko in a Field – The Joy of Autumn
• Challenge – Rereading
• Dual Boot – The Things I Do for Friendship
• Kaliyo – Constant Confusion
• Star Tours – The Biggest Disappointment of the Year (So Far)
• Mansplanations to Susan – Or to Me
• Teldrassil – Phoning Old Territory
• Trebuchet – Under Siege
• Tilting – What’s Underneath
• A Poem Listing All the Things We Know – Which Isn’t Much
• Red – Choosing a Shade
• Longitude – In Which the World Feels About as Big as Douglas Adams Describes Space
• Treadmill – Breaking the Streak
• Kira at Bashi – Tell it Again
• Ladyhawke – Brief Greetings from Manila
• The Lost iMessages – And One Panic
• Side – On Video Game Time
• First Night – A View from the World of Minecraft
• Obsidian – Another Other View on the World of Minecraft
• Spire – An Actual View in the World of Minecraft
• Dividing the Alar – And My Mind
• Not a Gun – And Not ‘The Iron Giant’
• Today’s Lucky 10,000 – With Thanks to xkcd
• After the Assembly – And a Feeling I Don’t Remember
• The Same Ship Twice – ‘Different’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Bad’
• Resurrections – Please Just Let Dead Characters Be Dead
• Platform – A Metaphor for … Something
• Colossus (II) – Another Side of the Story
• And Rohan Will Answer – Or Someone Else