Yes, it's that day again, the day that just missed out on being Blooms day. Some time in some year or another, that wasn't last year, James 'Yo Jimbo!' Joyce sat down in some country or another, that wasn't Ireland or Russia, and began writing Ulysses. While not a very good book a huge campaign of viral emails and videos on youtube turned the book into a massive success.
For one reason or another I was in town yesterday and having finished my business prepared to head home. Ah but the allure of a bookstore! So in I stepped to my favorite haunt and for some reason it came to me that it would be Blooms Day soon. Checking the back of a copy of Ulysses I was presented with a date; 16th June 1904. My watch told me it was now(then) the 16th June 2008.
So fate had dragged me and my near empty pocket (which had just enough for a cheep copy of Ulysses, not the expensive 30e one) to a bookstore on Blooms Day. Well, my utter boredom had dragged me to a bookstore on Blooms Day. Like it does every other day. So it wasn't all that mystical acctually. It was Blooms Day and I bought the damn book o.k?
I'm kinda dissapointed because I swore I wouldn't read Ulysses until I had finished writing my own book. Firstly it's gone past 65,000 words so no one can start claiming I stole things from Ulysses. Second of all I don't think I'm ever going to finish it! I think it might be kinda crap. I'm going to wait until I hear from the literary agent I sent it too, a week yesterday, and see what they have to say. Then I'll stay up for six solid nights finishing it by copying whole tracts from Ulysses.

In posh voice: Did I mention I was reading Ulysses, yah? Yah, I've always been a fan of Yeats, his words speak so clearly to me in the book. Of course I can understand it! That part there? Um...that means...am...well, if I have to explain the book to you it obviously means you're too stupid to understand it!

I've so far gone through the first two chapters and am completly confussed. I love it! I had already read A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man and really liked it apart for a big spiel by one of the Brothers Christian about God and religion. Or something like that, I kinda zoned out.

I meant to post this last night when it was still Blooms day but didn't. Cause I was lazy. Anyway, did anyone do anything for Blooms day? Did you have a Ding Dong Denny's breakfast? Maybe David Norris accousted you in a back alleyway (good heavens!) and roared whole sections of the book at you? Did you get a sudden compultion to teach Roman or Greek history as a local school? Anyone?