Babes: Oh Katie, I know that empty feeling.

Posted: March 22nd, 2010 | Author: Zim | Filed under: Babes | No Comments »

Our dear Canuckian Princess, Katie West.

• Photographic Goddess Katie West hasn’t posted much in the way of new pics of late, laments the fact…
• If you’ve never been over to see her work or follow her on the web, you’re missing out on some sincerely pleasing voyeurism…
• Yes, I am now over Canada beating the USA in hockey.

by Mike Zimmer, “art aficionado”

Katie, Katie, Katie…I love you so.  Allow me to count the ways:  Or, just let me pimp your site a bit to those that come to mine who may not have seen your brilliant photos, read your sometimes soulful, sometimes sexy blogs or generally been able to look in on the life that you show us on the intergooglewebnets.  (www.katiewest.ca)

Ms. Katie is a favorite of mine (or favourite if you must) and I enjoy taking a peak at her blog every day.  The tag-line over at her Tumblr “Come for the breasts, stay for the heart” is snarky and true, but also a bit misleading.  Sure, sure, do I love seeing her pictures, mostly of her, more often than not with her in some state of either undress, sensual or sexually charged pose?  Why, yes I do.  Do I also love to read her blog, research her topic posts and hit the links she pastes too?  Yep, that too.  Is it…porn?  Well, no.  It’s love.  And fantastic art.  Her photography really is wonderful.

The Canadian Goddess however fantastically talented with her lens, is a worker bee just like the rest of us.  Despite being wildly popular and with many followers, she’s a working girl, filling her hours with a job and living long days like any of the rest of us.  Recently though, the art has been sparse, the pictures further and further in-between.  Today, she lamented on her blog that, well, it just hasn’t been happening lately and she’s not been in the mood (http://therealkatiewest.tumblr.com/post/463743424/here-is-some-truth-lately-i-dont-want-to-take)

Oh, Ms. West, I do know the feeling.

As your beloved guide on this horribly twisted and winding journey here at the Kegerator Nation, I too run into these dry spells.  The words won’t come, the inspiration running dry, the will to carry the load of an entire nation on my back…well…not always there.

Even when the posts come fast and furious for this hear site, the words don’t always flow for anything else personally meaningful.  For myself as a writer in general, someone who wants to write for a living, and write a novel, I can also completely understand.  Recently, I’ve handed over the long coming tome (or as Big B calls it ‘The Great American Novel’ before he launches into that skit from ‘Family Guy’ where Stewie grills Brian in that patronizing squeaky voice) to a dear friend for review, and have lately sketched out some outlines for further chapters.  This would mean the first meaningful additions to the novel in months, back into the early part of the fall in fact.

Katie West, she of the lovely voyeurism, seemingly so awe inspiring, herself awe inspired, also has such doldrums I guess.  To be honest, I feel her pain, I know that empty feeling,, yet, I am encouraged.  If she can endure such a dry spell, perhaps my writing can too. 

Even if I don’t have fantastic breasts or delicious cats eyes, even if I don’t have the whip smart sense of an educated girl in the big city or the nerd chic that is strangely intoxicating, even if I don’t have the following of a thousand admiring gawkers, I can over come…just like Katie.  As she has in the past through other fits and starts to her wonderful collection of photos, her snippets of abbreviated and evocative writing and occasional glimpses into her life, she’ll find her way back.  So, shall I.

Have you gone there yet?  I mean, come on, she’s great ain’t she?

Now love me too damn it!!!

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