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Kafkaesque!
Why does that stupid word keep popping into my head?
HOW do I even know what it means?
How did I get into this situation?
Why can't they just leave me alone?
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ADJ. 1. KAFKAESQUE-Relating to the writings of Franz Kafka.
2.Often characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger.
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If you or anyone you know has written a Friday Flash 55
Please come tell The G-Man!
I will visit, read, enjoy, comment...Then BOOK!
So from the most surreal host from coast to coast...
Have a Kick Ass Week-End!!!!
I don't get that feeling too much anymore. These days I'm usually in the good things are about to happen mode. Blame it on blogging, and all you awesome buds!!
ReplyDeleteYou will find my humble offering here
xo
Thanks, as always, for hosting!
xo
No Way?! Yahtzee?
ReplyDeleteyep!
:)
xo
Is that a real word? Pic goes well with the 55 G. Have a great weekend my friend :)
ReplyDeleteMy 55 is here.
i feel somewhat more intelligent now...and rather kafkaesque...nice 55 g!
ReplyDeletemine is up
55 - eating jello bareback
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ReplyDeleteWell Boo Boo. Isn't Mr. Know-It-All smarter than the average bear! Good one. Mine is up here. Good luck against the Fighting Irish.
ReplyDeleteI came here not knowing what to expect and that is exactly what I got. Way to kick this baby off, G. My Part III 55 is HERE .
ReplyDeleteHave never heard of this word before but have sure experienced the feeling attached to the word, especially in the last two weeks.
ReplyDeletea matter of perspective.. good one!
ReplyDeletemy kafkaesque perspective on forever
Is that real? Hmmm nice 55..
ReplyDeleteThis time a fiction and accidentally a poem too..
Part 1. True Love
Part 2. True Love Never Ends
--Someone Is Special--
where did you find that word? i am up too
ReplyDeleteHey there G-Man..thanks for your kind words on my post...I wrote a 55 and it made me feel good..Thanks
ReplyDeleteuber creepy, man! and i love a man with a big...vocabulary.
ReplyDeletei played
I've felt that way from time to time.:)
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ReplyDeleteFunny that you would write this...I sometimes get stuck on random words myself.
ReplyDeleteNever THIS word, of course. That would have been, well, *Kafkaesque*. Or something.
Happy Friday, Galen. I'm playing, too. Mine is HERE.
SCREWED UP AGAIN!!!
ReplyDeleteFunny thing, that word kafkaesque has been ruminating in my (as if!) brain for many ngseyxns. That was 'kafkaesque' for 'weeks', OK?
Confession time again: Mr G, since my last confession, I have once again combined my '55' with next Tuesday's MAGPIE (wish they would not start so far ahead!). I AM sorry, can you feel my pain?
At any rate, my '55-PIE' is HERE
Great post - love the image.
ReplyDeleteMy 55 is here.
Thanks!
Wonder what Kafka would have done with blogging???
ReplyDeleteG-Thanks for making this moon think for a bit.
Jannie - way to go girl!!!
Moon smiles
and as always thanks for being the host of this motley crew
I learned something new today, thanks G-Man! And isn't there a simpler word for this - like paranoia? (just kidding!)
ReplyDeleteI had so much fun last week, I had to do it again. And I know this link stuff in comments isn't going to work for me cuz even though Brian was kind enough to tell me how, I know I screwed up, but mine is not here - but there:
http://talonted.blogspot.com/2010/09/card-carrying-poet.html
oh i don't know the word.. but we've read some books of kafka during my school time…and i have to admit…i don't like him a lot…even he is a must read and whatever…still i like your 55 g-man!
ReplyDeletemine's here
Oh G-Man, what did you do to me? You mention Kafka, and I create this.
ReplyDeleteRead him. Not a fan. Truth be told, that's one writer I'd never have wanted to meet...scary place his brain.
Knowitall-esque
ReplyDeleteWarm Aloha from Waikiki
Comfort Spiral
It's funny, at first I didn't recognize the word at all, though I've used it many a time. It occurs to me I've heard it before, but haven't read it before.
ReplyDeleteMine is here
I never use the word...it's too high falutin' for me. I do, sometimes, have a sense of impending danger, though!
ReplyDeleteMine is at:
http://rnsane.blogspot.com/2010/09/flash-55-friday-raging-inferno.html#links
Good one as always G-Man. where do you get such ideas eh ??
ReplyDeleteMine in up too :
Smiles
You're going through quite a trial there ;-)
ReplyDeleteNice one.
You'll find mine here.
HERE YA GO
ReplyDeleteBe back tomorrow to read and comment. Can't wait, Thanks g-man. Hope you have a great weekend!
Awwww G-Man...you always give us something to ponder, donchya?
ReplyDeleteFor once, YOU have a kick-ass weekend!
Kafkaesque... eh? Love the word. I'll use it from now on... no matter it does not exist yet!
ReplyDeleteI will!
It does!
LOve that so kafkaesque picture.
Mine is up.
Hoping you like it and have one of those kick-ass weekends of yours G-Man!
:)
I did one this week!! Surprise!!! LOL
ReplyDeleteHappy weekend Galen. Oh, and the word....ya, I knew it all along. {NOT!!!} Excellent.
Here's Mine
I have more danger for you HERE
ReplyDeleteWell, 2012 is fast approaching so it's only natural to feel a bit nervous.
ReplyDeleteFlash 55 - Indignities
Strangely, Kafkaesque keeps cropping up in things that I'm reading too! Some words just do that to you sometimes. Excellent 55 today.
ReplyDeleteI'm here. Except I'm not - if you get my meaning.
Reality is for when you think you are alone...Here's my Friday 55. Hope your week goes well
ReplyDeleteWow, G-Man! You 55 was so... so... Kafkaesque! (LOL!)
ReplyDeleteMine will be ready later - I haven't had my coffee yet!
Well, I just learned something new. Now that word will be stuck in MY head all day!
ReplyDeleteMy humble effort can be found
HERE
Its been popping in your head? I have been living it literally , of the late!
ReplyDeleteMy 55ve is up Here
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ReplyDeleteI've never heard the word before but I've certainly had the feeling. ;)
ReplyDeleteI played this week.
Oh I love new words!
ReplyDeleteMine is up - get your coat you are coming for a walk!
Ney!
Ah,we are on the same wave length this week...danger. :)
ReplyDeleteBut you're fun, as always. Happy weekend! Mine's up.
The little angel standing to your left
ReplyDeletehas a candle, you are never in danger
when you have them kafkaesque!
Thanks!
does this help find mine ?
http://izzy-conversing.blogspot.com/
great now the word will be popping into my brain...
ReplyDeleteMy 55 is up.
I'm FINALLY finished!
ReplyDeleteFall in 55
Oh Galen, you are more like hot sausage than chopped liver, but definitely not Kafkaesque, leave that to Otin.
ReplyDeleteI'm just staying alive, and maybe commenting on one blog a day, and maybe get 2 comments a posting, ...o-k 3.
HAKAWE, Gman, and thanks for checking, even bloggers get lonely.
FabDi
I like to learn a new word everyday! Great picture to go with your clever 55. Mine is here.
ReplyDeleteWhen I get that feeling in my stomach I LISTEN! 9 times out of 10 it's right on as is your 55! Mine is up and have a rocking weekend!
ReplyDeleteI only feel surreal when things AREN'T Kafkaesque around here!
ReplyDeleteGood one, G-Man!
Oh, Galen! When you start talking about "they"... have they measured you for the straight jacket yet? (tee hee)
ReplyDeleteI wasn't going to play this week, but, alas, who can resist?
A Muse Suffers Indigestion
First time Friday Flasher (hmm...sounds a bit odd). My offering: Perspective
ReplyDeleteIs it a fiction or reality check?
ReplyDeleteAt least u take it out....
love the image...
Thanks for the fun 55.
Dear G-man:
ReplyDeletesorry for being absent last few days.
I was in another part of the world, blocked by a solid wall,
I am glad that I eventually overcome the obstacles and made my way to your place...
hope that you stay cool,
be a charming old you...
my 55
Better late than never! Mine is here.
ReplyDeletelol I knew I was in for some shit when I saw your name pop up on my blackberry as having left a comment. it seems I forgot to pop over lol I am only 41 too, ouch!
ReplyDeletenice 55, but now I am all paranoid and feeling watched... thanks alot!
I've been looking for a word to describe my mood before my morning coffee...now I've found it! :-D
ReplyDeleteMine is up..have a G-reat weekend.
http://kimayscue.blogspot.com/
♥namaste♥
I did one I did one LOL
ReplyDeleteA Kafka-55, man, now that's class!
I hope that doesn't mean you are turning into a giant cockroach!
ReplyDeleteMine is here..http://razzamadazzle.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/friday-flash-55-the-carousel/
Pending doom -- like the feeling I have in the pit of my stomach when I forgot to post for Friday Flash 55.
ReplyDeleteWas it because I was having too much fun? too many chores? or just not thinking? pick the best choice and that is my excuse and I am sticking with it.
Happy FF 55,
Odd word, great 55er especially for all of us who like word smithing, or the bizarre and unusual.
Joanny
http://thedowsersdaughter.blogspot.com/
Ah, Kafka. Some days I know him well.
ReplyDeleteGalen, mine is up. It's a repeat. I've got the crummy tummy. Can't think. Hopefully, there are a few readers who will not have read it before. D
Holy S--t now I know how to describe my life at present....Kafkaesque.....
ReplyDeletesurreal and impending danger.
Nice 55 G-Man.
Very late, but not never. Mine is finally up.
PG
It's probably from all those apples, donuts and cider you had the other day! :D My 55 will be up soon...promise!
ReplyDeleteyeah I have been feeling Kafka-like all week--good one g! Well, didn't want to disappoint you so better late than never as they say-I'm up-have a great weekend !! c
ReplyDeleteThe tunnel seems so Freudian....
ReplyDeleteGah!
ReplyDeleteI sure understand the "sense of impending doom" lately.
All kinds of stuff is going on in my usually uneventful life.
But, here I am nonetheless, a day late and a couple hundred short.
Rest assured that my 55 was up on time, and it's only my comment here that's late. :)
Here I am.
Visit soon, before I become completely engulfed in the impending doom. Or at least before I wake up.
Going to bed now.
Zzzzzzz.
hey sometimes I feel like that .. I'm up and ready for the friday gang
ReplyDeleteRock Spray
Thanks for all of your comments and thanks for Visiting also...
Larry