The mailbag was full this week, and it has forced me back into responding to things I write about...but that will end soon...and I blame myself entirely for this one.
When I start typing it is a mix of sarcasm, a black sense of humor, and honesty...with some shit that I write just to fuck with you and me...but that is a very small part of it. I have Todd "I probably shouldn't be saying this..." Clem disease. Some things I should type but I don't really think about it to be honest with you, and I just push out my thoughts. I don't like censoring myself so I write what I write and let the chips fall as they may.
I said that I might write something for this blog, but then I listed why I won't...in my mind despite saying maybe I put this issue to bed as I was writing it. It was me talking to me more than typing it for this blog. I will end this by saying, as nice as the emails were I am NOT going to write any fiction for this or any other blog. I do like the idea of writing some pulp stuff as writing exercises, but those aren't going to be a fair representation of my talents or of the direction I want my writing to go. I find the idea of writing some pulp stories PERSONALLY interesting, because it goes so far against who i am as a writer that it would be very, very difficult for me...despite my overwhelming love and respect for the works of James Ellroy.
I write short stories fairly frequently now and i don't post them...why would I do this. It would come off very badly because I am not a pulp writer and I am not claiming to be, I just need to learn brevity and I think those feeble attempts are best done where no one is subjected to read them. In the words of the great politician, Mayor Quimby, "may all of your disgraces be private ones." I do want to thank all of you who voiced support for this idea, but it ain't going to happen. There is no upside to it for me...maybe I am not seeing it but since I don't...
Arsenal is now 5 points up on the table.
Can you think of anyone more pathetic than someone who watches the Grammys? The Grammys weren't cool 15 years ago...now they are just fucking pathetic.
This is a great prank - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080211/ap_on_fe_st/odd_chickens_in_school
Obama is rolling...and I have to wonder...I like him...but is this more of the JFK vs. Nixon election. Hillary, by all accounts one scary fucking cunt...looks bad...and Obama playing the slick good looking politician running on "change." I have no fucking idea what "change" is coming...I don't think anyone does...but I like it for some reason. Instead of Style vs. Substance...it is Satan vs. Style.
Psychiatry is the new religion.
Oprah is the new Jesus.
Redemption isn't worth it anymore.
Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well. - Danish proverb
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Undistorted
Ah...being right about the Giants was not only rewarding financially...but is was so great to see the Patriots lose...and Tom Brady's all too perfect life get a little dose of reality. Those of you who took my great gambling advice I would like to say that so far my blogs have been 100% when it comes to gambling predictions. Of course on this I think I am only 3-0...but when the Gaming God gives you his picks...bet the house on it...literally...bet your house on it.
Legal Disclaimer: All sports predictions are for entertainment purposes only...you would have to be a fucking retard to listen to someone who blogs.
I love many of you...but honestly...I wonder about some of your reading comprehension...I was never going to comment on the blogs again because I got tired of it...but this time I will break with my rule and say this...THE LAST POST WAS NOT ABOUT A PERSON!!! Dear God Almighty I have no idea where the fuck that came from...but it was not. I cannot give any more details because I just don't want to start shit for loved ones...but if it ever comes out I will explain it all.
I will say that I found it interesting that many people wanted to know the "who." Which really is the great thing about writing...the readers got to put their own lives and their own situations into the story and when it was filtered out of their brain their own lives were interjected. People got to take from it what they want...they took from it what they needed...and applied it to what I wrote...and that is why I love writing...which answers the next question...
...why do I love Stranger Than Fiction as much as I do...and it is very, very simple...that movie explains why I love writing...why it is so special and so powerful...and so sad that less people do it all the time.
...I have been asked what I am reading right now...because I don't read much...if at all...when i write...I have been better about not absorbing what I read and put it into my writing...but my newest read isn't just a great read...but it is a learning experience for me...it is teaching me...yes...yes...me...brevity...yes...yes...I wrote "brevity" and "me" in the same string of words. The book is a fabulous collections of pulps from the Golden Age of pulps...it is called The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps. Excellent collection, and I am really learning as I enjoy myself.
Lastly...I am considering ripping off Stephen King...but I doubt I will. Over the last few weeks I have been asked more than at any time in the last few years to read some of the stuff I have written and keep blabbering about incessantly...that is something I am unwilling to do for most people...BUT...I have thought about this...writing a weekly serial and post it under my blogs...as much fun as it would be for me...this is why I won't do it:
1) it would be a PURE stream of conscience piece for me. I would not have anything more than a simple idea...
2) it would NOT be edited.
3) it would not be rewritten for errors.
4) it would be a very rough draft just for friends who feel like reading what I wrote.
5) I don't feel like reading 30 emails about my grammar and punctuation.
6) I am writing my 4th book and I would rather write for an audice of 1 than explain myself to a wider audience.
7) I know it would be pulp inspired...I would like to come up with a classic pulp character and have some fun playing with the common pulp themes.
8) It would be INTENTIONALLY low brow...just dime store novel type stuff.
All of those reasons and many more will keep my from writing my little pulp serial. Maybe I will post it somewhere else and if people want to read it they can email me, get the link...as long as they promise to never tell me what they think...I don't know...
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life. - Sir William Osler
Legal Disclaimer: All sports predictions are for entertainment purposes only...you would have to be a fucking retard to listen to someone who blogs.
I love many of you...but honestly...I wonder about some of your reading comprehension...I was never going to comment on the blogs again because I got tired of it...but this time I will break with my rule and say this...THE LAST POST WAS NOT ABOUT A PERSON!!! Dear God Almighty I have no idea where the fuck that came from...but it was not. I cannot give any more details because I just don't want to start shit for loved ones...but if it ever comes out I will explain it all.
I will say that I found it interesting that many people wanted to know the "who." Which really is the great thing about writing...the readers got to put their own lives and their own situations into the story and when it was filtered out of their brain their own lives were interjected. People got to take from it what they want...they took from it what they needed...and applied it to what I wrote...and that is why I love writing...which answers the next question...
...why do I love Stranger Than Fiction as much as I do...and it is very, very simple...that movie explains why I love writing...why it is so special and so powerful...and so sad that less people do it all the time.
...I have been asked what I am reading right now...because I don't read much...if at all...when i write...I have been better about not absorbing what I read and put it into my writing...but my newest read isn't just a great read...but it is a learning experience for me...it is teaching me...yes...yes...me...brevity...yes...yes...I wrote "brevity" and "me" in the same string of words. The book is a fabulous collections of pulps from the Golden Age of pulps...it is called The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps. Excellent collection, and I am really learning as I enjoy myself.
Lastly...I am considering ripping off Stephen King...but I doubt I will. Over the last few weeks I have been asked more than at any time in the last few years to read some of the stuff I have written and keep blabbering about incessantly...that is something I am unwilling to do for most people...BUT...I have thought about this...writing a weekly serial and post it under my blogs...as much fun as it would be for me...this is why I won't do it:
1) it would be a PURE stream of conscience piece for me. I would not have anything more than a simple idea...
2) it would NOT be edited.
3) it would not be rewritten for errors.
4) it would be a very rough draft just for friends who feel like reading what I wrote.
5) I don't feel like reading 30 emails about my grammar and punctuation.
6) I am writing my 4th book and I would rather write for an audice of 1 than explain myself to a wider audience.
7) I know it would be pulp inspired...I would like to come up with a classic pulp character and have some fun playing with the common pulp themes.
8) It would be INTENTIONALLY low brow...just dime store novel type stuff.
All of those reasons and many more will keep my from writing my little pulp serial. Maybe I will post it somewhere else and if people want to read it they can email me, get the link...as long as they promise to never tell me what they think...I don't know...
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life. - Sir William Osler
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