After several inquiries to why i have been silent recently...I figured I will type something...it could be two sentences it could be the insane ramblings of an insane rambler...but here we go...and for some reason I am listening to Skid Row's Slave To The Grind...what the fuck...
that has to tell you that my life is in a weird place full of self-flagellation, mediocrity and the lack of desire for anything of quality...
anyway...
There is a lot i want to say, that i am screaming to say...but i know that if i get into it I won't really explain my situation so it will be a really lame...more lame than most...series of veiled references and innuendos that I won't explain anytime soon...so I will just avoid it all...
I will just list the mundane and call it a night...
after last nights...fuck it...i have nothing to say.I have always prided myself on being brutally...if not pathetically honest in this thing, i use it as a cathartic experience...and since i only write these for friends now I feel like i can say more than normal...but not this time.
I will just leave it at this...everything in my life is at a complete and total standstill. I can't write. I can't think straight. The pressure is starting to build and i don't have any way to really release it. Writing has been it but I am so fucking pissed, frustrated...pained...that I just can't let myself open up because I know once i do i am going to fucking really let loose...and i would rather just stay closed off and rational right now. It seems better than artistic...which gets me...in the great tradition of shitty no talent artist types...into really really stupid trouble. If i can just keep everything bottled up inside i will be be able to keep reliving every fucking moment until finally some clarity...or explosive psychosis...takes place. When i start to write i start to open up and when i open up...it isn't always good. This way i can just hold it in and hope for the best.
I doubt i will ever explain any of this...but whatever...life sucks and everyone has their own shit. I don't think you will feel incomplete without it...
indurate \IN-dur-it; -dyur-\, adjective:
1. Physically or morally hardened; unfeeling; stubborn.
2. To make hard; to harden.
3. To harden against; to make hardy; to habituate.
4. To make hardened; to make callous or stubborn.
5. To establish; to fix firmly.
6. To grow hard; to harden.
7. To become established or fixed.
It's important to have in mind that evil is essential to the order of the world and the birth of the good. - Voltaire
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Vapid - Update...
Tonight something life changing happened...after years of searching, years of hunting, years of pain, years of misery, years of longing...I found it...I saw it...I bought it...I bought two. Tonight I stumbled upon Old El Paso Gordita Mix. As some would know, Jake especially, that in college I lived on these things. The gorditas are delicious and the spicy ranch dressing should be poured on everything from gorditas, chocolate cake, fish, a woman's flat stomach, and all points in between. I don't have to tell you that those lovely pieces of heaven will be consumed draft weekend.
With the good comes the bad...tonight I was embarrassed to love Pennsylvania. I don't think I have to say why. The embracing of evil fascinates me.
With the good and the bad comes the best...THE FLYERS WON!!! Go Flyers!!!
With the good comes the bad...tonight I was embarrassed to love Pennsylvania. I don't think I have to say why. The embracing of evil fascinates me.
With the good and the bad comes the best...THE FLYERS WON!!! Go Flyers!!!
Utterings from the Unknown
Just some randomness on a beautiful Las Vegas day...
- I just picked up another version of Candide...my favorite book. This one is terrific, the Norton Critical 2nd Edition. If you haven't read the book, and you want to, I would buy this one.
- I am waiting for another book to arrive, a book I have been recommended many, many times...but never read. I am not sure why, but I am excited about reading it...it is called Confederacy Of Dunces.
- Serra vs. St. Pierre...I saw it...terrible.
- Arsenal is out of contention for any silverware this year...again. That sucked.
- Still love my new phone.
- Artie Lange was not fired...discuss amongst yourselves.
- The greatest weekend in the world is about to take place...it is what every man, woman and child should celebrate in song and dance...of course it can only be one thing...NFL DRAFT! This year is going to be great ladies and gents...the Dolphins stole a little of the suspense with the announcement today...but this first round should be really good.
Of course to celebrate my lovely mother will be sending the greatest snack food ever...the dessert of all desserts...the dessert in the desert...Tastycakes. I am sure I announced this before but it should be announced on the front page of all media outlets...there is now double iced Tastycakes...to anyone who knows of the joy...the pure and utter bliss of Tastycakes...you know what a great fucking thing that is...what coma inducing pleasure it can cause.
- I saw the Movie "23" with Jim Carrey...I was told the movie was going to be fucking horrible. I didn't feel that way at all. I didn't think it was good, and the middle let the movie down considerably...but all in all..there is a lot worse shit out there. For example, the infamous and filth loving Babbles McPigman POY CPO, is right now seeing the new Jet Li and Jackie Chan movie...that must be shit of the highest order. Can you imagine what color the sky is in the alternative universe where that movie could be good? My guess...mauve.
- I have made a terribly disturbing discovery...something odd...something unusual...something disconcerting. My fantasy baseball team in in the top half of the league...which is a good thing...except...I DID NOT DRAFT THE TEAM!!! The last 4 years I was in the bottom part, except once, and I drafted those teams. So I should be happy...but I just don't know what to think of a team where I didn't draft the players doing much better than a team I did draft.
- Flyers are going into a 7th game.
- I saw "American Pie" for the first time in a long time...and I have to say that "suck my beautiful" might be the funniest line in cinematic history...that is a disturbed write. Amen.
The writing is going well, and the job hunt is still going...I would get more into that...but it isn't the time right now. Not at all. When I get a chance...when the time is right...I will post something about it...it is fascinating.
Stay classy cyber geeks.
It's important to have in mind that evil is essential to the order of the world and the birth of the good. - Voltaire
- I just picked up another version of Candide...my favorite book. This one is terrific, the Norton Critical 2nd Edition. If you haven't read the book, and you want to, I would buy this one.
- I am waiting for another book to arrive, a book I have been recommended many, many times...but never read. I am not sure why, but I am excited about reading it...it is called Confederacy Of Dunces.
- Serra vs. St. Pierre...I saw it...terrible.
- Arsenal is out of contention for any silverware this year...again. That sucked.
- Still love my new phone.
- Artie Lange was not fired...discuss amongst yourselves.
- The greatest weekend in the world is about to take place...it is what every man, woman and child should celebrate in song and dance...of course it can only be one thing...NFL DRAFT! This year is going to be great ladies and gents...the Dolphins stole a little of the suspense with the announcement today...but this first round should be really good.
Of course to celebrate my lovely mother will be sending the greatest snack food ever...the dessert of all desserts...the dessert in the desert...Tastycakes. I am sure I announced this before but it should be announced on the front page of all media outlets...there is now double iced Tastycakes...to anyone who knows of the joy...the pure and utter bliss of Tastycakes...you know what a great fucking thing that is...what coma inducing pleasure it can cause.
- I saw the Movie "23" with Jim Carrey...I was told the movie was going to be fucking horrible. I didn't feel that way at all. I didn't think it was good, and the middle let the movie down considerably...but all in all..there is a lot worse shit out there. For example, the infamous and filth loving Babbles McPigman POY CPO, is right now seeing the new Jet Li and Jackie Chan movie...that must be shit of the highest order. Can you imagine what color the sky is in the alternative universe where that movie could be good? My guess...mauve.
- I have made a terribly disturbing discovery...something odd...something unusual...something disconcerting. My fantasy baseball team in in the top half of the league...which is a good thing...except...I DID NOT DRAFT THE TEAM!!! The last 4 years I was in the bottom part, except once, and I drafted those teams. So I should be happy...but I just don't know what to think of a team where I didn't draft the players doing much better than a team I did draft.
- Flyers are going into a 7th game.
- I saw "American Pie" for the first time in a long time...and I have to say that "suck my beautiful" might be the funniest line in cinematic history...that is a disturbed write. Amen.
The writing is going well, and the job hunt is still going...I would get more into that...but it isn't the time right now. Not at all. When I get a chance...when the time is right...I will post something about it...it is fascinating.
Stay classy cyber geeks.
It's important to have in mind that evil is essential to the order of the world and the birth of the good. - Voltaire
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Majority Report
An update for those who have requested a blog...yes...the level of depravity has truly hit rock bottom.
I am still out of work, which isn't a bad thing. I am taking my time to find the right job this time. I am not rushing into anything...not that I have really been beating the bushes too hard. Perhaps I should considering this fucking idiot we have BBQ'ing in the White House has tanked this economy harder than a Japanese Zero pilot on a kamikaze mission. On a quick aside...can we start a movement to sterilize anyone who is a still Bush supporter? Before you answer...think of this...can we keep this stupidity in the gene pool and still hope for a better world? Anyway...I am starting to look for work more...but the joys of writing and Las Vegas have kept me very busy.
...still with my limited and very particular job search I have been contacted by some good companies and I will be working on that much more over the next few weeks. I hate not working and it if wasn't for the writing I would have gone crazy by now. I have some interesting things in the works...some very, very fascinating inquiries...some that would absolutely shock and surprise the vast majority of the readers. I will stay quiet for now until I hear more things. Things are definitely interesting.
...writing...it has been so good. I have been really on fire and I am starting to close in on the end of book 4...which will absolutely mean that there will be a 5th book that will go unread. I don't care, I love writing and I don't care if anyone else reads it. I just want to do what i love, and i don't care if anyone knows it. A major mental breakthrough for me and it has liberated my thinking...which has made for some great writing. It is a shame that no one will read it because this book is just amazing...and dear God would it piss off so many people...I have said that before...and I will also say I never meant to do it...the idea came from nowhere and very organically.
I got my new phone...it kicks ass. It is a damn good phone and now I can use it for a while...until the 3g iPhone makes it's debut.
Now for the bad...
...Arsenal lost on the most bullshit of bullshit calls...so no Champions League title this year. no silverware at all. A crushing defeat. This one hurt.
...other than that...nothing bad. Life is actually pretty good. Warm, sunny and breezy here in paradise. Enjoy yourself.
The reputation you develop for intellectual and ethical integrity will be your greatest asset or your worst enemy. You will be judged by your judgment. ... There is no victory, no advantage, no fee, no favor, which is worth even a blemish on your reputation for intellect and integrity. ... Dents to [your] reputation are irreparable. - Vincent Foster.
I am still out of work, which isn't a bad thing. I am taking my time to find the right job this time. I am not rushing into anything...not that I have really been beating the bushes too hard. Perhaps I should considering this fucking idiot we have BBQ'ing in the White House has tanked this economy harder than a Japanese Zero pilot on a kamikaze mission. On a quick aside...can we start a movement to sterilize anyone who is a still Bush supporter? Before you answer...think of this...can we keep this stupidity in the gene pool and still hope for a better world? Anyway...I am starting to look for work more...but the joys of writing and Las Vegas have kept me very busy.
...still with my limited and very particular job search I have been contacted by some good companies and I will be working on that much more over the next few weeks. I hate not working and it if wasn't for the writing I would have gone crazy by now. I have some interesting things in the works...some very, very fascinating inquiries...some that would absolutely shock and surprise the vast majority of the readers. I will stay quiet for now until I hear more things. Things are definitely interesting.
...writing...it has been so good. I have been really on fire and I am starting to close in on the end of book 4...which will absolutely mean that there will be a 5th book that will go unread. I don't care, I love writing and I don't care if anyone else reads it. I just want to do what i love, and i don't care if anyone knows it. A major mental breakthrough for me and it has liberated my thinking...which has made for some great writing. It is a shame that no one will read it because this book is just amazing...and dear God would it piss off so many people...I have said that before...and I will also say I never meant to do it...the idea came from nowhere and very organically.
I got my new phone...it kicks ass. It is a damn good phone and now I can use it for a while...until the 3g iPhone makes it's debut.
Now for the bad...
...Arsenal lost on the most bullshit of bullshit calls...so no Champions League title this year. no silverware at all. A crushing defeat. This one hurt.
...other than that...nothing bad. Life is actually pretty good. Warm, sunny and breezy here in paradise. Enjoy yourself.
The reputation you develop for intellectual and ethical integrity will be your greatest asset or your worst enemy. You will be judged by your judgment. ... There is no victory, no advantage, no fee, no favor, which is worth even a blemish on your reputation for intellect and integrity. ... Dents to [your] reputation are irreparable. - Vincent Foster.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
A Tale Of Three Tales
This blog is a tale of 3 tales. A boy who found decency at great personal peril. A woman who found pure evil strike straight to the American psyche. A question of decency and evil.
I watched a South African film called Tsotsi tonight. I make these recommendations with great resrvation because everyone has their own tastes. This film I couldn't keep my praise silent simply because I don't think many people will seen South African films...but I highly suggest if you have the opportunity take the time and watch. It is the kind of film that can never be made in the good ole USA because we turn our heads at stark reality and beautiful brutality. We like our reality distinctively not real...take a look at all these shitty "reality" tv shows. Reality is the farthest thing from any of them, but still we watch...fictional reality...what a fucking concept. Tsotsi is too complex and too real for most of America to stomach. It is a commendable tale of redemption and decency...the kind of uncomfortable moral grey zone we do not like. Black and White. Good and Bad. Coke or Pepsi. We are the land of the obtuse and of the obese. Sadly we are getting more obtuse and more obese. I wonder if this was what Rome was like right before the fall. A populus unable to to comprehend the degredation of greatness...if it was every great at all.
In the USA our degredation of greatness goes on unabaded. When given the chance between hope and fear...for the second straight election season...the American public has given fear another chance to win. I never get political on this thing, but ladies and germs if you don't see Hillary Clinton as pure evil I question your ability to understand anything. Forget the obvouls lies, deceptions, distortions, and criminal activity...if you can. Forget Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Troopergate, and her declaration of a "vast right wing conspiracy"...before she found out about the blue dress...and she politicize her husbands affair...for their own ends. Forget about the mysterious deaths of Vince Foster and Trooper Parks. Forget about STEALING FURNITURE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE! Forget about the fact that she has no international experince. Forget about the fact that she has done nothing of note for NY, and that she is a democratic senator in a large democartic state with heavy union influence and can practically run itself. Forget about the fact that she will REQUIRE you to buy insurance if you want it or not. Forget about it all if you can...because her version of Karl Rove will scare you, she will spread her evil into your all to willing hearts. She will make you think Obama is a muslim, that she will answer that ringing phone in the middle of the night...like she did when she voted to invade Iraq and get us into all of this shit. Embrace the horror that she will spoon feed you all. George Bush Jr. did the same thing...and it worked so well. Why not have another lying career politician who takes almost all special interest money and won't give a fuck about you. Forget it all...she has scared your cowardly hearts...and it will work. Evil beats good all the time...get ready to not only watch it happen...but for most of you...you will participate in it. If you get the evil on you...embrace it...roll around in it...love it...don't hate it because you need it...try to believe it and hide your eyes from everything else.
Lastly, a story of the nature of good and evil...what consititutes evil...would one bad act make someone irrevicably broken. I can't get into specifics because it is a chapter of one of my never to be read books...but it asks a simple question...with no possible answer...what is it that makes someone "bad." Can one bad act erase all of the good? I took my idea from a true story...do your own research...it is about a murder in the Peace Corps. No answer. No truth. No epiphany. Just the moral abyss. The quagmire of individual judgement from a society who needs to judge everyone.
On a lighter note...see what writing does to me...
Arsenal beat AC Milan to advance in the Champions League. The first EPL team to beat AC Milan in Italy.
The Wire ends on Sunday...and that is a shame. One of the best TV shows of all times, and for all of you who are still...personal attack deleted...that think the Sopranos was any good whatsoever...you have never seen The Wire. It blows that shitty go nowhere show away.
The iPhone is finally becoming more business friendly...about time. When the 3G version comes out...game over.
Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations is easily the funniest thing on TV.
If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. - James A. Garfield
I watched a South African film called Tsotsi tonight. I make these recommendations with great resrvation because everyone has their own tastes. This film I couldn't keep my praise silent simply because I don't think many people will seen South African films...but I highly suggest if you have the opportunity take the time and watch. It is the kind of film that can never be made in the good ole USA because we turn our heads at stark reality and beautiful brutality. We like our reality distinctively not real...take a look at all these shitty "reality" tv shows. Reality is the farthest thing from any of them, but still we watch...fictional reality...what a fucking concept. Tsotsi is too complex and too real for most of America to stomach. It is a commendable tale of redemption and decency...the kind of uncomfortable moral grey zone we do not like. Black and White. Good and Bad. Coke or Pepsi. We are the land of the obtuse and of the obese. Sadly we are getting more obtuse and more obese. I wonder if this was what Rome was like right before the fall. A populus unable to to comprehend the degredation of greatness...if it was every great at all.
In the USA our degredation of greatness goes on unabaded. When given the chance between hope and fear...for the second straight election season...the American public has given fear another chance to win. I never get political on this thing, but ladies and germs if you don't see Hillary Clinton as pure evil I question your ability to understand anything. Forget the obvouls lies, deceptions, distortions, and criminal activity...if you can. Forget Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Troopergate, and her declaration of a "vast right wing conspiracy"...before she found out about the blue dress...and she politicize her husbands affair...for their own ends. Forget about the mysterious deaths of Vince Foster and Trooper Parks. Forget about STEALING FURNITURE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE! Forget about the fact that she has no international experince. Forget about the fact that she has done nothing of note for NY, and that she is a democratic senator in a large democartic state with heavy union influence and can practically run itself. Forget about the fact that she will REQUIRE you to buy insurance if you want it or not. Forget about it all if you can...because her version of Karl Rove will scare you, she will spread her evil into your all to willing hearts. She will make you think Obama is a muslim, that she will answer that ringing phone in the middle of the night...like she did when she voted to invade Iraq and get us into all of this shit. Embrace the horror that she will spoon feed you all. George Bush Jr. did the same thing...and it worked so well. Why not have another lying career politician who takes almost all special interest money and won't give a fuck about you. Forget it all...she has scared your cowardly hearts...and it will work. Evil beats good all the time...get ready to not only watch it happen...but for most of you...you will participate in it. If you get the evil on you...embrace it...roll around in it...love it...don't hate it because you need it...try to believe it and hide your eyes from everything else.
Lastly, a story of the nature of good and evil...what consititutes evil...would one bad act make someone irrevicably broken. I can't get into specifics because it is a chapter of one of my never to be read books...but it asks a simple question...with no possible answer...what is it that makes someone "bad." Can one bad act erase all of the good? I took my idea from a true story...do your own research...it is about a murder in the Peace Corps. No answer. No truth. No epiphany. Just the moral abyss. The quagmire of individual judgement from a society who needs to judge everyone.
On a lighter note...see what writing does to me...
Arsenal beat AC Milan to advance in the Champions League. The first EPL team to beat AC Milan in Italy.
The Wire ends on Sunday...and that is a shame. One of the best TV shows of all times, and for all of you who are still...personal attack deleted...that think the Sopranos was any good whatsoever...you have never seen The Wire. It blows that shitty go nowhere show away.
The iPhone is finally becoming more business friendly...about time. When the 3G version comes out...game over.
Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations is easily the funniest thing on TV.
If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. - James A. Garfield
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
perfunctory publishing
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
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
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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