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Dear weekend moderator
Posted Aug 11, 2002
who is fascinated with me...
at least refer the postings you yikes
for moderation...or get a clue...
like take a look at some of my backlog
during the week...
or at least drop me a line
so I know you really care...
and are just trying to protect the innocents
of this site from my preying
influence....
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Goodbye, Leo...
Posted Jul 24, 2002
really not happy about this one.
I'm glad he's out of pain.
but I'm kind of mad at myself
for not having had a clue that
he was unwell.
Ah.
I raise a glass of Chateau Marmoset and smoke a cheap cigar...
to the only lawyer or lawyer figure that I ever thought was human...
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Latest reply: Jul 24, 2002
Convergence of reality and typing...
Posted Jul 17, 2002
I am hammering my first draft of my first bad novel into a second draft of a not-so-bad novel and I have wrecked my momentum and enthusiasm on a page where the absurdities and minor inconsistencies spread across the vast pages have accumulated into a massive roadblock of irrational rubble.
This is disturbing for many reasons:
1. I write so that I can be in charge of something without anyone, for the moment, coming along and saying,"That's not right. Stop that."
2. The world of my fiction is supposed to be much more comfortable than the world of my personal life.
3. I wrote this dreck.
4. I wouldn't put up with this in anyone else's writing.
5. If I really want to change it, I have to go back about five chapters, and I'm two-thirds of the way through the book...
6. It strongly suggests that I'm going to have to rework a lot in the third draft, but...
7. Since it was a year a and half between finishing the first draft and becoming unsick of it enough to tackle a second draft, how long will it take me to get around the third draft if I can't get it out of my head how much work it's going to take to bring this tome up to even my minimum standards.
8. It is at times like this that I consider giving up and never criticizing another writer.
9. It is at times like this that statements such as the last one make me so mad that I resolve to write a book about such things...
10. It is at times like this that statements such as that very last one make me so frustrated that I wish I could fictionalize the whole struggle I have with reality and just let fly at everything in the universe that bugs me...
oh...I already have...
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Latest reply: Jul 17, 2002
More television producers than miners...
Posted Jul 10, 2002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_2118000/2118318.stm
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34-34-34, a bit barrel-shaped , but full of joy...
Posted Jun 22, 2002
Hope.
That is what I wish to mushily mumble about today.
Hope.
I was offered hope as a child and I took a healthy scoop of it and ingested it without chewing.
Nowadays, when I take a spoonful, I feel around for the lumpy bits and the hard shells that come with it from the factory.
Do you think if the spinmeisters told us everything was dark and bleak and hopeless, that reality would seem that much brighter and hope-filled by comparison?
Or is it necessary for our collective manic/depression to be lied to, so we can justify our paranoia?
When I was a child, I thought, in my literal little mind, that if Adults weren't such fools, the arrival and departure of Jesus wouldn't be celebrated in the same year.
I figured that the birth should be celebrated nine months after the ascension, and the next ascension celebrated thirty-three years after the birth, to give people, and children, a sense of scale, instead of celebrating both in the same year, year after year, like broadcasting in a couple of months the complete and utter reruns of a show that took nine years to originally produce...
There is no hope in repitition.
There has to be a progression of some sort.
And not in the quality of the lies,
because those are reruns, too.
You'd think education would occasionally stimulate innovation instead of bone-stick-stupid imitation.
Of course, what good is innovation if the public (and I use the term loosely, because, in a major sense, most of them remain intensely private) doesn't know enough about the context to appreciate it?
If they don't know anything, then everything is new to them!
Thus, remakes of really bad movies...
and soap operas ripping off Thucydides (sp?)...
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Latest reply: Jun 22, 2002
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