blahI have had a very rough couple of days. I've been feeling extremely disconnected, dissociated, depersonalized. I have been, for all of that, fairly productive in terms of poetry.
My writing is on an upswing due, perhaps, to the discovery of Inkwell Manor Scribes, a "Virtual Home for Aspiring Writers". The place is basically a bulletin board. I am enjoying the community there and recommend it to writers of poetry or prose who want a place to hang out where you can get (non-professional) critiques of your efforts. My friend the Mighty Ed has joined and will be participating in some of the "efforts" I am pondering. We are pondering, actually. The site has a good assortment of poetry for those who are interested. There are also some interesting interactive fiction things going on. I have hopes for the place.
Billy linked an article having something to do with writing and stirred me up for a while yesterday. Some moronic High School student wrote a vulgar little bit of trash posing as a cautionary tale against wet dreams and got "Baker Acted" (or whatever the equivalent law was for his state) for his trouble. The full tale of his incarceration and subsequent release reveals that he had written a "fantasy" in which he kills his obnoxious teacher. For this, the kid was put in a mental institution and forced to vindicate himself (he did) without the school bothering to talk to him, send him to a school counselor, or even call his mother. Need I say "zero tolerance" equals "zero thought"? The brat should be paddled for his potty mouth and the bad manners of thinly veiled threats in a school venue. Institutionalizing him was simply vile.
A - Accent: I'd like to say "American" but that is so nondescript as to be useless. Uh… Educated Middle-Western American with an overlay of Bavarian?
B - Breakfast Item: Sausage Biscuit (self-constructed)
C - Chore you hate doing: Dishes
D - Dad's name: Robert Russell
E - Essential everyday item: Television Remote Control
F - Flavour ice cream: Butter Pecan
G - Gold or silver: Gold.
H - Hometown: Lauterbach, Bayern (Germany).
I - Insomnia: ... the drug-resistant kind
J - Job Title: former programmer, uh … teacher, uh, well … writer/builder/furniture salesman/soda jerk/oh to hell with it just name something and I'll let you know if I've done that.
K - Kids: Ten adopted
L - Living Arrangement: House where I reside with my sister
M - Mom's birthplace: Europe?
N - Number of significant others you've had: not going there
O - Overnight hospital stays: not worth enumerating.
P - Phobia: the traditional snake thing
Q - Queer: Well no, actually, though I've had the word applied to me in many contexts for many years.
R - Religious Affiliation: I am considering becoming a pastafarian
S - Siblings: One of each
T - Time I wake up: the simple answer is 4:00am
U - Unnatural hair colours I've had: flesh-tone, black, white.
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat: Okra.
W - Worst habit: punctual procrastination
X - X-rays I've had: too many to enumerate. I glow.
Y - Yummy: Chocolate, doritos, ice cream, burritos, pizza (canadian bacon, mushroom, onion, and black olive -thin crust)
Z - Zodiac sign: Western/Eastern Taurus/Tiger
