Ladies and Gentlemen, Flannery O’Connor:
“Everywhere I go, I’m asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.”
“There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
Indeed!
My one year anniversary at Type A Multimedia Network is today. Not bad — 3.3 years at closerlook, 9 months unemployed and 1 year at Type A. Travel backwards through that and you’ll find me a couple months out of graduation, a scared and hopeless little boy. Exciting to see just how far we’ve come….because now I am a scared and hopeless little man…. Here’s to it!
“If you hang out at a barbershop all the time, sooner or later you’re going to get a haircut.”
Heard on NPR in this story about a drug dealer gone clean coming back to live in the same spot where he used to deal…. Of course you’re going to go back to your old ways. You can’t help it….
Thought it was just a brilliant way of putting it. Nifty doodle.
So the weekend well-spent. Wakeboarding and playing and eating and drinking. Nothing crazier than Blowout and I have the pictures to prove it.
Learned some things this weekend, but I forgot what they were. Didn’t really have a choice — it was either to remember the things I learned or recover from my injuries and I went with the latter. What’cha gonna do?
And now I’m back here — and it seems this time the whole idea of vacation might have worked. I’m so chill, I’m almost frozen. If I was any more relaxed, I’d slip into a coma.
We’ll see how long that lasts.
Heh. That comes out funnier that it should have.
Apparently, we’re all gonna
I amaze myself sometimes — the ability to do this personal encryption. A simple phrase with double meaning and blammo, dripping with impact….for me….and only….me. That’s useful.
Seriously: if you want someone to picture you naked, just tell them you’re going to take a shower, you just took a shower, or some story about something that happened to you at some point while in the shower.
They just won’t be able to help it. And now you’ve got them thinking.
(Oh lord, I’m just kidding.)
I know every diacritical mark there is, buster. Don’t get me started cuz I’ll accent your ass to death. I’ll send you to an early grà ve. I will ÷ and conquer! I ….oh forget it.
That grave joke is hysterical though and you don’t even get it because you don’t know as much about diacritical marks as I do! Hah!
and then you remember the depression
that sets in when you remember how it was
i don’t want anything that you think i want
and it’s all because i think too much
every stain every mark that i’ve made
every trail i’ve left behind me
washed away but not forgotten