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Thursday, August 31st, 2006
2:26 pm	End of Summer... Stuff I've Been Reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Blood Oranges by John Hawkes How The Left Lost Teen Spirit by Danny Goldberg Three Years from Thirty by Mike O'Malley Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and other stories by Anna Deveare Smith (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
12:01 pm	On The Road Again... This summer I have spent over 73 hours driving all about the middle-west (and parts of the south), racking up 4,429 miles in the process. Here's an image to better illustrate where I traversed in my sturdy little volvo: http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=50023887&imageID=1050610153&MyToken=50b98b34-5fb0-4bcb-a8ae-48ada20a8a67 And now, about 10 days of relaxation before school begins anew. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 13th, 2006
6:49 pm	Fin... Here is the revised draft of my latest story ( Now with fewer grammatical faux-pas: )</font> Still don't have a title...that'll come later. (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 6th, 2006
3:52 pm	Chain Lit Post... ( Enter at your own risk ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 4th, 2006
8:18 pm	A bit belatedly... Stuff I've Been Reading: July 2006 The Proud Highway: Letters from a Desperate Southern Gentleman (1955-67) by Hunter S. Thompson The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 30th, 2006
3:06 pm	Another one in the books... I just finished my initial draft of this still untitled story. Here it is: ( The final fifth )</font> Much editing awaits. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
10:09 pm	14 days later... Here's installment number four: ( Numero Cuatro )</font> Unedited first draft and all that jazz... (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
4:18 pm	Steak & Shake Lit... And now for the third installment: ( Gotta Love It )</font> Once again, unedited first draft. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 7th, 2006
4:06 pm	Where the???What in the??? If you read this and think it came out of fucking nowhere, then I think I've done enough for one day: ( Part-Deux )</font> Once again, totally unedited first draft stuff. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
4:31 pm	Liberation... Well, I have finally invoked the Dionysian muse and have written like banshee from Hades all bloody afternoon. Here is the result, in an easily digestible dose. The drug use in this will get frightening, but currently you can enjoy inner monologues about cereal: ( Untitled Story )</font> Warning: this is highly un-edited (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 3rd, 2006
4:17 pm	What am I doing, where am I going??? I have come to the stark realization that I'm in the red as far as life is concerned. I seem to have a knack for failing at every turn in this twisted modernity of my generation. I misjudge the intentions of others, come up begging in any attempt at self-expression and art, not to mention my penchant for waiting...waiting for life to come to me and sitting idly by as it rushes past by isolated booth towards others more trying and persistent. At times I think I belong to a different age, as if I would've been better off growing up in some goddamned perverse sitcom version of the 50's. I'm like Richie Cunnigham only I do drugs and drink and don't own a letterman's jacket. On second thought, I'm more of a Ralph-Malph or a Potsy in this sick game. I set out to write this summer but have merely regressed into a pattern of lethargy, apathy, and escapism. I don't want to have to confront the life that greets me every morning, even though it is of my making. I fucked up royally and have resigned myself to permanent disillusionment. I'm an anomoly in this 21st century world of bacchanalia and disingenuousness. There is no help for my kind other than finding someone else of a similar constitution, which grows more and more remote by the second. The saying goes that people don't want their innocence back so much as they desire the process of losing it. By that token, J.D. Salinger and John Knowles can take their fucking innocence and run it off a cliff or a tree branch because my fall hurt and was sans buildup or pleasure. I realize I'm pessimmistically rambling right about now, but catharsis is called for and this might go a little while towards that aim. With that being said, I'm going to escape for a little bit and hope not to see the world again ere the first cock crow. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
10:14 pm	There goes another month... Stuff I've Been Reading Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 24th, 2006
10:16 pm	Do You Have a Joint???It'd Be Better If You Did.. Today I woke up at 11:00 A.M. to watch the match between Germany and Sweden (For the record, the forward pair of Klose and Bodolski along with Ballack in the middle, might be good enough to get Germany to the finals. Germany beat Sweden 2-0.) After I had eaten a bowl of Lucky Charms, made myself some coffee, I watched the game 'til 1:00 and then took a shower, where I listened to a mixtape that I had made for Smeemo, featuring Rufus Wainwright, Blind Melon, Ted Leo & The Rx, and Badly Drawn Boy. I then drove down into town, smoking a Menthol Camel Light on the way there. When I reached Front Street I first went into Horizon Books, where I contemplated buying Please Kill Me!" by Leg McNeil, but ended up getting Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. I then went to a head shop where I purcashed 3 dollars-worth of Frankencense scented Incense and bought my very first piece. She's a glass pipe that's about 6 inches long with a dome-like knob on the end and a shape that resembles a really tall and slender genie's bottle or the insides of a Grandfather Clock. I named her Janis because the pyschadelic patterns of the glass remind me of the album cover of Janis Joplin's Pearl. I then went to get a cup of coffee at a local cafe where I finished reading The Merchant of Venice. I wanted to have a cigarette with my coffee, but I left my lighter in my car. Later on, I got up and asked a woman who was smoking if I could have a light. She said sure, but only had a book of matches on her. While attempting to light the cigarette with my 4th match, I let the lit match get too close to the others and the entire matchbook went up in flames almost singing my hand in the process. I ended up lighting my cigarette on her ash, with the added statement that "I hope I don't get any lipstick on the end." This statement made no sense to me because her lips were on her filter and to get any lipstick on my cigarette she would have to swallow hers whole. This kind of shit happens to me all the time. Then I bought a blue sweater-shirt form a vintage clothing shop for $13, got a new tank of gas, and went home. After a dinner of cherries and potato wedges I worked out and my Dad suggested we get a movie, so went out and rented The Family Stone. I had a some more coffee and smoked another camel before sitting down to the movie. The Family Stone was very enjoyable and well worth the purchase. I took a test-drive with Janis while sitting on the deck starring at Lake Michigan after the movie was over. And now I'm doing this. Current Music: Rilo Kiley - A Man/Me/Jim (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 19th, 2006
1:02 pm	Finally got the rejection letter from The Louisville Review after nine months and one pseudo-accpetance letter. Grrreeeaatttt. (Comment on this)
Saturday, June 10th, 2006
5:37 pm	Hey Y'all, Watch This... Here's my latest little story, which is currently untitled and UNEDITED...I never edit things til way after they're finished and I haven't even re-read this story yet. Hope it don't blow... ( A Tale of Teenage Drinking )</font> (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
12:50 am	Summerbaby... Stuff I've Been Reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis No Exit and The Flies by Jean-Paul Sartre Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel (Comment on this)
Monday, May 22nd, 2006
1:21 am	Ashtrays filling up with smoke... This summer I planned to write something grander and more ambitious than anything I had attempted before. What with the countless hours of free time at my disposal, pumping out the next great novel should be nothing more than typing a few thousand words on a keyboard. However, after 17 days I've put exactly zero words to paper, consumed by thoughts and ideas that stubbornly refuse to congeal effortlessly as I had hoped they would. I couldn't even decide on the proper medium for my piece. I flip-flopped between novel, short story, memoir, and play on nearly a daily basis. At one point I had even decided to rework an ancient Greek tragedy before thinking better of it. I have since come to the conclusion that the more I fret over the supposed profundity of what I'm writing, the more I'll simply fret. So, I'm just going to set out to write with no length or definite destination; hopefully the framework will do. But, until I have something concrete, I figured I'd post a lil' paper I wrote for my bastard of a Rhetoric professor. Somehow I have the feeling she didn't like it, but y'all might: ( Baseball and Cold Showers )</font> (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 5th, 2006
10:45 am	Well, this is a pleasent surprise... "The Louisville Review Fleur-de-lis-Press Spalding University Dear Writer, Your Submission made it through our initial reading cycle and has been forwarded to our Guest Faculty Editor for final review. Please note that decisions for the upcoming review will be made by June 30th and that you should receive a response from us concerning the status of your submission shortly thereafter. Sincerely, Karen Mann Managing Editior" (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
4:15 pm	No Chance of Survival... This is my exam schedule for this Thursday, May 5th: 8:30-10:20 - Ethics as Intro to Philosophy 10:30-12:20 - Retard Math 1:00-2:50 - Victorian Brit Travel Lit (why the fuck did I take such an obscure, specialized course in a discipline, history, I have little interest in?) This means I have 5 hours and 30 minutes-worth of exam in time period of 6 hours and 30 minutes. Not only that, but I don't think I've seen 8:30 in the morning in about 3 months (that time I took adderol and watched MTV until 9 in the morning not withstanding). I REALLY AND TRULY AM ROYALLY FUCKED! At least school will be over at 2:51... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, May 1st, 2006
12:16 am	Four Days 'Til Freedom... Stuff I've Been Reading Valencia by Michelle Tea Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (10 Comments |Comment on this)