Jan. 31st, 2003

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As a child, who was your favorite superhero/heroine? Why?

Well, tastes change in childhood. :) I went from Danger Mouse to Mighty Mouse back to Danger Mouse again, then from there I went to Darkwing Duck. Danger Mouse had the intellect and wit that was just the coolest (and a very kissable nose) while Mighty Mouse just had the most awesome physique ever seen on a rodent. :) Darkwing Duck was a goober, and quite possibly the funniest 'superhero' of all time.

Now, of course, I'm all about the Beast and the X-Men. Go Hank McCoy!

What was the one thing you always wanted as a child but never got?

A hug. Without sounding whiny or depressive about it, my mother made all *kinds* of sacrifices for me to make sure I had what I needed and some of what I wanted, but she wasn't big on affection.

What's the furthest from home you've ever been?

In college I took a trip across the country with a fellow by the name of Spaceroo. We ended up staying in Grand Coulee, WA at a house his grandfather built with his bare hands. It ruled. His grandfather, apparently, had a thing for toilets.

Once, we were driving around and taking in the view of these *awesome* conifer forests, and we just kept...driving north. Finally, we made it all the way to Canada around 9 p.m., to this little tiny border town that had shut down about an hour ago. We drove aimlessly looking for *anything* that might have been open (there was A & W restaurant that would have been awesome) but after an hour of that we just went back home. When I go back out west, I'll *have* to see the Pacific Coast.

What's the one thing you've always wanted to learn but haven't yet?

Only *one* thing? Damn. I'd love to learn to speak Russian and French fluently, but at the top of the list would be 'how to learn to shut the fuck up and observe'.

What are your plans for the weekend?

I plan to shut the fuck up and observe. :) Me and a bunch of furs from NARFA are planning to start Hell Month at midnight tonight, where we all give up something important to us for a month, just to see who dies/kills someone else before February is out. Most of us has chosen alcohol, but that's too easy for me; I really don't drink too much, I'd rather eat. So, I decided to give up MUCKs, AIM and ICQ for the entire month of February.

Sorry if this is a bit sudden, and I hope no one gets pissed off about it (yeah, right). I still have e-mail and my good friend LiveJournal for the month, so if you want to talk and keep in touch, I can brush up on my letter-writing skills. :)

My e-mail address is lavenderfly@yahoo.com.au Don't ask about the .au, I don't know where it came from.

Beyond that, I've got Remnants #5 and I'll probably read that, along with finishing up The First Discourse of the Buddha. I plan on spending a bit of time with 2, writing as much as I possibly can, and drinking a lot while the poor teatotallers are forced to sit and watch. :)

Oh yes, and I have to finish writing last week's game summary, as well as getting the game together for this week.

So, while I won't be very talkative, perhaps, at least I'll be busy.
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I've written three poems this week, but the third needs some revising before I'm comfortable showing it. Anyway, here goes.

No Longer American

A quiet mind
pulled between the call of Out There
and the contentment of Elsewhere
looking to be filled by something
that doesn't ever need to be full.
What do you say
when there's too much to be spoken of?
There is too much to hold onto
not to let it flow through you,
like paper,
and simply enjoy every line for what it is.


Bookworm

There are sometimes
when you just can't read
fast enough.
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Hey there...

First I'm really quiet and now I can't shut up. Heh, go fig.

Every Friday I get paid, and every Friday I blow a significant chunk of my paycheck on books. Here's a sample of the typical haul I've got:

The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets
Pissing in the Snow
and Ozark Tales and Superstitions by Vance Randolph
The Art of Storytelling by Marsh Cassady
You Are Worthless by those Onion guys
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
Remnants #4 - 6 by K.A. Applegate

The Road Before Us I got out of sheer morbid fascination: how many books are you going to find about GAY BLACK POETS?!?! I read a little bit of it, though, and unfortunately it really doesn't offer much beyond the stereotypical poetry about AIDS and men that's been done wrong and black nationalist flag-waving stuff. Maybe that's *why* there aren't more books about gay black poets. :P

I'm pretty excited about Zen in the Art of Writing. I *love* Ray Bradbury (unfortunately, this year, he was relegated to being my second favorite author) and any 'how-to' manual on writing has got to be good. :) The rest of it, I think, is storyteller-prep stuff.

Just thought I'd share.

Oh: and by the by, does anyone happen to have a LiveJournal code they aren't using? I actually have an idea that I'll *use* now. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

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