thursday
okay, i havent been posting
been clearing my decks with student manuscripts & conferences - getting them off my plate
been working those last 50 pages, the
epitome of what i call narrative mud
who got time for blogging
but this i couldnt resist: rnc fundraising document where they acknowledge that all they got to sell is
'fear of socialism',
couple of the powerpoint slides here
oneof obama as the joker - teaparty stuff - pelosi as cruella deville and reid as scooby do
not only are they venal they juvenile
one slide they pretty much dis their supporters as fools, i love it
wish somebody had taped that meeting for youtube, thats what i wish
its not like this a big surprise - the surprise that they stupid enuf to leave one in a hotelroom
some enterprising sort got it to the right people
it was politico got the scoop on this
ima do my little part in keeping the spotlight on it
distract them off reconciliation
thats gon be a battle yall
speaking of battles: i have made it through bhm, 3 more performances
and im done, hands for haiti relief, poetryspot, guestfaculty: religious storytelling
did a presentation for micere mugo the other day that i really enjoyed, she just fought off a bad case of cancer and a local panafrican group gave a celebration for her, it was some kind of wonderful
ive ordered david shields reality hunger, sounds like the kind of borderwork issues id like to think about
maybe work into my novel, read a novel recently thats got me playing metagames in rest, where she
work chars from previous novels in context of the folk she drew them from in real life, that intrigued me
all it require is pushing my storyteller voice into claiming novels too which just give me that much more room
to play
thats what i love, metanarrative games, playing tricks on people
dont want folk to ever actually figure this novel out, i want it to delite folk
forever and ever
dont bother reading that the german 'novelist' whose name escape me, claim plagiarism as aesthetic
i steal all the time but there is an art to it, that old amatuers borrow, professionals steal (wish i
could claim that one) - you have to digest it, make it yours - undigested stealing is just stealing
its a felony - always has been, always will, well i cant legitimately say always but it will for me
before i crawl back into my hole, let me say a few words to folk didnt make the mfa app cut,
i know some of you read this blog and id like to say we had to choose 6 out of 500 apps,
dont feel rained upon, we had to pass on folks we liked, folks who
were better writers than we are, but 6 is 6 is 6 - at that point it gets damn near arbitrary
difficult to say no to the literary dreams of folk trying to get that shot at the life, i feel you
its like some winnowing, the process kinda brutal every step of the way
i want you to keep the faith, i want you to hang in there, show us what fools
we were not to give you a shot, cause you in it to win it, you gon make
this happen - i hope you got in somewhere else but if you didnt dont let it throw you
i love the literary life, its worth any amount of struggle and tribulation
you just hang in there, you keep growing, and you just dont take no no,
only thing fatal is giving up
(i know, tad corny but i like that line)
im out
all my love
rdoc
Having spent a lot of time in the corporate world, as well as the word "debottlenecking", the phrase "death by powerpoint" also keeps bouncing around in my brain, not in relation to Rootwork, though, (ie present company excluded!).
masterymistery at cosmic rapture
Posted by: mastery mistery | March 06, 2010 at 09:09 PM