I was working on Leviathan Rusts earlier today, after watching The Big Lebowski and splitting a pot of coffee with a local DJ (Yes, it's always a wacky adventure!). So, amped up on caffeine and with a head full of surreal scenes and strange dialogue, I had one of those Eureka Moments. The entire plot became clear to me. The beginning, middle, and end all aligned before my eyes, and the characters' arcs all fell into place.
I had some basic ideas and a first chapter written, but now it's all pie
So we have a complaint of too little blogging. I agree we need more blogging.
I think also, we succumb to the depressing times in which we live and no one feels like writing when they are feeling down.
On the other hand, what better time to pen a light-hearted look at the misery that surrounds us?
Like General Custer we are circled by promises of our doom and the arrows of outrageous misfortune to be living in these most irrational new dark ages. If we circle the wagons against the enemy we w
Leviathan Rusts
Everyday Adventures of a Social Misanthropologist
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?I love you the way I love the efficient digestive system of the invasive zebra mussel."
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?Rent?s due. I need it in my hand by sunset, or I kick your ass to the curb, then back in here, then back out to the curb, again. Why??
?Because you?re just that hardcore."
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"A guy doesn?t get any?relief?for as long as you, and he ends up simultaneously mounting and head-butting a Coke machine out of sheer frustration. It'
It's been almost two months since I started my new bright and shiny job in San Francisco...you know the one I'm talking about. The job that was suppose to give me more time to myself, time I could use to write.
Well that dream was held up and then smashed to pieces right before my very eyes. I won't make NaNo this year, matter of fact I failed miserably. Oh don't you worry you crazy kids, I'll punish myself accordingly later.
I had such high hopes and plans, but life keeps fucking me up latel
If you've heard the expression 'dipping your pen in the company ink' then you're a better chap (or chapess) than me. Though now I know what it means. Thanks, Jason!
I'm hallucinating and proud - which is, according to the doctor and over the phone, because I have flu (I opened the window and influenza). He said that the best thing for flu is to take two paracetamol every four hours and go to bed. 'Anti Virals?' murmur I, 'Not very efficacious' he says, 'though if you want ...?' I do want. I re
Have you ever noticed the seeming preoccupation French movies have with sex and food? Every time a new French movie comes into the video store, we get heaps of questions about if there is food in it? You'll notice no one asks, "Is there sex in it?" Well it's French so of course there is sex in it, seems to be taken for granted. But it's the movies with sex and food that seem to do the best business.
Now I don't mean to single out the French, but it does seem their movies are the most likely to
Have you ever heard the expression dipping your pen in the company ink? If you have, then you know that?s what they call it when you sleep with someone you work with. And since most of you know about my little fling with Mark, my semi-straight co-worker who I had a year long crazy affair with, you also know I?ve been to that movie already and by the end of it all I ended up firing him for stealing from my hip up-scale restaurant.
You would think I had already learned my fucking lesson.
And I
So a few days ago, I was on my way home from my hip up-scale restaurant, and I get this frantic call from my friend Daniel. Apparently he was trashed out of his mind and had reached the stage of hungry and didn?t want to drive anywhere. So after a few minutes of his begging and pleading, I agreed to stop at the Taco Bell drive-thru and pick him up some munchies.
Yeah I know, I?m cool like this.
Since he didn?t give me a wish list, I figured I would get him a few different things and let him
So something happened to me over the last weekend that I've been debating on whether or not I would share with those of you that read this Blog. And it's not because I think the events that transpired that lonely Friday night is of a personal nature and I'm unwilling to share it here to those that read my Blog on the daily.
Because I think you know that I've been nothing but brutally honest in these entries over the last few years. Whether I'm writing about my past drug addictions, my straigh
I usually post my experiences with having a foster son here, but tonight I'd like to say what happened to me over the last few days. As most of you know, I was in Philadelphia for a conference for the past week. When I returned, I tried to boot up my computer. NOTHING happened. I took it to my friendly computer geek and he ran a diagnostic and I found out that my hard drive was toast and also that the chip set was bad, New computer, right?
New computer now, but all of my data was lost, l
I'm a MEH...
Traditional
MEH Traits
grouchy and surly
enthusiastically apathetic
mean and a little evil
was drunk and disorderly, now clean & sober without an excuse
would rather be fishing
On the dark side....
makes postal workers look sane and stable
asks hookers for refunds on bad sex
fantasizes about beating people to death with a claw hammer
cheered when shouting tv huckster and coke head Billy Mayes died like a dog
screws televangelists, publishes videos o
Hey y'all,
I am back...My summer was so much fun as hell. I worked over the summer, as a sports camp counselor at the day camp. Adorable kids I've coached! :) You know, I really do love children...I can't wait one day that I will have kids (hopefully with Tara, lol). I spend a lot of times with Tara, and I love her so much that I couldn't imagine what I would do without her (I know that I've said this a lot of times). I know that this is too early to say, but she's the girl, and I believe,
As most of you know, David and I received out "Treatment Foster Care Parent" license from the State of New Mexico over a month ago. "Treatment" means that these kids have issues. Four weeks ago, an 11 year boy named Dustin was placed in our home. I wanted to record my experience as we raised Dustin in a journal somehow, so I created a blog on a different site, but I also wanted to keep my friends here at AD up to date with what I was going through. I was just going to link my blog from the o
Ah Winter!
Yes I have another bout of flu like symptoms. :cough, cough:
Oh I'm sorry did I spray my nose juice all over you when I sneezed? Let me wipe it off you with this used tissue.
Really, I am so sick of this bug.
Another thing I am sick of is the new video rental program we had to buy for the shop. It is preferable to the others we tried, but we still have had to work out what all these extra things are, that it does. Like, tell us how much tax we need to pay and what the cash should
What can you do when you lose your data on your computer? Here is an answer to such a disaster which embarrassingly, befell me recently.
I was setting up a new computer for my video store when I was overtaken by frustration, fatigue and fear that I would never finish the task.
So to liven things up, what other excuse could I possibly have, I went to my own computer opened the windows disk manager and deleted what I thought was a left over partition from when I had the Acronis backup softwa
No one told me that when, over the course of 23 years, you accumulate roughly eight metric assloads of books, you eventually have to MOVE eight metric assloads of books. To a third floor apartment. With no elevator.
Sweet Fancy Moses, this is gonna take forever.
Yes, those are all books.
But on the plus side...I've got a lot of books.
Also, I've got a new place that's fairly close to my new job. Best thing about the new place? I can finally get broadband access. Up until now, I've b
Aug. 9, 1942
The United States and her Allies are on their heels in the Pacific. Japan looks invincible. From December until June, Japanese forces had over run Wake, Guam, the Philippines, Java, Malaysia, the Caroline Islands, the Marshall Islands,
Everything had been going Japan's way up until they were turned back at the Battle of the Coral Sea and were defeated soundly at Midway on Jun 4th.
The United States and her allies Great Britain and Australia decided on a time and place to launch
I got a job. Just in time, too, with less than two weeks before school starts.
I don't want to give too many details in a public post like this, because I wouldn't want to be recognized (hit me up on AIM or YIM if you're that curious about the details).
Here's what I can tell you:
I'm a reading teacher for a mix of elementary and middle school students (that's right - my designation is "EleMiddle." Heh.)
It's an inner-city school with 99% of the population below the poverty line. Many of the
How can I say this without being offensive?
If gay people went to gay school, I would ride the gay short bus.
I must be the most incompetent gay man in North America.
I would rather hunt than shop.
When I'm in a new city, I check out the hardware stores to see if they have magical kung-fu tools that I've never seen before.
My wardrobe has more in common with Walmart and Target than Pierre Cardin or Brooks Brothers.
I drive a truck with a big steel toolbox that has everything in it that I w
So I have been laid up with the flu. Was it Swine Flu? Well it wasn't all that pleasant. I still have a cough, but if it was the swine flu I least had something in common with Harry Potter actor, Rupert Grint. He seems to have got on top of it and I seem to have done the same, though I like the idea that either he or I got on top.
As I say I still have a cough, but mainly my voice is husky; husky as in hoarse, not as in horse which if I got on top of, might mean I was in the play, Equus, whic
As many of you who follow my posts...there are some of you who do follow my posts?
Anyway as you might know, I am very interested in creativity and the boundaries that copyright imposes on artists.
I have posted some of these links before but I wanted to bring them together as resource, because I think it is extremely relevant and important.
These links centre around the work of Professor Lawrence Lessig and his books on freedom of expression in creativity. See his books at this site.
Additi
I was pleased to land the contract: 30 stores from July to mid-August. As far as contracts go it was modest but for a solo operator like me it was just right.
I got the package in the last week of June that covered the stores and the scope of work. I was expected to come up with a schedule. The contract was administered by a nation-wide systems integrator that I had worked with from time to time. They would be skimpy on the hours but as long as I was good about documenting the expenses, things
Having moved to a place without a phone line it took an age and a half to get that sorted, and a deal longer to get ADSL up and running. Now, I'm back online and it feels ... mmmmmmmm yummy scrumptious!
We're a five minute walk from the beach. Sadly it isn't sand, but it does have water which is quite an important pre-requisite for a beach. The cats like it, too. A boon, 'cause having sad cats ain't where it's at, at all. AND the garden is small which make mowing the lawn a doddle. I like doddl
