A couple nights ago, while cleaning up old files and directories on my MacBook Pro, I ran across an odd bit of prose I apparently wrote at least five years ago (possibly more and the last time I opened it was five years ago). It was the first page and a half of a short story about a boy with an aversion to thinking written in third-person omniscient. While not necessarily brilliant, it did contain nuanced language and clever uses of simile and metaphor to convey larger ideas. The wording was very alive and bright. The only two problems I have with it are: 1) I don't remember writing it, and 2) I don't write nearly as eloquently these days. It's really kind of heartbreaking. I think that with each passing year my vocabulary erodes a little bit and I lose a little bit of my subtlety. So one thing is for sure, I'll never be mistaken for Harper Lee. I really should've cranked out a book when I was still in my teens when I still had a good command of nuanced language but lacked the jaded maturity required to fully develop characters. Now I'm jaded and my characters emerge on the page fully-formed, but blunt and stupid. And now I'm worried about going back to finish it to find out that the bright voice in the beginning is too dull to finish it. Enough pity party, on with the news.

Other notes:

Spider Manhunt.net
Far be it from me to infer that Stan Lee has ho'd (correct spelling?) himself out from time to time (AHEM! Who wants to be a superhero, I'm looking at YOU), but apparently back in the 70's he cranked out a special Planned Parenthood edition of the Amazing Spider Man. It's all broken down on this guy's LiveJournal page. Can you even imagine the shitstorm that would create today? It boggles the mind. Particularly this part:



Particularly the "About Homosexuality" section. Like, perhaps it should say something at the end like "however... if you are examining Spidey's crotch in every frame of this comic then, yeah... you probably are. Deal with it." Hey, I'm a realist. Excelsior!

Politics

BREAKING: Alberto Gonzales is still employed and Senator David Vitter hasn't been shame-fingered out of Washington. Thanks family values voters!
It's not like he got a blowjob from an intern... no, instead he wore diapers for a hooker. He paid for it, for crissakes! Between this and all the documentaries I've been watching lately (i.e. SiCKO, Jesus Camp, and the like) I'm nearing the "throw my hands up in the air, give up, become an ex-patriot and move to Canada, Europe, etc., and leave the U.S. to all the fanati-tards that have seem to have taken over the asylum" moment. Anyone with me? I took a year of French in Jr. High. And I think I'd blend in well because I'm already rude and love cheese. Who's with me? (j/k Me + U.S. are BFF)

MegaMeme
I posted a new page, check it out. It's every "random questions" meme I've seen on myspace for the last six months. I've been compiling them for a while. Every thing you've never wanted to know about me is on there.

That's all for now. More this weekend, kiddies. Huzzah.