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Yes, definitely for me.
What form of poetry do you prefer?
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Branflakes, the ninja lesbian milk getter.
The one called "brain".
Should today be more like tomorrow?
Where is my strength, compared to yours?
"See that star...the one shining brighter than all the others? I know the girl who hung it there."
I think I could've written "On the Road" better. *gotta make jack k turn in his grave sometime*
ever got a poem published somewhere besides this and the poetry.com? I cheated on this one... I was on the staff of the school newspaper back in high school...so I put some of my poems there. Hee hee...
As a matter of fact, I also had a piece put in my school paper. So why the angry face? The girl in charge of the poetry rewrote one or two lines before putting it in and I didn't know about it until I'm holding a copy of the paper in my hands. I never confronted her (probably should have) and never submitted another piece. I think I still have it at my parents' house.
Has that ever happened to you?
No. Wow, crazy, that was so WRONG of her. I had a bunch of poems published in my high school's paper my junior year. That's it, besides here.
Would you like to get published, and make money?
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Branflakes, the ninja lesbian milk getter.
The one called "brain".
Should today be more like tomorrow?
Where is my strength, compared to yours?
"See that star...the one shining brighter than all the others? I know the girl who hung it there."
Yeah, I'd like to publish kind of a classic literature novel and some books of poetry.
As for the changing of lines... I would state before it get printed that no lines is to change. IF they persist, snatch it back from them and give the old jersey salute.
What's your favorite thing to write about?
moments.... everyday imagery and the stream of consciousness connections it creates - the magic inherent in noticing. that kind of stuff.
<g> this game is fun.
oh, and eric (this is from so long ago I guess it doesn't still count) - I've read loads of MZB in years past, and I don't think she was channeling or ghostwritten - you can see the same trends of conspiracy and mythic interpretation in other works, such as The Fall of Atlantis (though it's not as good). I just think she's been riding her laurels a little since Mists and hasn't tried to use her talent.
which children's book most inspired the kind of "adult" you've become (or who you've become - no one should have to be an adult)?
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"carpe jugulum" - terry pratchett
"but truth is just like time, it catches up and it just keeps going."
-dar williams
"I will always be me; I will always be new."
-delmore schwartz
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"The Little Engine That Could" It made me to be persistent in going after what i want...
What new novel (not classics) is good enough to read and why?
I don't remember the last novel I read. Hmmm...I'll say PULP by Bukowski. It's a crime noir-ish book that's really funny and moves quickly.
How much writing do you have accumulated? Stacks of papers or notebooks? Boxes? File cabinets?
I've got a few writing pads of stuff.Alot of it cartoon or comic related,including outlines for comic book ideas,one in particular went so long for that sort of thing and prolly reads like a novel rather than an outline.Some old stuff(one a bunch of papers paperclipped from jr.high,a story about comic strip characters.)Some of the pads contain TV Guide listings parodies,which I laugh at when I read them.Easier to write funny jokes for me in that kind of format.I wrote a parody history of Saturday Night Live in the early '80's,unfinished and badly in need of editing-by me-but not really to publish.Just a creative exercize in retrospect.Actually,I have 20 times more drawing pads lying around than writing. Q: Which comic books do you read that actually COUNT as literature?I mean with complexity,themes,an extended narative,thoughtful,etc.For variety,answer can be SIP AND...?(mine is Cerebus,since Dave Sim writes it to be literature in comic form.)
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If Leesh were here, she'd probably cast her vote for Sandman, but I've never read it so I can't say for sure. She's got good taste though, so I suspect it's every bit as good as she says.
The stories in Optic Nerve represent some of the most literary moments I know of in comix. Unfortunately, that's both a good and bad thing. When the story is coherent and has a definite beginning, middle and end, it's amazing -- easily the equal of any short story by Salinger or Fitzgerald. But when it's a simple, moody character sketch, it's no better than the self-involved dreck to be found in the pages of the New Yorker or some pretentious academic literary journal that tries to pass off similarly lame prose as good storytelling.
As for other comix, the issues of Howard the Duck that were penned by Steve Gerber are amazing. I'm sure there's a stunning doctoral dissertation to be gleaned from those pages, provided there's a grad student out there with balls enough to take them seriously.
And although I've seen relatively little of Love & Rockets, what I have seen is good enough to stand alongside the great prose works of this century. Ditto for Jaime Hernandez's current effort, Penny Century.
What's the best written television program ever?
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