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I've decided.

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:41:00 GMT

I've left the internet for the reasons mentioned in my personal blog entry of Oct 21. I feel I need to let people know who might expect an answer from me if they happen to send an email to me. I will not be checking my email for at least 30 days..., maybe longer. I will only be online for the most vital things such as banking.

Until we meet again...

there's a thought in my mind and there's nothing not far behind there's a road there's a path there's a freeway and there's a map there are flies and blue skies and the just and the unjust all walk side by side there's a fog in my mind and there's nothing not far behind there is wrong there is right there is peace and there's a fight there is life there is death and the difference between either one is one single breath there are flies and blue skies and the just and the unjust all walk side by side.

Goodbye to the internet...soon

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:30:38 GMT

Being on the internet is stealing my most valuable time, which is between bus routes. When I come to this diner in Prosper, I'm here until noon or later most of the time and NEVER work on the book (except when I did that video) because of the WIFI connection - a curse and a blessing ...mostly a curse.

I feel the internet pull me back to complete something I've started, to check my emails, to update my blog (and check for comments) and my facebook. The connections and complications can be endless. I have to choke off the connection and let the pull die so I don't feel like a slave.

Buying a laptop and lugging it around to "play" on the internet was not the reason I bought it. To do what I want/need to do I need at least 4 solid hours a day of sitting in front of the computer focused intensely on thinking/writing/creating ...ideally I need 8 hours. Even with all that effort in mining, sifting and shoveling it is mere gold dust that comes up worth capturing.

I've remained underemployed, and have likely damaged my resume, because I wanted to write an awesome book. I'm being wasteful. It is wrong for me to be this way. Many of my very good friends have been keeping up with me and some have even read Part I (even though the June draft was riddled with errors, now fixed by the master, Ken Johnson, a real editor). I'm doing an injustice to them, those who support me, and myself, if I don't do what I'm supposed to be doing.

So, I'm taking a deep breath to decide on what will be the day of my self-intervention (any of you are welcome to come jerk the internet connection out of my house too). Should it be 15 or 30 days. 6 months??? Details will be placed on my personal blog.

AND ..instead of "gearing up to write" by starting off checking my email, I've finally begun an indepth study of the book of Romans to start off my creative time. It's Chuck Swindoll's stuff. It's perfect for me right now.

Without further adieu...its on to Chapter 22.

Note to self.

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:35:47 GMT

It's true writing is an extension of my creative thoughts, and therefore I'm always working; but I'm not getting paid to think creative thoughts...yet.

Halloween and Costume parties

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:34:20 GMT

Halloween is my least favorite celebration. To this day, I'm not comfortable with hanging fake skeletons in my tree or RIP on fake gravestones in the flower bed and thinking it's really neato. I don't see much funny about celebrating horror. I guess this is why I hate horror movies. It really doesn't scare me, so it's extremely silly in my view. I'd rather egg a house. Mischief with meaning, true significance, I say.

It's also an excuse for costume parties. These are hardly things I can put up with either. I dread them. It's the silliness. If I'm forced by the company/party-thrower etc. to dress up, it's painful. I usually avoid them, and it doesn't help when people slap me on the back and say, "Oh come on you stick in the mud." I usually say I'll come as a [insert company] employee. To be encourage to join the collective makes me want to hang them from a tree. I tell them to start shopping for a gravestone.

I'm truly in awe of people who get excited about this crap. If I have to go to one this year. I'm going to wear two masks. The one on top is Barrack Obama's face and the one under that is Che Guevara's.

RIP

Video Of Anita Dunn: Mao Tse Tung "Favorite Philosopher"

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:18:29 GMT

Friday, October 16, 2009

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:17:47 GMT

A movie preview of my book

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:10:02 GMT

PAUSE THE MUSIC AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE

I use actors, actresses, monsters, various movies scenes and paintings as "stand-ins" for the characters in my book. I listen to original movie soundtracks as I write. Think about when you watch a movie preview. It's succinct, borken down into the simplest phrases. If you do this, it will help with the meaning and plot of your book. Basically, what's written on the back of a book is the "movie preview". Books I've read advise writers to come up with a back of the "preview". I've taken it a step further and made a movie preview for Part Two of my book. It helps tremendously to see and hear the grandeur of your visionary epic courtesy of Hans Zimmer.

There are seven characters here represented by a painting of Nero, Charelton Heston, Linda Harrison (Planet of the Apes 1969), Mel Gibson, painting of the evil leader and a troll. The voice over would be the "movie guy" voice. Yeah, I know it's silly but this what writers do.

Out of Touch

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:26:09 GMT

No, I'm not talking about 'liberal' elites. I was out of touch completely today.

I left my cellphone at home.

I had my laptop and I worked on my book, but the internet connection was not working at the library.

No phone, no blog, no Facebook, no email.

The result was awesome. I finished Chapter 20 and began 21 with a bang!

I'm very excited about Part 2 of the book. My skills have improved and keep improving. It's showing.

Statist Authoritarians In Their Relaxed Moments: The REAL DEAL

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:50:36 GMT

Ben Franklin vs Karl Marx: Taxes

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:01:04 GMT