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|10.20.05 @ 9:27AM|#
Here's a tip for young writers: At some point in your career, you're going to produce the worst thing you ever wrote, so you might as well get it out of the way early.
Aint it the truth! When I was 17, I contributed to American Spectator's "New Enemies List" and they actually published the damn thing. Back then, since I was hard-core righty, I thought I was hot shit on wheels. Today, I'm ashamed of the whole thing.
As for 'zines; Once my high school's wanna-be hippie (A real nice girl, though. I had a bit of a crush on her despite her poltics.) started to "debate" the racism with the school's wanna-be skinhead. At one point, she threatened to write an article about him in her favorite 'zine telling the world what a bigot he was.
For some reason, he wasn't impressed.
|10.20.05 @ 9:53AM|#
Akira MacKenzie,
I had a friend who tried to "debate" a bunch of skinheads at the Greyhound Bus Station in PDX. She nearly got her ass kicked.
|10.20.05 @ 10:12AM|#
Our debate with skinheads seemed to go off fairly well.
|10.20.05 @ 10:24AM|#
Like I said, he was a "wanna-be skinhead." He spoke highly of "white power" and bemoanded of what he thought was the "disenfranchisment of the white male from their society by minorities and feminists." However, he didn't even have the guts to shave his head.
|10.20.05 @ 10:42AM|#
...if you don't post to your blog for a month, it looks abandoned.
Hey! I've been busy with "Real Life" concerns!
|10.20.05 @ 11:20AM|#
Like posting here?
|10.20.05 @ 1:26PM|#
I dunno, I think The Man sounds kind of entertaining.
Jeff Taylor gets extra nerd points for contributing to Carolina Command & Commentary, an entire publication devoted to the board game Diplomacy.
I was a big Avalon Hill fan back in the day, but never tried this one. Was it good?
|10.20.05 @ 1:34PM|#
The story sounds like a companion piece with Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood. Your would be Messiah sounds like a Northern, urban missionary from The Church Without Christ, where the blind don�t see and the lame don�t walk and what�s dead stays that way.
|10.20.05 @ 2:52PM|#
Those "fanzine" days were the greatest! The one I miss most is "The Offense Newsletter." Mostly about music. I still have a copy in my closet.
Jesse Walker|10.21.05 @ 2:21PM|#
Elvis: If I were as good a writer as Flannery O'Connor (if only!), it might have been an OK story. Unfortunately, on top of all the other problems, it features some of the clunkiest prose I've ever committed to paper. It's only entertaining in a train-wreck way.