I just found out the name of your best friend

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I nearly got into it with the cigar guys again today. They almost literally bray their stupid little hates for hours on end. As they were leaving (and leaving a mountain of ash, dead newspaper, and wrappers) one of them said "What, is this Friday?" and I said a bit too loudly "I DON'T KNOW, I HAVEN'T WORKED IN 20 YEARS EITHER!"

One of them emitted a noise about "journalistic integrity" and I laughed directly at him. He thought I was laughing with. I said: "Did you say what I think you said? That's hilarious!" "Well, it's just going by the WAY SIDE!". I told him to go read Mencken from the 20s about "journalistic integrity". What a tool.

And now, an Ann Landers Moment:

Confidential to Crampy in Carson: If you didn't drink so many alcoholic beverages every night, you probably would have less problems with insomnia, headaches, and mood swings.

Confidential to Moody in Marin: Your fluctuating "energy level" may be improved by changing the behavior pattern in which you start the day with 4 cups of coffee and don't eat until 9 pm, at which point you pasta-binge.

Confidential to Hoarse in Harrisburg: If you read more books and listened to less talk radio you'd make more sense and fewer people would yell at you.

hydrozoa is right. I'm a terrible writer. One thing about livejournal as a medium is that no consistency of voice is enforced, so I'm Holden Caulfield Jr. one day and an enraged Abe Lincoln the next. I should be more disciplined.

Got any gum?

Comments

Hush, you.

[redmaenad.livejournal.com]

Your voice is perfectly consistent; it's your emotional and psychological perspective that changes constantly in your entries. This fluctuation may be personally detrimental, but it works to great effect in your writing (and, hell, in literature in general--look at Ulysses, or the Waste Land.) The only time changing voice is a problem is when it's a result of stupidity or lack of control (like changing dialects mid-paragraph,) which is certainly not a problem with you.

Though it makes me feel great shame for my own writing, I always look forward to reading your entries. :)



P.S. I FEEL IT...I FEEL THE COSMOS!