I'm not angry anymore.

Short Fiction

After some consideration, I've decided to split my blog. The new site will be comprised of my putrid attempts at short fiction, that way, my life can't be confused with my writing, additionally, those of you who read this to see where I'm at won't have to be innundated by the trash that I try to compose creatively.

Anyway, let me know if there's anything that doesn't work and I'll fix it. Blogger has started putting up new features (I think they support the comments directly now) so I'll see what I can do with that there before I make any additional changes here.

OUT,
Erasmus

Tomorrow I'm going to post a short story that conceptually I've stewed on for some time. It'll be pretty green, but it's something that I've been meaning to put up since I've started this insane art of blogging. Issue being that I want to be held to my deadline here and elsewhere.

pieced out,
Erasmus

News..........focus

This morning on my standby headline news I saw a report on the ooh scary gmos. The report focused on how to avoid eating these demon products. The problem with the report wasn't the information given, but the assumption that a gmo is "bad". This is the kind of thing that makes me go wild mad. Instead of information I got a shopping guide - "buy certified organic." This is precisely the kind of reporting that all the folks concerned with liberal and conservative bias have issue with, though not with this kind of article. Furthurmore it's not only not informative, but not interesting. More pertinent to the topic would be how, if we as consumers deem that we don't want gmos (the real danger is not to the consumer in the short run (ie medical reasons) but danger to the food supply, loss of diversity in the organisms that produce food for us) then we as consumers have the power to show our choice by not buying products that contain those components. The writing assumes too much and the premise is biased; these people are supposed to be professionals(or maybe I'm asking too much from a cable news networt?).

Over,
Erasmus

Weekend notes:

Car Washed
Hair Cut
Oil Changed
Insides torn
Outsides tanned and bloodied(slightly)
Resolve resolved

Out,
Chromeeyes

I've been meaning to touch on this one for a while, but haven't had the words........

It's like this, vivid dreams have left, which is good see my livejounal piece from months ago. Sometimes it take a bit to get right.

.........that's not what I meant to write about for a while, lost the words again.

Search is on. Yo, I'm searching for new work, serious like as of today. Interest rates are disasterously high and I'm not sticking around this mortgage industry to see what the fallout comes to, I've been floundering quite long enough as it is. Anybody got a line in on something that I'm looking for please let me know. That's the hard and fast and long and short of it.

somehow calm, but quite disheveled,
Chromeeyes, aka erasmus

Support

Here's the digs, in these TCs there's some art going down this weekend: check it out http://art-a-whirl.org/ . Anyway, I've never been, but missed the opportunity due to identity issues last go around here and I'll be damned....well anyway, from what I've heard it's a good way to see what's out there, here. Maybe I'll check out a couple of the bands too. Anyway, if there's anyone in the tc who reads this and wants company, let me know, via email, mobile, or otherwise.

Check it at the door,
Chromeeyes

Yeah, so I just got the new This is not a Fugazi T-Shirt - CD1. I'm on track 3 and I just might need to take a ro-ad trip to take full advantage of the music selection. Y'alls should check it out and seriously, the price is right. Thanks, TINAFTS.

"My word is born like siamese triplettes with doctor, lawer, rocket scientist promise." - Aesop rock

Ghettoisms

The other night my room-mate, his girl and I were discussing the dynamics of slang. The word "ghettoer" came into play and there was disagreement in the ranks about the proper grammer to use for the root word ghetto. My call is that one should use the most atrocious varient possible when using slang. The "most ghetto" just doesn't have the ring that "ghettoest" does.

-Chromeeyes

Ban


I had a late meeting last night and I've got one tonight, so I took the start of the morning off and got into work at about 10am. I had a leisurely morning of coffee, headline news, and some dishes that wanted cleaning and drying. Anyway, first thing on the news was an ABC fluff report about how the republicans were ripping Kerry for his "frenchness" - he can speak nearly perfect French and he's got a cousin who's a mayor of some city there. This pisses me off: 1) that any republican would be so stupid as to try and exploit that & 2) that apparently Kerry is going to some measures to elude people to the connection (ABC said that he'd done a q&a there in french and the French network would not release the footage. So I turned ABC off and watched good old cnn headline news. Headline news had an interview with Don King the boxing promoter giving his loquatious speel about how the Republicans were his choice............my brain kinda turned off. How can there be so much bad election press, why does anyone care what Don King thinks and who's really going to be dissuaded to vote Kerry because he can speak French - he's let his views on the whole Iraque thing be well known from the start, what kind of rational conclusion can one possibly draw from the further knowledge that he speaks french.

-Erasmus

I saw the Tripplettes of Bellville last night and it was a cool fresh foray back into the world of the indie film. There's this Isralie(sp?) film coming out (can't rember the name) that looks pretty incredible. As was discussed last night with m, it's cool when you enter the independent film arena and then are tempted by the previews to see more of it.

-Chromeeyes

I wish I'd have thought about whipping the easter bunny first.

Paraphrased Paradox

Watched the final entry in the Matix trilogy last night; some.......some of the dialogue was striking here's a few bits that I was engaged by. Pardon the paraphrases, but I'm just going to write it the way I remember it.

On Gifts: I must do what I must do to honor them.

On language: It it just a word, but what matters is the connection that the word implies.

On Love: It is amazing how close the condition of love is to insanity.


-Chromeeyes

Catcrap

Anybody got solutions for a cat who thinks it's a good idea to unload on your bed first thing in the morning?

I've seen the sunlight this morning and it is glorious. Lately I've wanted to see the sunlight more often, I'm going to take a road trip soon and set my schedule by the sun; a schedule that entitles me to see it rise and set each day for a week. I've seen the sun set too many times and not seen it's emergence often enough. Somedaysoon.

-Chromeeyes

old song lyrics
(vicious, this isn't really a guessing game, but you'll guess for sure)

Don't let your heart be hardened
Don't let your love grow cold
Keep it broken..........

-Chromeeyes

tear

as per your request


"I think you need to map out the possible effects of drinking and talking to people. Also, the effects of not starting a magazine/bar." -a_ron

We'll see where this goes, Here's the first installment. I promise thought that I'll try to continue this one and the last one (mary part 1) because they've both got points to them that I'd like to try to impliment.


Reckless abandon, I said that once. I never really lived it though.

10:30 pm, song on the juke box "song #3" blur. Venue: the blue ingot lounge, kindofa swank cigar bar

Hey, Jessica. How're your summer plans going, the mediteranian and all?

Well......that's a good story, did my taxes and well, you remember when I work that stint at Venus Deli? Yeah, they didn't take taxes out and so I owe uncle sam, like, a g.

So, no go on the your hopes to bring the conquistador back to spain huh?

Nice......but yeah, not likely. So anyway, we're gonna hit Eden, you know, that tavern off 2nd and Park after we finish up here, you game?

Yeah, that'd be cool, but I'm waiting for Mit and then we're meeting up with some folks at the Grand, just a couple blocks from here, old friends I haven't seen or wanted to see for a while, you know the ones right? Anyway, they're not good much past 11, so if you're still there I'll totally see ya.

Oh, there the ones that you met through that girl Vanessa you cheated on Lindsey with right?

OK, first of all I didn't cheat on her, our relationship was in limbo, Van and I didn't even sleep together, besides it was Lindsey who took opportunity and then called crying wanting to get back together afterwards, probably good she never met Van........yeah, it's them.`

Why don't you just ditch out and hit Eden with us? I promise it'll be better than that........

Naw, I told Mit that we'd hang and he wants to see the band there and he's tighter with them anyway, so I'm kinda stuck with what I got. Hey Mit what's up man?

You guys have a good time I'm heading - seriously though, consider my offer.

Mit, you wanna stay here or just head over to the Grand, I didn't get a chance to get that martini I was so intent on earlier and this place is creeping me out, wha'ya say we make our way over.

Yeah, cool.



-Erasmus

Sun


Today, I'm feeling gritty and disheveled. A crazier weekend than most, I woke up this morning with a real suspicion that today I was going to be dragging it seriously. The start of the day was tough, but by about 10 after a caffine infusion and most importantly taking a break to sit outside and soak some sun I'm quite right. Yeah, so I had some hopes lost, concerns raised, met some fine folks, made some potentially interesting connections, chilled, confered and rocked out. That's about the whole of it for me. Let's see where this all goes and hope I can sleep on it, instead of not sleeping as things go.

Over and Out,
Erasmus aka Chromeeyes