Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Partial

My browser is doing strange things: some bookmarks/links/pages won't load but instead take me to a Comcast page that wants me to first turn off all pop-up blockers, firewalls, antivirus software then download something. This has got to be a scam, some kind of virus or spyware. I've scanned everything with McAfee but the problem persists. I'm loathe to call Comcast because they'll say, run your anti-virus software. Did that. Oh, then, uh, pray?

I'll figure it out.

Update: Fixed it. Not a virus. Settings gone goofy.

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Glad to write a poem. Still enjoying the memoir but give me poetry over prose every day of the week.

Memoir is somewhere north of 13,000 words. I spent 12,000 of them on being 12 years old in a rehabilitation hospital in a strange city. I've skipped ahead to 22, starting graduate school in Carbondale, Illinois, and thankfully for readers, if there ever are any, it's a lot more funny and a lot less gruesome. But I love the gruesome. Ha!

8 comments:

cK said...

Ah, the Saluki in me begins to salivate at the idea people I once knew will be lampooned in this initial Carbondale chapter! Rodney, for example.

And you just might become the second person to make Faner Hall an architectural character in a book. (The only other one I know of is Rick Russo in STRAIGHT MAN.)

Keep at it. Though prose doesn't thrill you as much as poetry, you write it well, bub.
-cK

Paul said...

I can neither confirm nor deny that Rodney Jones may or may not have made an early appearance.

Faner Hall has gotta be in there.

Name: Matthew Guenette said...

How about conflating personalities. C. Wilkerson with, say, L. Buchsbaum. Rodney with one of those huge-testicled squirrels that swarmed campus in the spring.

As J. Bell says, I can feel the lobes humming. Looking forward to any and all of it.

Paul said...

I really don't think the fabric of reality could withstand said conflation, Matt. I can't even begin to describe what sort of person that would create.

Paul said...

As for the squirrels, I already have two huge testicles stories in the book already. It's probably best there not be a third.

Name: Matthew Guenette said...

Paul--

Curious, who else is reading manuscripts right now? BY "who else" I mean someone who might like me? Poets & Writers seems summer-thin and reading-fee heavy. Where else do you look?

Paul said...

I just visit everywhere I can think of to check. There's Four Way, Ausable, The Akron Prize.....ummm.....

Name: Matthew Guenette said...

I've already got one at Four Way (found out a few weeks ago it's in the finalist pile...again. Please, for the love of Pete!) I'll try Ausable 'cause it's free, which I dig. Akron, well, I don't know if they publish poets who write things like "huge-testicled squirrels." Thanks for the tips though.

--M