the world’s longest one word blog entry
Written by William F. DeVault on July 9, 2008 – 8:55 am -I was going to show solidarity today with an organization that has asked its members to pick a day and do a single-word blog post, but I got sidetracked. Maybe tomorrow.
I got a note today from an old friend, praising the tracks they had heard off of Evangelist, most notably Kitabu, and pre-supposing that the title cut to the CD was going to be an expression of anger or remorse.
Ha!
First off, I don’t have time for anger in my day…I get angry, when I must, for seconds at a time. You can blink and miss my anger (be thankful, it isn’t pretty). My view of the human emotional palette is that it contains three primary colours; love, rage and fear. Love has an outward vector, by its nature it is dynamic, as it generally means there must be some kind of flow outward to express it. Rage (or anger) and fear are different, you can bottle those up inside until they eat a hole in your intestines. I have enough forces acting against me in the universe, I try to keep those two (rage and fear) out of my life. They are disabling elements.
No, Evangelist is more an expression of how powerful love is and the aspects of love as they impact us. I speak of the futility of not loving or of loving for its own sake, but not with anger or fear. It’s an interesting cut.
I got slapped around a bit yesterday by the Mad Gypsy herself, Karla Frances Sasser, in the course of a wide-ranging discussion of our former involvement and why it didn’t hold. It was interesting to find out that she and I hold different definitions of what it was, and different perspectives on what went wrong. Then we discussed the empath’s role in finding disastrous liaisons. Empaths should not touch. Anything.
Tags: Evangelist, Karla Frances Sasser, kitabu, love
Posted in Evangelist, Journal, Karla Sasser, Thoughts about Life |
July 9th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I’ve been reading you for a long time. My girlfriend has a site on authorsden, which is where we’ve seen you before. You seem to talk to and only of yourself. So I think when it comes time for the interview you will be talking to and off yourself, and you will send yourself the questions. Why?
July 9th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Why may not be the right question. As it supposes your conjecture is accurate.
Maybe I am just dense, but I interpret your comment as suggesting that I will be generating the questions, playing interviewer and answering the questions. That would indeed be rather bizarre. Yes, on my blog, on my site, I write about things I am involved with (and, as someone who has been reading me “for a long time” and visits my blog several times a day you perhaps get that some people come here for that). It is tough to separate my projects from me as I live inside my projects. I could speak of myself in the third person, do a Bob Dole, but that would be creepy.
Barbara Holmes has been conducting author interviews for well over a decade, including her years as host and co-host of the Writers Life chats on AOL, where she interviewed such people as Tom Clancy and John Gilstrap, and myself a few times) and previous interviews with me have appeared in print in literary journals (okay, at least one, I don’t keep clippings, I find that perversely egocentric). If anyone is going to play her own game and ask her own questions and not let me off the hook, it is Barb.
If you have a question you want her to ask, please let her know. I don’t know what else I can do to guarantee a legitimate interview process. The interview in question is actually, as I understand, geared towards her return to running a writing blog, although I do plan to ask her if I can post portions of it, if not the entirety, on here (she may refuse, to keep it an exclusive).
July 9th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
right, right, right … because you are not the least bit “perversely egocentric.” Thanks for the in-depth answer. Appreciate it.
July 10th, 2008 at 3:42 am
question … who in their right mind goes to CAlifornia and then eats at Taco Bell?
July 10th, 2008 at 5:36 am
Is that a question for Barbara to use in her interview or do you want me to answer it right here and now? (Only asked because you had raised the issue of the interview earlier)
July 10th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
’twas rhetorical, duh!
July 10th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Then, my apology. Rhetorical questions, like sarcasm and patronization, are often lost on me as I tend to take words (and people) at face value. And to answer your rhetorical question (you are not the first person to ask me this, so some people actually seem curious about it), I stopped to use their restroom (PlaNet Cyber on Topanga seems to have a permanently out of order one) and feel bad using a restaurant’s facilities without buying something, otherwise I would’ve stuck to Baja Fresh, Chevy’s, the Stinking Rose and various hole in the wall Chinese restaurants out there that I adore.
July 11th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I’m confused. Isn’t this a blog about you and your poetry? Aren’t you supposed to write about yourself?
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July 11th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
You think I am not confused? I have spent the last 90 days of my life in a near total-state of adrenaline-hyped confusion.
Of course, how does that make it any different than the last half century?