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Re: Question of the Month: Foolish

EkEkEkEk07 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:36:48 -0000

a few years ago, i did a play and one of my props was a bicycle reflector that i wore on the back of my jacket. i misplaced it before before the final dress rehearsal. the director told me to find it and the entire cast and crew searched the theatre for my prop. finally, the director said, "forget it, we're already a half hour late. find it later." i went outside during intermission, dug in my pocket for a lighter and found my bike reflector.

:-/

Re: Question of the Month: Bookshelf

EkEkEkEk07 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:31:52 -0000

huh...it sorta does. blush. i assure you, he's trying to decide between the catcher in the rye and the shining. he's a very well read feline!

Re: Question of the Month: Bookshelf

EkEkEkEk07 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:08:10 -0000

i can't figure out how link a photo, but the picture is now on my myspace profile.

www.myspace.com/chinklechankle

Re: Question of the Month: Bookshelf

EkEkEkEk07 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:34:28 -0000

i am not very good at constructing bookshelves. once i stood a bookshelf up before nailing the back to the frame and it crumbled and broke. i recently found a 7' bookshelf in the dumpster. no assembly required!!! it just needed to be sanitized. my harry potter collection is on the top shelf. stephen king. salinger. play scripts. i'm not very organized! i put a treat on the lower shelf and showed it to my cat. he stood up and ate the treat. i snapped a photo and it looked like he was browsing for a good book. it's cute.

Re: Where Are They Now?

EkEkEkEk07 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:23:23 -0000

I'm an MFA student, so my personal essay is being submitted to my professor, aaah! thanks for the link.

Re: Where Are They Now?

EkEkEkEk07 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:06:38 -0000

thanks for the updates!

i am revising a personal essay and writing an annotation. good tiiimes!

Re: Question of the Month: Promise

EkEkEkEk07 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:01:24 -0000

"you show a lot of promise." where have i heard that statement before? on the dance floor? on my knees? on the stage? in the classroom? on the baseball field? in the bedroom? in the swimming pool? on the altar? in the kitchen? how many people have said it and were any of them right? did i really show promise or were they just trying to get me to gain confidence? i probably blushed and made an awkward squeak. i recently read an excerpt from a personal essay i'm writing and the feedback made me hyper and vulnerable. but no one used the word promise. "good job." "that was...wow. that part about the spit bubble...wow." "you read that very well!" "you didn't seem nervous at all!" "i can tell you have a background in theatre!" i promise to try and show as much promise as i possibly can in everything i do, but i will run away when anyone mentions the promise they see in me.

Re: Monthly Wrap: Annoying but Lovable

EkEkEkEk07 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:18:25 -0000

post scriptum: the picture of green-hand with the baby sea lion is really beautiful and moving. i want a baby sea lion, daddy!!

Re: Monthly Wrap: Annoying but Lovable

EkEkEkEk07 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:15:22 -0000

sneeze. i was watching THE ORPHANAGE with my best friend and she turned up the volume and said, "why did i turn up the volume, i have to read the screen." and then she sneezed really loud and jumped about ten feet into the air. she excused herself and proceeded to sniffle snot back into her nose. i waited about twenty seconds and then whispered, "god. bless. you!" she laughed and said, "it took you long enough, gosh." my response..."well, it was annoying. loud. i'm trying to listen to the subtitles." ha!

Re: Question of the Month: Annoying Habits

EkEkEkEk07 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:53:59 -0000

i just got to the part where the penguin falls. i'm guessing he didn't position it right on the table??? scary. and upsetting. i know there's an axe or a sledge hammer scene. someone hug me.

Re: Question of the Month: Annoying Habits

EkEkEkEk07 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:36:46 -0000

i'm reading stephen king's MISERY...in small doses b/c it's really messing with my head, but it's awesome. i've just recently started reading king and so far i've devoured THE SHINING, PET SEMETARY, EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL, and CARRIE. THE SHINING was the scariest reading experience of my life!! one night it was storming and i randomly put the JAWS score on my ipod, turned off the lights, grabbed a candle and read it. i'm not sure how my sheets aren't yellow!! TERRIFYING!!

Re: Question of the Month: Annoying Habits

EkEkEkEk07 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:22:20 -0000

1. nail biting.
2. i am a su do ku master and can sit on my lawn and play from sunrise to sunset. and i do not share my su do ku books.
3. i always find something to worry about...school, my cat, the rent, centipedes.
4. i am not satisfied unless i read between 75 and 150 pages of a book before bed.
5. mastu...er...uh. i drink at least twenty glasses of water a day.

Re: Question of the Month: Born

EkEkEkEk07 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:35:27 -0000

i was born at home. my father delivered me. a nurse neighbor assisted him. he ran into the bathroom and picked a dirty towel off the floor to wrap me in. my mother yelled, "get him a clean towel, dave!" he did. he gently woke my brother and introduced us. the ambulance came and took us to the hospital. i breathed polluted air and couldn't sleep with the other babes, so i had a tiny nursery all to myself and the nurses loved me. my mother did not plan on delivering at home, but i was impatient and ready for the world.

p.s. that baby is so cute!

Re: Question of the Month: A Peek into Your World

EkEkEkEk07 — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:34:01 -0000

there is a black shelf in my apartment that i mounted all by myself. i found the stud and hammered my nail. and my thumb. i stood back, crossed my arms, shook my head, and smiled. proud man, sore thumb. a sage colored fetish bowl sits on the first level of the shelf. a tiny pewter globe lives at the bottom of the bowl. there's a little sage colored ceramic turtle trying to climb out of the bowl. the bowl was for a friend, but i decided to keep it when she decided she couldn't come over to meet my cat-son. a laser light toy also finds rest in the bowl and when the cat wishes to play he jumps onto the arm of the couch and stares at the turtle bowl and whines. on the second platform there is a busted up looking conch shell that i dug out of the jamaican sand when i was a fourteen year old freshman. i was wrestling in the ocean with two boys and everything was rushing and rising and slamming and stinging and awakening. one of the boys pushed me and i landed on the shell and my hand pulled it free. the shell is thick and white and there are little holes all over it like acne dents. it's imperfect and ugly and something hideous and solitary probably lived in it and i love it even though i can't hear the ocean when i press it's mouth to my ear. i can hear those boys and my laughter and i can smell the salty innocence, excitement, crippled blind infant lust. i can feel their touch, the unintentional affection of it all. the final plank of the shelf is home to a candle that smells like my bestfriend. we fight a lot so the candle is rarely lit because who wants to smell someone they can’t stand? tucked behind the candle are two dvd rentals, SWEENEY TODD and CLOVERFIELD. they have not been watched and they will not be returned on time.

Re: Question of the Month: Books and Film

EkEkEkEk07 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:48:58 -0000

i am good. i applied to fairleigh dickinson's mfa in creative writing program last week. waiting sucks! how are you?

Re: Question of the Month: Books and Film

EkEkEkEk07 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:52:51 -0000

i'm doug! i wasn't logged in. i'm doug and my favorite book is the catcher in the rye. heheh!

Re: Oronte Churm (and a CONTEST)

EkEkEkEk07 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:11:13 -0000

Wand at the Ready

He had no molars, so he ordered fried eggs and slurped them off his spoon. I peeled back the cheese and sprinkled my tuna with sugar. His gummy gob ravaged my appetite.
“Take pictures of Daniel’s dick.”
“It’s not about his...wand, wanker! I’m seeing the play because I portrayed Alan Strang. And I love Potter.”
Will Dan get a boner on stage? Will I?
I nattered, “My seat is in the fourth row, center. Jealous?”

Re: Question of the Week: Rejection

EkEkEkEk07 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:43:05 -0000

Wait a second, I remember! I submitted a poem to my high school's literary magazine. O, HABIT OF MINE. I also read it at an open mic night. I was fifteen. I didn't get a letter, but the creative writing teacher said, "It just...we couldn't fit it in. It wasn't appropriate." I was crushed.

They published my haiku about a moth.

Re: Question of the Week: Rejection

EkEkEkEk07 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:30:31 -0000

No submissions.

I have received emails from play directors. . .

"Thank you for auditioning! We were unable to cast you because you don't look the part, but you'd be perfect as the TELEPHONE REPAIRMAN in our Spring production of BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Would you like to help paint sets or... "

Re: Oronte Churm (and a CONTEST)

EkEkEkEk07 — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:24:51 -0000

“Mr. Doug?” I turned to him with a smile, but his tears washed it away. “The scissors snipped me.” Blood dripped from a tiny gash between thumb and pointer. I cleaned the wound and strapped on a neon yellow bandage. I performed a magic trick on his hand. “Does it still hurt, little man?” The blood stopped dripping, but the tears continued falling. “No pain. I miss mom.” My magic trick doesn’t work on hearts.

Re: Oronte Churm (and a CONTEST)

EkEkEkEk07 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:06:17 -0000

I missed his final performance, but he still embraced me and wouldn’t let go. “Everyone liked me!” I wasn’t supposed to let go. “I’ll miss you!” He left us fifteen minutes later.

I dreamed he was in my shopping cart. He wanted everything from every shelf. “Don’t fall out. Don't fall...” His smile in that dream was the same smile from the hug. I still feel that hug sometimes. I’m not mad at you, God.

Re: Question of the Week: Six Words

EkEkEkEk07 — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:30:35 -0000

i'm still young. serenity may run off again ;)

ps- i'm reading AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FACE and loving it.

Re: Question of the Week: Six Words

EkEkEkEk07 — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:29:25 -0000

Accepted realities. Discovered beauty. Found serenity.

Re: Question of the Week: Clown

EkEkEkEk07 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:28:05 -0000

the grealy book sounds really interesting and moving. i think i'll pick it up tonight.

Re: Question of the Week: Clown

EkEkEkEk07 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:49:09 -0000

my friend had a clown at his ninth birthday party. the clown was mean, and i didn't like him because he didn't have a round nose. he just painted a red dot on the tip. he played simon says with us and made a balloon animal for danny, the birthday boy, but didn't bring enough for the rest of us. we walked him to his car and he lit a cigarette. i asked him if he'd show up at my party and he said i'm too old for clowns. he yelled at us for talking too much and said, "can you just let me get the hell out of here?"

i worked at a camp in florida and disney characters would come to breakfast once each week. one morning, they brought in the clowns instead of mickey and minnie. it was very moving to watch the kids play with the clowns. they were very good clowns with round noses that were red and squeeked.