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Re: Question of the Month: Fire

troutbum70 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:19:23 -0000

I love fire. I am fascinated. I could sit by a campfire everynight for the rest of my life and always fall into a hypnotic state. The way the flames jump and dart and dance across the logs. The way the wood crackles and pops and how the logs move as the ones beneath turn to ember then ash. The way the smoke curls its way to the heavens. I love fire...

Re: Question of the Month: Hero

troutbum70 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:19:16 -0000

Tank man. That guy represents what a hero is suppossed to be, the guy that lives his life and then one day he has had enough and walks out in front of the tanks and says no more, you may kill me but you will no longer oppress me. I hope I would be that brave. I don't think I am.

Re: Monthly Wrap: Sore Throat

troutbum70 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:27:11 -0000

Lazy vowels. Yep, me too. My accent is not Virginia southern but more deep south with a western flavor. I love accents, they set us apart, give us a window into someone's past and culture. Hearing a familier accent can trigger memories of the past that you may have never thought of again. My accent is part of my character or should I say persona. I don't think I would be the same person without it.

Re: Question of the Month: Voice

troutbum70 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:15:58 -0000

I have a very southern accent that I would never try to hide. I do say ain't and I'm not giving it up. I tend to speak over people but I'm working on that. My accent has served me well.

Re: Monthly Wrap: Time for Waltzing

troutbum70 — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:15:33 -0000

I understand all those feelings. I'm not a negative person in general and very confident in general and here is the but. When I write, I like what I write, I build momentum and then the self doubt grads me. I am brutal and it is hard to return to it afterwards. I have good stories a lot of stories, some true, some laced with truth and others that have attached themselves to me over the years. I know I could tell a story if I would just get out of the way.

I found out Wednesday that an old friend's daughter had a brain tumor and when they removed it they found that it had spread to her spine and she would be on chemo for a year. This drains me but I also feel blessed that my kids are healthy.

Love women in boots. I had a crush on a girl in school who wore red Justin roper boots. She was hot and aloof and the boots added a bit of swagger. Twenty years later I went out with her in LA. Crazy...

Re: Monthly Wrap: Kids in Bookstores

troutbum70 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:41:51 -0000

I do everything as local as possible. Indie bookstore, farmers market, no chain restaurants. I am forced at times to go to wal mart but try my best to find it somewhere else first. we have to all pull together to make a better world and putting our money into the pockets of a local family beats giving it to some corporate giant whos only intrest in your community is the money they can make off of your efforts. Ranting a tad. I have The Decemberists on my ipod.

Re: Question of the Month: Amazon, B&N or Indie?

troutbum70 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:58:50 -0000

aww. You wouldn't be able to hear me laughing.

Re: Question of the Month: Amazon, B&N or Indie?

troutbum70 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:44:32 -0000

It's quite a place. Until recently I've never had a desire to go to NYC. Someday I will mark it off the list ...

Re: Question of the Month: Amazon, B&N or Indie?

troutbum70 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:39:56 -0000

Had you pretended to know. What would you have thought it ment? I do love my ipod and cell phone and lap top, so I have fallen from the true faith.

Re: Question of the Month: Amazon, B&N or Indie?

troutbum70 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:38:48 -0000

Wood floors, old rugs, well used chairs, free coffee. The shelves have little paper markers with a picture of a buffalo and the authors name to denote a writter from Oklahoma. Very well organized and a very knowlegeable staff. They seem to have all the works of authors not just the most recent or the most known. a great place to get lost...

Re: Question of the Month: Amazon, B&N or Indie?

troutbum70 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:30:22 -0000

I am a devot Luddite and feel deep shame when I am sucked deeper into the technological abyss.

Re: Question of the Month: Amazon, B&N or Indie?

troutbum70 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:57:01 -0000

Full Circle in OKC. Anywhere actually. I don't like Barnes and Noble or other chain bookstores or resturants for that matter. I'm all about buy local. I will use Amazon for the more obscure books I read. Support the little guy they need all the help they can get...

Re: Monthly Wrap: How a Book Can Save a Kid

troutbum70 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:19:49 -0000

About an hour and a half from twin cities. Farm fields all around very few big trees. The town where they made Grumpy Old Men is near by also. I went to the bar in the movie on my way home.;-)

Re: Monthly Wrap: How a Book Can Save a Kid

troutbum70 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:24:37 -0000

It's in Wisconson near Lake Pepin.

Re: Monthly Wrap: How a Book Can Save a Kid

troutbum70 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:50:27 -0000

I have been to the Little House in the Big Woods. I was going grouse hunting in South East Minnesota and as I was driving down the highway next to the Mississippi river I see a sign for the Little house in the Big Woods. It was a replica log cabin on the site where she was born, I was there early and they had yet to open so I recrossed the river and went on to where I was hunting that day. Pretty cool if you are right by there.

Re: Good News for Former LitPark Guests!

troutbum70 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:57:52 -0000

I have been to Angouleme. I only drove through and left the main highway there to drive to the farmhouse I spent my honeymoon in. Cool.

Re: Announcement: Someone interviewed me for a change.

troutbum70 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:29:37 -0000

I remembered you saying that and have just now gotten to it. I love it so far.

Re: Announcement: Someone interviewed me for a change.

troutbum70 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:25:13 -0000

Started reading Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried today. It sucked me in half way through the first page.

Re: Announcement: Someone interviewed me for a change.

troutbum70 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:59:35 -0000

I just read your interview and am ready to read your book. I understand the part about being a storyteller. I love to tell stories, to sit around and swap tales over drinks or around a campfire is what life is to me. I wish I had more confidence in my writting and throw it out there for others to see but I am not satisfied with it. Maybe someday...

Re: Monthly Wrap: Times We Turned Pink

troutbum70 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:42:49 -0000

Aww, thank you. By the way, I love Film Noir and always wanted to go to a movie premire.;D

Re: Monthly Wrap: Times We Turned Pink

troutbum70 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:33:05 -0000

I have an arrived at a not what you thought bar story. My ex wife and I had justed moved to Minniapolis and it so happened that new years was the new millinium. So of course we were going to go party like it was 1999, seeing how the world would end the next day. We get a late start and the bar we had chosen to go to was packed and there was a line around the block. I'm a pretty tough guy but I'm not standing outside a bar on December 31st in Minnesotta even if the world is about to crash down around us. So we drive down the road and my ex sees a wine bar and bistro that appears to be open so we stop and go in. The hosttess tells us that we are to late for dinner and we explain we only came for drinks, she immediatly hands us champagne and ushers us to a table by the bar. We ordered our drinks but the hosttess never let our champagne glasses get empty so we didn't order a second round. I noticed at the table next to us that the couple sitting there were making out hot and heavy and I was happy for my fellow man for making the most out of his last night on earth. I nudged my ex under the table and she smiled a coy smile and beckoned me to come to her side of the table. Me feeling the effects and being impressed by the passion on display next to her I gladly moved to her side. Then my buddy next door came up for air and to my surprise it was a woman kissing another woman. I took a quick look around and noticed that all the couples save us where same sex, we had been there for at least an hour and had not noticed that for once we were not the norm. As we sat there drinking our champagne and waiting for the ball to drop a drunk man in leather pants accidently stepped in the tail of my jacket that hung on the back of my chair. He procedded to straighten it and tried to dust it off, I told him it was fine and that he needn't bother. He looked me in the eye and said that he was very particular about clothes and that he wanted to make sure it was clean. Being eye level with his open fly I pointed out to him that he hadn't been to particular about his zipper. He of course looks down turns and zips the zipper then sheepishly smiles and walks off. The hosttess arrived with party hats and noisemakers and of course more champagne, we all went outside and as the clock struck twelve and the fireworks went off and all the people began to kiss, I pulled her close and kissed her deep. We paid our bill and thaked our host and went home to set off our own fireworks. You never know when you walk in a door that it may just be the right best place for you at that exact time. That was probably my favorite new years eve I have ever had... Especially since the world kept spinning and my bank account didn't disapear. Obama moved my to the verge of tears when he spoke after the election, I have never heard anyone as eloquent and inspiring. God bless him and all of us...

Re: Monthly Wrap: Our Book Collections

troutbum70 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:33:33 -0000

I have books everywhere in my house and a whole box full that disappered when I moved back from Minnesotta; God only knows where they are. I have ever expanding intrests and therefore my books are varied in subject and genre. Hemingway and McCarthy are my two favorites. I don't know which is my favorite book Blood Meridian or The Old Man and the Sea, it's a toss up. I've returned to school and I have little time for pleasure reading although I did read a book that you and your boys would love. Bud and Me by Alta Abernathy. It's about two boys 9 and 5 who ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York City alone to see Teddy Roosevelt. It is awesome! Oh and I have a thing for redheads and I think it may steem from that dang Pippi Longstocking, I love those pigtails...

Re: Question of the Month: Promise

troutbum70 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:20:43 -0000

With a name like Payday he probably stumbled on a drug deal gone bad and is living the high life on a beach in Mexico.

Re: Question of the Month: Promise

troutbum70 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:22:10 -0000

I have a hobo story for you. The day I got married was a beautiful spring day, the sun was shinning, flowers were blooming, a string quartet played in the background and champagne flowed. The champagne had flowed so much that the plastic wedding flutes had been discarded and people were swilling straight from the bottle. Somehow I found myself in the parking lot across the street with all the groomsmen and bridesmaids drinking with a hobo named Payday. Here we are seven or eight people in wedding attire drinking and eating wedding cake with an old bum. Anyway, when I was a senior in highschool we had to write a term paper, I wrote mine on Jonathan Swift, when I got my paper back scribbled in red ink was the question. Where did you buy this? Directly under that was a big A.

Re: Question of the Month: Annoying Habits

troutbum70 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:46:22 -0000

Me too. But my ex didn't think so.