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My story the Brazilian is not a 'Boston Noir'. In fact I've not even read one of those books. I read most of Jack Kerouac's books. I read enough of, and listened to enough of Hunter Thompson to 'get' the gist of what he was all about (as a writer). But my book was more based upon just the idea of a crime novel, in general, only in a small sense. The Brazillian is not a crime novel in the traditional sense.

I wrote The Brazilian in 2008 and 2009. I did not use an outline. But I did use a 'concept'. There is a book that I did read which did inspire me: Narcissis and Goldmind by some German author. I say it like that as a joke because everyone who reads 20th Century novels knows the author of whom I write. He was a famous man. He didn't release a lot of books. His popularity with people of my age group . . . well . . . I think amoung readers and authors he is well known. His name is . . .

Why let it be a mystery? By now I expect that anyone who has read this far already knows who I'm speaking of. And, yes, in some cases, it is OK to use a preposition at the end of a sentence as long as it doesn't leave the listener or the reader confused.

Whip away the tears, boy.
Pick up a shovel and help with the levy.

In a blog it's always good to delete things. And in a blog right now is the best time to do it! If you want to see any of the old stuff you need but just 'arrow back'. There is a lot of content here. You just need to dig it out for yourself.

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How much of too much is enough?

"How could you forget to remember?"

The meaning of art is not up to debate with censors.


dorkulous stories
 of the long ago.


Here is an old song of mine:


A hard hearted Rasta
A full plate of pasta
A boss who says 'has ta'
And she acts like a basta'd

In the bigger world
everybuddy knows
you'll never make a girl
like that happy.

It's a brighter day
everybuddy knows
everybuddy know hoe ho ho hoes

It's better thing
when you forget how you feel
when you don't feel that good about someone.
Let it all be new
you might be surprised at how the person's changed.

I do everything you say  (ba ba baap baa)
but still you hold back my pay (baap baa)


Everybuddy's gonna have lobsters
ba baaa
and we're dancing with mobsters
ba baap baa



Sept 20, 2014

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🔨🔨♥♥🔨🔨 love me or else! which is poison love.love me or I'll take a hammor to you! psycho excessive love.

Too tired to sleep 
   he thinks
 "I must be dreaming."
  
The Sargent,
the major
and the Luetenint Colonel engineer
where having a friendly pitcher
at a club
behind the peir.

Mar 29, 2014 (03-29-2014)

well . . .

I think I've blogged enough today.

"I'm all blogged out."

~ OK Now.

Praise God! awful first novel lines:

Bounce Bounce Bounce in the bed of the truck, the mountains and the coming Summer shower Marisel . . . [ . ?. . . ?]

OK, I've actually got somewhere to go.

The chuckle drunk argue just because it's fun for them to get someone else riled up cause it makes them fell powerful. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha beware the chuckle drunk when his (her) mood turns dark.

how hard is it to use these new symbols in your stuff? Well, first you need to know that they exist. Second, you can just cut and paste them.

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I've got a message for . . . Mr Bash (an alias for someone else). Mr Bash, if I use brace expansion with the dot-dot idiom, ie like this:

echo -e {🌃..🌅}{🌍..🌏}{🌑..🌚}" "

why does that not work when

echo -e {🌃,🌄,🌅}{🌍,🌎,🌏}{🌑,🌒,🌓,🌔,🌕,🌖,🌗,🌘,🌙,🌚}" "

will? Maybe I've not ordered the elements properly. Well that little snippit doesn't work that well but t

What was that? He wonders. He has to wash the rest of the pans. He'll let them cool off first. That blue jay squacks again out in the spruce tree.

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The following poem is fresh, whipped up, off the cuff.

  
song fragment:

This is the part
where he's breaking her heart
You don't have to stop
if you don't ever start.

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 ♥♥?

My rainbows
are only there when it's raining.
You want rainbows
on every window, on every horizon
all of the time.

 ♥♥?

in your heart

Be nice to yourself and others. What other choice?

Use your mind
to be kind

Wake up!

Wake up!
like The Buddha did

And this really is at 
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