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Success never defines a person, instead perseverance through failure determines the face of mankind.

Bill Lyon

If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Walt Whitman

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

It’s a Big No on the 3-Day.

I think maybe I didn’t speak loud enough again.
Who knows.
Furthermore, who cares.

Who is Keyser Söze?

Or perhaps the more pertinent question is:  who is Fergis McGillicuddy?
I’m not exactly sure yet, but his blog is brilliant.   Check it out. 

For Those of You Into Essays and the Such

My first paper for online University.  I’m very proud of myself for finishing it(since I really suck at essays).  Now, on to the next…
The concept of justice according to Hester Prynne of Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter is all at once similar and estranged from Melville’s title character, Billy Budd, in his tale Billy Budd, Sailor.  While [...]

Single Size Serving

I submitted this one to Flash Me Magazine, even though I said I was going to get my homework done first.  There’s nothing as satisfying as procrastination.  Enjoy.
Single Size Serving
Setting: Tuesday morning, coffeshop/diner, high backed booths, laminate countertops.  It is overcast outside, fog and drizzle.
 {camera zooms in a tabletop level upon a steel container that [...]

Thrash and Roadkill

He passed the age to thrash one night on the highway.  He wrinkled his nose as if he smelled skunk faintly, stinkweed maybe.  In a moment it was gone.  His mouth opened, tongue lolled toward the front of his puffy face.   
These scars are stories, he liked to say to first time but soon forgotten friends.  [...]

S’more Procrastination

There are 177 words left today and I’ve run out.  I can’t concentrate, there are marshmallows cramming out every last available parking spot upstairs.
And now I’m thinking of Ghostbusters.  What ever happened to Rick Moranis?  Sigourney Weaver’s parents must have been flower children.  What type of name is that anyway, Sigourney?
And now I’m thinking of [...]

Still, No Word.

Thought that FER SURE 3-Day would be getting back to me by 5 this evening with a yay or nay, but it ain’t so, Joe.  The E-mail was ambiguous as to when exactly the day was that we, the semi-finalists, would be contacted.
I guess it’s not today!!
Since media goes out at the beginning of August, [...]