A Modest Proposal

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Who is Your Romantic Poet?

You scored as William Wordsworth, You’re poet is William Wordsworth. English Romantic poet and poet-laureate, whose “Lyrical Ballads” (1798), first published anonymously with contributions by his friend Coleridge, marked an important turning point in the history of English literature. Other works include “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and “The world is too much with us”. Wordsworth's name, perhaps even more so than that of his friend Coleridge, remains to this day almost synonymous, in England, with Romanticism itself.

William Wordsworth		69%
John Keats		56%
Lord Byron		56%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge		56%
Percy Shelley		25%

Who is Your Romantic Poet?
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Wilde

"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

- Oscar Wilde.

The greatest of these

Church Backs Out of Funeral for Gay Man

It's such a dissapointment to me to see such hatred justified by Christians today. High Point Church fashions God in the image of their bigotry and ignorance, then uses Him to justify the hate they spread with a smile on their face and fear of homosexuality growing like cancer in their soul. Their hypocrisy is an embarrassment to Christians who follow Jesus’ teachings.

They are akin to the 19th century Christians who justified slavery, saying it was sanctified by the bible (using Genesis 9:25-27 to back them up). ReligiousTolerance.org has for further information on this topic.

Jesus was about loving your neighbor not about turning your back on them in their hour of need out of so called “principle.” High Point Church, whatever happened to “the GREATEST of these is LOVE”?

D'oh!

Went and saw the Simpson’s movie. This is not another review. I want to rant about the audience. Right, I see the problem, I was part of said audience, but hear me out.

I have a friend who loves all things Simpson. He has all the collectables. They fill the basement and overflow into the living room. This friend of mine, he’s a smart guy, a good guy…he’s also a movie talker and after being part of a Simpson’s movie audience, I think I found a trend. Simpson fans – the hardcore ones anyway – like to blab obnoxiously during movies.

I’m not talking about low whispers, or hell, even loud whispers. I’m talking about the volume you use to talk on the phone when you have a bad connection. And it wasn’t just one guy. There were several kicked-in-the-head-by-a-horse-when-I-was-ten-assholes commenting throughout the entire movie. For the love of God, at least say something interesting or funny if you’re going to torture your captive audience. My Simpson fan friend would have had something intelligent to say to compensate for his annoying gabbing. What the hell is wrong with the rest of the Simpson fanatics?

5 dollar

Writer's Weekly had their 24-hour short story contest. I paid my five dollars and blocked out twelve on Saturday to twelve on Sunday. Noon rolled around and I logged onto their site for the prompt and word count.

I knew from reading prompts (and winner's stories) from years past that Writer's Weekly doesn't step out of the box or deviate from main stream, politically correct topics, and so I wasn't surprised at the prompt (camp councilor telling ghost story around fire).

It was a challenge for me to satisfy the requirement to touch on the prompt in some way. I think part of my problem was that I had been doing some research for a book I'm writing involving Voodoo so that's where my mind was at when the contest began. I like my story. It's dark and tragic...and takes a lot of artistic license with the prompt. Oh well. I can still hope for a door prize.