Balls and Walnuts
more than you ever wanted to know
Our Basket Case winner is . . .
jmc, if you want Basket Case, please email me (azureus at harborside dot com) with your snail mail addie, and I’ll take care of it tomorrow. If you don’t want it, let me know in the comments, and I’ll choose a different winner.
In honor of jmc, I’m gonna do her meme.
1. When did you start blogging and why? I started Shatter on Blogger last April. I had two reasons. First, I’d grown fed up with myself for becoming a weekend writer. I figured blogging would give me that write-every-day-discipline, and it has; too bad that discipline isn’t generalizable to non-blog writing projects. Second reason: I had my trilogy well in hand, not finished but getting there, and I wanted to start networking and building an audience. I’m rather delighted with my audience — thank you all!
2. What don’t you talk about? So you’re probably thinking, Is there anything he doesn’t talk about? But I try to stay away from hurtful topics. I really do. Even if certain people could stand some hurting. I also have to mind my Ps and Qs with regard to patient confidentiality. Oh, the stories I could tell . . . and land myself in a world of hurt.
3. Are you and your blogging persona the same person? In real life, I’m not nearly as funny. I’m a whiny bitch, if you want the truth. My blogging persona is also two inches taller than me, and his penis gerth is 1.2 cm greater. He’s an odd one, my persona, part English, part metric. Go figure.
4. How do you use blogging to build friendships? My persona wins people over (people? Um, women — PatJ, beard, Jim, Dean, I love y’all but if the women deserted me, I’d fold up shop tomorrow). I wait until they profess a desire to carry my children, and then I make my move.
5. How would you describe your writing style? Informal. Folksy. Cutesy. Boopsie. Whoopsie. Multiple personality disorder in action. Shameless. Crafty. Shafty. You know shafty:
You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother–
(Shut your mouth)
But I’m talkin’ about Shaft
(Then we can dig it)He’s a complicated man
But no one understands him but his woman
(John Shaft)
Yes, I’m the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks. Right on.
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I tag: I’ll be nice and do as jmc did. If this one intrigues you, go for it. Let me know, and I’ll post links below.
D.
::happy dance:: I’m sending my snail mail now. I’ve read Hiaasen’s Hoot, but not his other stuff. Did you see him on 60 Minutes a few weeks ago? Intriguing person, imo.