| NOT DEAD |
[Aug. 27th, 2006|11:05 am] |
I can't seem to write anything lately, too busy partying. Wheeee!
Hey, I deserve it ... it's been twenty-five years since I've had this much fun. It rocks.
The black pickup truck with eight cases of beer behind the seat is the party journal, so that's where I've been hanging out.
At some point, this journal will probably be converted into a writer's blog with my real name/pen name on it. Until then it mostly sits in the garage save for an occasional spin around the block.
GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT TO ALL POETRY THIEVES:
Even if you don't get caught, you oily little weasels, you'll always know that you had to steal someone else's work just to get noticed, because your own work is inferior.
Now, go choke on the sawdust of praise. Enjoy.
-Diz-
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P.S. -- BILL!!! .... how did you know my favorite part of the turkey is the drumstick? XD
In crazy world, perhaps five people on earth understand this joke, and that's a generous estimate. In rational world, it's 99.9999999% certain that I'm the ONLY one who gets it.
Either way, you're adorable. |
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[May. 7th, 2006|08:16 am] |
x-posted from other journal --
I will put cross-posted material behind LJ-cuts from now on, to save the eyeballs of friends who belong to both journals and the same writing communities, thereby getting the same post two or three times in a row on their Friends pages. Sorry about that.
( poem 5-07-06 )
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[May. 3rd, 2006|03:39 pm] |
x-posted from other journal
( poem 5-03-06 )
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| Freud Paradox 3: science as religion |
[Mar. 30th, 2006|11:26 am] |
Freudian Psychology collapsed.
Was the bedrock foundation flawed, or the cathedral built on top architecturally weak?
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"Freud in Our Midst" (Newsweek -- March 27, 2006)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11904222/site/newsweek/ |
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| Freud Paradox 2: foundering fathers |
[Mar. 30th, 2006|11:08 am] |
Freud is the father of modern Psychology.
His own mind reveals a prime example of unconscious inner assumptions erroneously shaping his outward conclusions.
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| Freud Paradox 1: subjective objectivity |
[Mar. 30th, 2006|10:59 am] |
Freud's core concept of unconscious motivations driving human behavior was right.
He then proceeded to get almost every definition of those unconscious motivations wrong.
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[Mar. 27th, 2006|12:45 pm] |
[sparked spontaneously from Mislead_Insight's latest]
Palmisty
Cross mine with silver
for a moderate price
I can play out
a longer life line
drawing it down
from the heel of the hand
to the wrist
with this little knife
It doesn't hurt much
after a few drinks
A magic incantation
makes the knife
stronger than your fate
Trust me
I won't go too deep
near the veins
© March 27, 2006 Dizzy Broad
[EDIT ..... You know, that typo in the title was an accident but I'm keeping it. :D]
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[Mar. 10th, 2006|02:53 pm] |
I am the curse
of my own existence
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[Feb. 8th, 2006|03:48 pm] |
[Mislead_Insight, this sparked off your "emo snippets..?" poem this morning . . . although I'm not sure why. It's a hypothetical scene created from a combination of at least two real-life scenarios. Hmmmmmm . . .]
Falling
I know
this is going to hurt
more than anything
ever hurt before
I can see it coming
too early and too late
lives passed in the night
on different trains
wrong place, wrong time
opportunities missed
details forgotten
souls unkissed
meeting you again
feels like hitting a stone wall
of emotion
new and old
there is no us
we don't exist
unworkable situations
one-sided desires
and when I am dead
without you
words become silence
I know
so I let myself fall
within you
smashed to life
by the impact
© February 8, 2006 Dizzy Broad
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| 50 words ... x 2 |
[Jan. 12th, 2006|11:22 pm] |
[About a week ago, after a nap, these two fifty-word story images arrived back to back ... which is strange because they couldn't be more opposite, yet they go together.]
Horror Story
She stepped beside the sidewalk magician, shaved head painted yellow, big black dots for eyes, black smile curving upward. They thought her part of the show. Giggles as her mouth opened wide, gasps as hand and arm disappeared down her throat, screams when she pulled forth her own beating heart.
Love Story
Released in astral form, they moved with ease through the machinery, dancing among the circuits, echoing across the sound boards, their fingers passing through glass and plastic, thoughts kissing on the doorstep to nowhere. Curled together in a hammock of woven wires, they swayed comfortably in the electron breeze.
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| in a relentless quest to excise excess verbiage... |
[Jan. 5th, 2006|09:57 pm] |
Remonstrance
you had a beard
I never saw you
close enough to kiss
but not to see |
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| Strange Magic |
[Oct. 11th, 2005|09:50 pm] |
"Please," said the girl sprawled across my desk, "again . . ."
Rumors always circulated, whispered furtively between prospective PhD's, but I never believed it.
"The progressive tense, formed with the auxiliary be plus the present participle, indicates continuing action," I gasped as she writhed beneath me.
The legend was true—grammar sluts!
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| thank you to the previous poster for startling me out of my lethargy... |
[Oct. 5th, 2005|12:10 am] |
am I enlightened
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In reference to this:
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| finger painting |
[Sep. 20th, 2005|02:26 am] |
My colors look great on my LCD monitor and awful on my CRT monitor. >: How do you website designers put up with all these variables and still come up with a decent looking product?
emerging from catatonia, ;)
-the long silent Diz-
*who shall remain silent in certain venues, relax |
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[Aug. 14th, 2005|11:34 am] |
to whom it may concern:
Don't worry, I wasn't staying, just dropped by to say hi. Carry on, you do a great job with the material, always entertaining and clever as hell. (I need to go write my own stuff anyway.)
-Loyal Reader- |
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| Messenger |
[Aug. 6th, 2005|12:23 am] |
He gripped the stern-rail, gaze fixed on the receding shoreline. There atop the promontory, black hair and white skirts swirling in the wind, she stood haloed in sunlight against towering gray clouds. Then she flew, an incandescent angel, soaring past dark cliffs to bury her message in the glittering sea.
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| yippee... |
[Jul. 12th, 2005|03:30 pm] |
SUCCESS!
The background did not fit on the smaller screen, it overlapped with the text boxes. So I resized the image, then stuck it on an even bigger canvas--the image itself is smaller but the background fills both small and large screens now with no overlap--brushed out the edges once again with the smudge tool ... et voila, it worked. Now that I know the proper size canvas to use, making other backgrounds will be much easier. Shuffled the text and link colors a bit more and finally I am satisfied with the whole layout. For now. :p
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EDIT July 12, 10:40 PM -- Today I noticed that the smudge tool left some annoying color banding in the background canvas--patchy areas of color rather than smoothly brushed color--which showed up in our larger LCD monitor but not in the regular monitor. -sigh- So I took it back to the shop and figured out how to take out the patchiness with the airbrush tool, while still retaining subtle variations in shade rather than a solid block of color. The smudge tool was still necessary to get all that nice swirling effect around the skirt. Yay. |
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| -layout- |
[Jul. 12th, 2005|02:48 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | color coordinated | ] |
| [ | music |
| | tippity-tap on the keys at 3 AM | ] |
These colors seem a bit easier on the eyes, I think, than the intense purples. Also, I didn't care for the hard edge on the background image so I expanded the surrounding canvas and brushed out all the edges--the smudge tool in Photoshop is a handy little item, I love it. The problem was, the background image fit just right on a regular size screen but on a wider screen you could see the hard edges of the original photo. I'm using a wide screen tonight but will check tomorrow and see if it fits the smaller screen as well. Partial transparency didn't look good in this design but I'll try it again later with a different set-up.
Ending up with a spiff-looking journal is an aesthetically happy event, but my main purpose is learning how to tweak the source codes to produce custom effects. I'm sure it's a no-brainer for people who grew up doing this sort of thing, but ... I didn't.
-Diz- |
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| hyperbolic inversion |
[Jul. 7th, 2005|07:00 pm] |
stating the outrageous
points out the obvious
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[Jul. 2nd, 2005|12:44 am] |
Well, y'know, tomorrow is a relative term. What is time in the grand scheme of things anyway? July 4th weekend shenanigans, kids out of school as of this past Wednesday, Spouse out of town a lot recently and now on vacation for a few days . . . balance and priorities. In cyberspace, the program keeps a'runnin' all night long and tomorrow is always another day.
-Diz- |
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