WALKING ON THIN ICE

lady spent at least 8 hours today writing of her non-fiction past… and 4 hours yesterday, 4 hours the day before. good stuff too. makes me think she’s more writer than i, more thinker than i, more disciplined too. i have more life stories than she, and they’re more lawless, anti-social, wilder, edgier, freakier - but her’s are more thought out, detailed, human, humane. it’s like she’s real and i’m not, as if she’s a novel and i’m a comic book. makes me wish i could write like her… but then if i could, i wouldn’t be me, and i wouldn’t have all my unreal life stories, wouldn’t be able to say things like i’ve run from the cops 10 times, got away 9. maybe it comes down to she’s human and i’m mutant. what a team we make.

since i don’t watch tv, i’ve had the good fortune of never seeing more than the accidental 5 minutes of any tv reality show - but that wicked little made it obvious it’s all played around the humiliation game. and i’ve been blessed with never seeing even a single second of american idol - could never understand what it was all about outside producing mediocre middle of the road las vegas pseudo singers.

now i understand - i just read ben elton’s visciously funny dead-on parody of the genre titled Chart Throb, the funniest wickedest novel i’ve had the pleasure of reading. in it, folk are chosen for their flaws rather than their strengths, so as to enable the new teletube version of the old carny freak show.

seeing how such is so popular these days, i wondered where my own story (our memoir manuscript we hope to shop is titled Criminal) would have a place in said milieu. and then i got it - i’m a freak show with wit, style, intelligence, and class… i’m more like On The Road extended into a 61 year trip.

onto the dark side of amerikkkan idle - george w bush is in sydney australia… here’s some of the things austrailians are saying about him.

1) i feel the presence of this single person who has created more apocalyptic risks than any other in history like a black cloud in my city. ‘the great satan.’

2) there’s no doubt about it, Bush is a fuckwit

3) Yes, the Bushman cometh. But, he will goeth, too.

4) Now, I was tempted to suggest you could protest, get arrested and live off the tax payer but The Most Hated Man in the World, and his buddies, have a bad record for care of prisoners.

5) My city of Sydney - The most hated man in the world is in town. We know he’s the most hated man in the world because the entire city is armed and locked down just to make sure nobody tries to murder him. It’s not a good time to be on the streets of Sydney. Not without your passport Anything could happen to you. You don’t even have to look Middle Eastern to get locked up. You just have to look vaguely pissed off and be carrying a placard. If you raise your voices too loud they might turn the water canon on you. Because we don’t want him to know he’s the most hated man in the world, it might hurt his feelings.

6) and here’s my bush say from 3 years ago on my other site:
traitor to american values award
&
heil to the thief - bush league central.

“The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected” - Kurt Vonnegut