Update: The next installment of A Lemur’s Life (or whatever I’m calling it these days) will be “Driving to Michigan with a Drugged Cat in the Truck”. That’s a long-ish one and honestly will take some consultation with Cruel Wife to get part of the details right.
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Ok, here’s the deal.
Dad always said “Ask me no questions and I’ll tell you no lies.”
What he really meant was “If you ask me something, be damn sure you want to know what I really think, because that’s all you’re going to get.” Sonofagun stuck to that one, too.
I tell Cruel Wife “I want the truth, not what you think I want to hear.”
This is not (not) (NOT) (NOT) a fishing for compliments expedition – that’s a waste of your time and mine. Comments are welcome, compliments only if they’re deserved, and tell me what I need to hear if you comment – got it? I hate wasted effort. Even if you don’t think I should do it now or ever, let me know why, m’kay. Seriously. It’s honest feedback that makes one grow. I don’t know a single person who improved based on only good warm-fuzzies. Trust me, I will not take it personally – it’s a favor you’re doing me.
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Yay! My troll got pissy!
Warning: Strong Content for More Sensitive Readers – Obscene Troll Advisory.
Well, Oldcatman was very very upset when I picked up my ball and went home.
Who would like to hear what his last two comments that were that were picked up in my spam filter?
Very predictable…..you deleted my last comment…good for you.
The only thing I regret with these various tit for tat comment wars is I’D LOVE TO BE IN THE SAME ROOM WITH YOU ALL……with an aluminum bat in my hands.
About helping people, I spent nearly 50 years helping people in health care.
See ya, sport.
-Oldcatman, whose unoriginality with the parting shot misses the mark about as much as his threats of physical violence
Hmmm. Glad to see you took the high road on that one. You in the health care biz?. This is where the “thousands” of people who love you come from? A sweetheart like you? Oh, please. I would sooner eat broken glass than have a person like you take care of me
Guess what, Oldcatman? I didn’t delete you out of fear – I wasn’t afraid of what you’d say but because, seriously – you’re lame. I mean really really sad. You followed me from someone else’s blog because you decided you didn’t like me. Did you seriously think I’d spend a lot of time listening to your brand of drug-addled lunacy here at my place?
Quick show of hands, folks.
Already a sorry excuse for a human being, you descended to your next lower level.
**** YOU AND ALL YOU REPRESENT……..
(To be deleted)
– Oldcatman, in the last permanent thing he’ll utter on my blog unless he’s such a limp member that he spoofs an e:mail address
Guess what, sport? I didn’t delete that one, either in spite of the rapier wit contained within it.
Note: The “sport” was my line originally, not his.
I will delete anything you say from here on out so save your energy.
I do think publishing these stories would benefit mankind, in a what-not-to-wear/ do/ say kind of way.
Also, I would like to volunteer my proofreading talents gratis 🙂
So, providing a bad example for others to learn from is “good”, then?
Wow, am I ever good at providing a bad example. I’ve found my calling.
Your proofreading skilz are legendary, your markup pen is bloody, and you got a deal if the polls are favorable.
After this weekend, that ain’t the only thing that’s bloody around here 😉
And yes, you have found your calling!! WHOO HOO!!!!
Rough time w/ the visitors?
I don’t do well with family-type guests. Family and fish stink after three days and sometimes they come onto the scene a bit whiffy, too.
Most every one has stories to tell. Tales of their past adventures or misadventures. Or perhaps they just want to spin a yarn. But the individual who is able to take the above and put it on paper, while still retaining the essence, the life of the story, is a far rarer creature.
You sir, are one such blessed individual. Get em out there, and $*%*(*&^*$ the rejection slips. Writing is a cutthroat business, but if you never try, you will indeed, never get published. Best of luck. (And yes, I would buy one should you get said book to market.)
Of course, if you put all the stories up here first that might drive down book sales. Just sayin’.
Which is why I’m going to slow down on these types and go to more mundane observational stuff. A most excellent point to bring up, Enas.
You’re a sly one, Mr. Mitch.
(Enas snuck in there and I wasn’t going to change it – I kind of like “The Two Faces of Yorl,” myself.
Or… you post them all, or you at least do a little bit of both (blog some, retain some backstage). It has worked for the Foglio’s, creators of Girl Genius. They started out publishing the story in comic book-style publications, where each year was broken into 3 or 4 sections. They limped along. Phil Foglio stated that the business of selling copies didn’t really take off until they started posting everything for free. People liked getting the weekly installments, loved not having to pay for them, but there are lots of us that want the dead-tree versions to put on our shelf. I have every single one, two of Volume 1 (original line-ink drawings and the recently issued color rendition), and 5 with hand-sketched bookplates by Phil Foglio for pre-ordering volumes 8 through 11 and the reprint of volume 1. (Yeah, I paid $10 or $15 extra each for them. Worth every penny! Maybe I’ll let Lemur King scan and post them someday.)
Anyway, my point is that if you are good enough, people will read it and want more. Some will want the dead-tree copies even if they can read it for free here. They make great show-and-tell items, excellent gift ideas, and you have the bragging rights of actually owning it. You name it. You, too, can be in on the very beginning! lol
Much as I’d love to scan them I think Foglio would have a problem with that, and I could understand why, really.
I really respect his work and would not want to step on his toes.
I’ll send an e-mail and ask them. TBD
Yeah, oldcatman is a waste of life. Where exactly did you meet him? I wouldn’t mind finding some more of his posts out there, they’d make excellent additions to a collection of idiotic things spouted off by drooling morons on the Internet.
I second what Guy posted. Definitely get your stuff out there. And if your stories get published, let us know so we can buy copies.
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Curtal – the whole thing kind of started here, if I didn’t already post it…
http://antzinpantz.com/kns/?p=32995#comment-26562
Regarding OCM, dontcha just love “health care professionals” who want to show up to the party with a baseball bat in hand? What wonderful sportsmanship from a “health care professional”. Are we going to play softball or hardball?
Oh well, its just as well that he won’t be around anymore. LK already pitched him a few lobs yesterday, and OCM swung so hard trying to hit it that he must have wrapped the bat around his backside. If only he knew LK personally, he’d realize just how far his swings were off the mark.
Yeah, I’m a healthcare worker as well. Meaning I work in a hospital. So oldcatman spent 50 years working in a hospital? Big deal. I could say I’ve spent the last ten years helping people in healthcare. That statement would be as meaningful as someone saying they spent so many years helping people at Wal-Mart.
Unless you’re a doctor or a nurse (and there are just as many jobs at a hospital that don’t help patients), you’re just doing a job. Actually, even for many doctors, all they’re doing is their job.
I’ve got a buddy who’s a mechanic, who’s spent the last thirty years helping people.
My barber has been helping people for around 40 years.
Several ladies who work at the local grocery are very helpful as well, they help countless people every day.
Sheesh.
Heh, I think I got under that guy’s skin. He insinuated I was a whore at the NAG thread, and after I offered my condolences for his recent losses, he replied with a “ho hum”.
So much for him being remotely reasonable.
Got a link? Lost mine.
He’s started sending me love letters (latent homosexuality issues again) and trying to get on my good side by accusing all women in my life or associated with me of being whores.
He’s kind of silly, the more I look at him.
OCM used to be a regular at the old BMEWS (when Allan Kelly was still alive and kicking) he would stir things up there often, but was kind of looked upon as the resident troll/hippy/whatever.
I kinda liked him back in the day, sorry to see he appears to have gone a bit too far south as it were. No reason for him to come over here and stir things up. Way I see it is we are all probably loony tunes enough, we don’t need any help in that regard. And it’s not nice to wiz on someone else’s carpet while a guest at their home on the web.
Guy S – he’s ticked because I disagreed with his notion that there’s a need for respect for the dead in every situation. I can think of quite a few cases where said respect is not warranted. I pointed out that if we want to be respected when we die, we ought to live so that we treat others with more respect.
Then I kind of said pretty much that he ought to take that as food for thought. I’m probably remembering/relating that such that it paints me in a better light.
Anyway, it went downhill from there.
He didn’t like that so he came over here to express his views.
That said, he’s a pretty foul troll. About the point where he starts calling CW and Aggie certain things is where I get a certain steely resolve. Not angry. Just resolved.
I also “like” the fact that I never used a single word of profanity, with my initial intent to simply point out how his manner of speaking was in direct contradiction to his claims of being a spreader of good-will and happiness. In response I get called a whore. One should not overuse such words, lest we lose the varied and subtle meanings of them.
It is unfortunate that OCM is so full of hate. Being in the healthcare incustry, he should know the health risks that comes with constant internal contention and strife. Life is too precious to spend the whole time spewing such bile. Let’s also hope that my husband never meets him in person. He doesn’t take it kindly to folks calling me crude names.
Well, CW, I treated him with respect at the beginning, and got putrescence heaped at me. I do recall him from Barkin Moonbat, but he was not as toxic as he is now.
I feel for Vilmar though….
Oh, personally I do hope your hubby meets him in person.
And that I get the bloody pulp for compost 😉
I would never suggest that he pick up his teeth with broken fingers.
Oh no…. not your thing, I know.
It is mine 😉
Never bring a baseball bat to a Winchester fight, snuggles.
Heyyyyy… who you callin’ “snuggles”?