Junkyard

i really fuck things up sometimes …but guess what? I’m really fucking human all of the time

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if America were an egg it would need to be a lot less cheesy It would need a lot less scrambling and it would need to be a lot less greasy.

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The People in power around the world are like a bunch of bonobos throwing shit at each other… and the civilians are the little chimp spectators. watch out for the shit, please.

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Some (jumbled) notes i took when i was chilling in the parking lot this week waiting to go to work: Parking lot Black baptist church. Choirs singing 'it won't work'. What a strange place to have a black baptist Church. The poor goth kids smoking pot and cigarettes, being loud and mooching. what a weird coincidence. Sammy's first black owned restaurant. They sell BBQ and beer. So proud to be the first black owned. There seems to be a loss of 'umph' in 'first black owned'. I went there with my Mexican boyfriend, and one of the workers said 'hola' in a mocking, stereotypical Mexican accent. How about first to be okay with owning the first to own an 'un-self-segregated' spot in downtown. The parking lot is grey and holds divided cars. Each spot waiting to keep a car. It also holds every one's litter. Each car owned by an unknown face with an unknown color. Each piece of trash left there by an unknown face with an unknown color. Sooner or later, it will be picked up and put into the green dumpster in the corner of the parking lot. The dumpster will eat any one's trash. Parking lots don't discriminate. Parking lots are a common ground, and they're happy to keep any one's car.

Reading Responses

ch 3 -- Sentence length and complex syntx In this chapter, Guin talks about sentence length and the use of words. I think i have a lot of work to do when it comes to sentense length. Being a psychology major, and having taken a DSW course in abnormal psychology, i've been trained that 'short and sweet and to the point' is important, so in that sense i think it's good. Guin talks about how it could be useful to shorten a sentence, but not to the point that you've given away too much in one sentence, like in a research paper or a piece of poetry. What i got out of it is that a little fluff is good, which, of course, is the opposite of what i was taught in my Abnormal psychology class. Each sentence should be used to lead to the next so that the reader's attention isn't hung up on just one line or image that you have created.

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Ch 4 -- Repetition Guin believes that repetiton can be a very valuable tool whesn it comes to pros writing. It can be awkward if used the wrong way, but she believes that it should be ruled out. If that is the case, using a thusauras is the right way to go. She doesn't believe that pros should 'rhyme and chime' like poetry does, but it should be used in a more subtle way. It should be used to create a subtle rhythm in a story.

Junkyard -- Haha!

Junkyard

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour