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Webpage is underway. Still under construction, but it feels good to get some work done. So far so good. All set up and ready for mass production. I imagine I'll use this section often for spare thoughts.

Ph.D. Work is hard.
Mantra For the Day

1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. (Hmmm, I always do this)

More Soon

The truth is the project itself is coming along very slowly. I had hoped to achieve an online solid point of departure, but it appears that I am fastly approaching ruin.

This will be my virtual desktop where I hope to write down my inner thoughts.

Mantra for the Day
2. Memorize your favorite poem.

(DONE!)
Well at least most of 'em! How can you only have one favorite?

God Proclaims Raspberries "Now Even More Berrilicious"

HEAVEN"Attempting to counter a decline in worldwide raspberry consumption, God announced Monday that starting March 1, the great taste of raspberries will be "even more berrilicious." "Get ready for a whole new taste sensation," God said. "Soon, raspberries will be bursting with so much outrageous fruity flavor, you'll want to call them 'razzle-dazzleberries.'" If raspberry consumption fails to increase, other changes are in store, including "magic color-change berries," available on bushes for a limited time next spring. "Slam that great fruity taste in your face,"

God urged

I always loved this little blurb which came from the Onion, and you can check

The Onion out in my Links.

3. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have, or loaf all you want! (Unless you're a Ph.D. Student!)

Sojourn is coming along fine. I need to get to work harder. I have taken the time to work on the webpage. It seems to be coming along.

I've been constantly thinking how much I miss my friends in Lake Charles. I have my hands on some of their works, so I thought I'd showcase a few of them, whose genius helped me to evolve. One such writer Matt Lany was constantly stretching the boundaries of poetry. Here is his poem, Will's Hill which like many others, always delighted me.

Which is Why Matt Lany is my Choice for featured Poet of the Month!

Trudies Southern Teacakes

INGREDIENTS

4 Cups of Self Rising Flour

2 Sticks of Butter.

2 Teaspoons of Vanilla

3 Large Eggs

** *** **
Steps
Mix thoroughly.Cream butter and sugar.Add eggs.Gradually add flour.Add vanilla.Dough will be very thick.If too thick add 2 tablespoons of milk.Roll dough into a roll.Wrap roll in tin foil.Place in freezer until firm.Slice.Bake on greased cookie sheet at 325 for 10 minutes.

I felt it valuable to work on the webpage today. As far as I can tell it's really shaping up. Currently I have placed a lot of information on it. Most of the information is biographical. I like doing this though. Above is the recipe for my Grandmother's Teacakes. In a sentimental vein I wrote my first poem as an undergraduate called "Teacakes at Trudies."

The web is certainly not nice to poetry. I am having extreme difficulty putting my work on the web. Below is the poem.

Teacakes At Trudies

This poem was officially my first real poem. It arcs back and has an organic theme to it, but it is a sophomoric poem.. Once I had written this, I had transcended certain boundaries. I began to do expiramentation with narrative and then I went a little nuts. I started to emulate fairy tales, quite heavily. My undergraduate thesis is filled with these fairy tale poems, but during this time, I was developing my voice and it paid off tremendously.

Success!

The CODEX is officially up. It took going back and forth several times to achieve this, but I believe the end payoff is completely worth it. I keep finding errors, but the great thing is I am learning to deal with them!

If given enough time I expect to put my Undergraduate Thesis on the Web. It will allow me a modicum of access, and my audeince will see the official understanding of my work.

At the moment I shall ahve to transfer the poems from a disk, but this shouldn't take too much time.
Journal Entry #1

Saturday, November 27.

I have discovered that coding and webpage work is quite tiring. Already all the thing I have done don't seem to be enough. My work on the page has been rapid. I am assuming that I need to get home. Thanksgiving has come and past, and I spent it with Chad Hansen, a good friend I shall have to thank constantly for the great food he gave me. During the weekend I worked on my story revising the lines. I am looking forward to the rewrite.

(More Later).

Journal Entry #2

Monday, November 29

Today Begins the second foray into my Online Journal. My class was very prosperous in Fiction Writing and al;though what I turned in for class was a beginning, it seems my story has evolved much further than i hd expected. The story is now about secrets and the possiblity of abuse or incest. I shudder to think about the word, seeing as how both my parents are two of the kindest people to ever walk the planet. I have been working on the story a while and I think, without a doubt, that it is intriguing enough to go in the opposite direction. I trust Dr. Nelson's Opinions and judgement in the same way I trusted Dr. Wood's and Dr. Butler's guidance. Perhaps there is something to me and this fiction thing after all. Perhaps.

I received a pleasent e-mail from R. R. Baxley, a student I took Fiction under at the University of South Carolina. As well, Dr. Stephen Gardner e-mailed me, and Kevin Meux and Mary Vaughn. I'm not sure of the support of dislike for the website, but the project has come along. Even if I only update it one of two days, I am making great progress. So far all things are falling into place. I am currently reading The Trial by Franz Kafka, as to Dr. Shulte's suggestion, and I can only say that Kafka, really is the man. The new translation is quite skilled and very well handled. The translator linsk sentences very well, so at the moment I am coming into my own in acknoweldeging my abilty tothink Non-linearly.

I look forward to the amount of study I shall do hear at UTD. (More Soon)

By the way, this weeks poem is a delightful one by Gerald Manley Hopkins.

Spring and Fall

Margaret, are you grieving
Over Golden grove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah, as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by , nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leaf meal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why,
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed.
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.
A General Concern about Rob Liefeld: FIX IT OR MOVE ON!

Being one of the few who actually missed the "Great Marvel Shakup of the 90's, I find it hard to believe that the some of the individuals who are now running Image Comics were ever that good. I take that back. I can see that Jim Lee was a real asset to have drawing the X-men and as I look over his work and how he's matured, I can see a real blooming of his talent. What I don't see is the same ability with Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld.

In fact, I can see that Todd is a very business savy man. For that I salute him. He turned his spawn creation into a multi-million dollar industry and changed the face of collectable toys, but as I pass the rows and rows of Spawn Comics--Spawn the Redeemer, Curse of the Spawn,Spawn the Undead, and Spawn's Over-night Slumber Party, I get a little more and more concerned.

In the beginning Image was crisp and clean and well drawn, but now the general public wants more than just good art. Sure, I still dig the drawing style of Brain Hitch and Paul Nery, but it is the culmination and interweaving of their art and Warren Ellis' plotting that draws me back. My essential problem is that today's reading public is drawn to the interweaving, and the story and art must work together. With that in mind, I'd like to wave my accusing finger at Rob Liefield, who is better as a rumor monger than he will ever be at running a company. Rob, with all due respect, either get off your ass and do some art, or get out. The same goes for Tod McFarlane, whose virtual success has ruined him completely! He no longer draws and worse he even cares about his beloved creation Spawn. Wasn't that what the whole mess was about? That these folks were concerned with what the companies might be doing with their creations? And what does McFarlane Do once he gets even a tiny bit of success? He turns Spawn over to not only another writer, but also another Artist? Doesn't that just really irk you? It irks me.

The other thing that Irks me is Rob Liefield's inability to publish on schedule. I want to read the Alan Moore Stories he has, which according to Liefield himself is at least dozens of scripts for both Glory , Supreme, Youngblood and other stuff. Where are these damn comics? I think the question lies in the art department. Rob Liefield won't draw. If it's a matter of getting the perfect artist, then I guess it could be justified, but Rob, are you not an artist? To answer this question--I think we can all agree, that Rob Liefield has limitations and he knows it!

This is my central Question: What Does Liefield draw?

As far as I can tell, he may have drawn Youngblood, when it was first from Image for a while, but why do we only see the occasional cover? The truth is much like McFarlane, it's suddenly unproductive or taboo to actually draw. Excuse me if I'm wrong but didn;t we as fans shell out zillions of dollars when Liefield was on new muitants and even more when McFarlane has control of Spiderman? We did. Iknow I did.

I am already getting heated over the matter. The fact is that Success has spoiled both these men, where it hasn't spoiled Mr.Lee. Lee still draws. He may do it slowly and methodically, but he still manages to illustrate a story.

If we look closely at Both McFarlane's and Liefiel'd art we can see another reason as well. They don't have a lot of the skills that some of the other artists have. Its evident that Cris Sprouse, (forgive the mispelling if I did, mispell his name) has a lot of talent, that he can inspire that "Golden Age" feel in such books as Tom Strong and even Supreme, but McFarlane only has two tones: dark and less dark.

I often wonder if the entire, "Spawn has no face" issue is all a part of McFarlane's inability to draw anything but the most grotesque figure he can. Twitch and Sam are grotesque. There is NO Plot, as far as I can tell!

Al Simmons has done more than enough good in the world to earn redemption, but each of us is continually subjected to the moody anguish Al's constant and unending torment story, the hint of a war that has yet to happen and Cogs' inept and even misunderstood theories about things. On a personal level this is why the cartoon series is so much better than the Comic. Todd knows he has to produce and that the television audience won't put up with the bullshit we have for over 100 issue.

Liefield hasa similar problem, it's all action and nothing but action. Here's an example

His women still have scrawny legs, and small feet, his males are all snearing and finally, on a most basic level, he simply recreated the aspects of the worlds he was forced to leave. Thor/Superman/Batman/Submariner/The X-men/ and WonderW oman/ and or Captain America. I will admit, I enjoyed Fighting American and for a while, I liked reading his Avengers, but only because I wanted it to be action packed.

For the most part, that was what the Extreme line did. It delivered nothing but row action packed Global comic events: Extreme Madness, Extreme Sacrifice. All these were earth shattering, and they killed off a LOT of characters! But unlike A good crisis story, none of Liefield's death's meant anything. I sat throughbook after book where Liefield kept creating charcters so HE COULD KILL THEM OFF!

Brigade, New Men and Youngblood were all the same. I can remember reading some pompous ass interview about how he hated for a series to end. GET OVER IT!. DC kills most series that are good.

New Men isn't selling? Tough! Break up the heroes and use them elsewhere! Anywhere!

Don't continue to relaunch them over and over and over.

If I see another Number one or zero and I'll puke.

I guess what this is all coming to is that Liefield, can't fix the damn problems he has with books, instead he starts a new one.

RE-GEX? The Coven? Evangeline? New Men? NO, NO NO!

Fix what's broken man! Fix it or move on!.

I hate to say it, but I almost wish that Liefield would draw again, if he got on the ball and drew maybe we'd see these Alan Moore stories.

They might not be great, but we might see them, but as I said, the man has no depth.

I don't know how many Cable-like Gun-toting/glowing-eyed-individual's I've seen,

True there's no glowing eye in RE-GEX but he's got a patch. There's no depth, and I think that Liefield knows it. His fans, if he has any, know it too. Image was spawned on the concept of flooding the market with Alternate Covers, Sexy bods and short 19 page stories.

That time is over.

I don't buy alternate covers anymore. I hope thatthey'll also stop doing 0 issues and 1/2 ones too, but I can only dream.

He just needs to spend more time at the drawing board and less at Taco Bell.

Fix it or move on!

I wonder if Loeb still even writes for him, far as I can tell he could probably do better working elsewhere, which is the reason I think Alan is faxing his stuff in.

Journal Entry #3

Thursday, January 20

I have not been back for a while. This semester, I am determined to keep the web-site going regularly. The quote of the day is from Henry Miller:

"The best thing about writing is not the actual labor of putting word against word, brick upon brick, but the preliminaries, the spadework which is done in silence, under any circumstances in dream as well as in the waking state. "

--Henry Miller

I am currently reading They Whisper by Robert Olen Butler and Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingals and MOONIVERSITY by Cynthia Haynes

I want to make sure I keep the Link to Tristan's page. I'm killing e-mails one by one, and it would be a shame to lose this one.

http://www.toreadors.com/

My unusual, obsessiove nature can now be satisfied. I have written the address down and also have a link to the Salon de La Rose.
More journal entries soon, It's snowing in TEXAS!

Journal Entry #4

Thursday, January 27
As we last left our hero James,

he was discovering how darn hard the Program here in Dallas is, sitting in the fabled office of Dr. Frederick Turner.
At the moment, I'm working my way through R.T. Smith's the Cardinal Heart. As some will see the Sight has become much more compact. The Program is working well, and I am doing well. So far so good, I've decided to present a Feature called Poet of the Month. I will homage the poets I'm reading and or love--since I love so many. I'd better go now. My internet was down last time I checked and it irked me something fierce..

Just Yesterday I was looking through all the old thing I had written as an undergraduate. It's really runny how bade some of the things are. here's an example:

I'm going to clean this PROSE poem up because it really isn't a poem. You really do evolve and change.

My Structure

Some people say that man
is made up of flesh and bone.
Nerves and tendons stretching
across a huge vascular highway
of blood and flim down to the very fibers
and molecules of the DNA chain,
that are created by the atoms
that make us all up.
I don't agree.
My structure is different and unique.
If you were to look inside me
you would find out that each man is made differently.
My brain is a central processing unit which continues
to churn out new ideas for stories.
My veins course with crumpled ideas
for features and articles that will never be.
My conscience is a guy in a green truck
with a fourth grade education that often tells me readmy
bible wich is an AP Style Book .
I must read my scripture for the day.
My unconscious mind.

(Isn't that last line the most trite thing you've ever read? At least it look like a poem now, before it was a flat piece of prose. One paragraph.)

It only serves to show you have to write constantly. No wonder some poets are harsh to each other. Be honest. Work Hard.

Dr. Turner was very helpful, and I hope to learn a lot from him. He's an excellent professor. It is snowing in Texas--if but for a brief moment.
I am learning in Dr. Turner's class how much I love Poetry. I thought today about putting a poem up again. I think it's time.

I need to finish the Couplet Assignment.
I'm going to leave you with one of my favorite poems by Donald Justice.

In Bertram's Garden

Jane looks down at her organdy skirt
As if itsomehow were the thing disgraced,
For being there, on the floor, in the dirt,
And she catches it up about her waist,
Smooths it out along one hip,
And pulls it over the crumpled slip.

On the porch, green-shuttered, cool,
Asleep is Bertram, that bronze boy,
Who, having wound her around a spool,
Sends her spinning like a toy
Out to the garden, all alone,
To sit and weep on a bench of stone.

Soon the purple dark will bruise
Lily and bleeding-heart and rose,
And the little Cupid lose&emdash;
Eyes and ears and chin and nose,
And Jane lie down with others soon
Naked to the naked moon.

And a Quote fromBruce Lee.

When Bruce Lee was talking about Kung Fu he said: (and these are his exact words....)

"Well kung fu is originate in china. it is the ancestor of karate and ju jitsu. it's more of a complete system and its more fluid. by that i mean its
more flowing-there is continuity in movement instead of uh, one movement,two movement, and then stop."

"The best example would be a glass of water. why? because, uh, water is the softest substance in the world, but yet it can penetrate the hardest rock, or
anything: granite, you name it.uh, water, also, is insubstantial. by that I mean you cannot grasp hold of it; you cannot punch it and hurt it. so every kung fu man is trying to do that, to be soft like water, and flexible, and adapt itself.* to the opponent."

*Here bruce meant himself, as I am sure you already knew.... Be like the nature of water friends.

"A karate punch is like an iron bar."wham!" a kung fu punch is like an iron chain, with an iron ball attached to the end and it go "WHANG!!!!!" and it hurt inside...."

I still love this quote.

I am going to register my sight at the Register's Domain. Actually, I jsut found out what that means, It apperas to be a place to create Domain Names. Okay, just a few Links. A picture of Sandy, the Golden Boy.

Jim

The Telnet Adress for Marvel Extreme. IMPORTANT FOR LATER.
Marvel Extreme : 216.127.139.7 2008

Journal Entry #5

Thursday, Febrary 10

The Perils and Promises?

It is Friday. The school goes silent, and yet, I am at work, A new journal Entry beckons. Behind my Ken Eliot, a man who has so much time and control is chomping--what is probably a last minute lunch. Ah, graduate school. It is the one true Paradise, that Blake or Stevens must have spoken of&emdash;the place, where Knowledge flows like wine and poetry, the poetry of life&emdash;the bread of angels can touch one. Already, I know that I am a seeker of Knoledge, that I must work for the elusive things that will slip from my grasp. I must write, as I've already written, and even now I've written so much that I feel that there will never be an end&emdash;never a rest, a stop, a place where I can let my little horse(who thinks it must be queer) to rest. I am a writer. Even now, I scan back what I've written. I must make it perfect. The shiny I-mac beckons, the walls breathe to the sound of the computer, the sound of life. The keys clack in procession of the words that will come. I must write.

I am rapidly approaching the deadline for the Gorgias Conference. I will be presenting with Katherine Perry who wrote an excellent little couplet for Fred Turner's class. I may ask her, if I can put it up. I think it would be a good thing.

As a writer I have so many obsessions. One of my obsessions is a fondness for Pulp. Boy I'm into Pulp. check out the neat image I found today. You also never know what you're gonna find out there. Here's an interstign spot with moving Poetry art.

Anyway, I have to go.

More Soon.

James

Journal Entry #6

Thursday, Febrary 15

February is very Cruel.
April is a Breeze.
And New Years Blows!

I'm 27.

I should be thinking about what is important, but at least twice a year I get reall depressed. Valentines Day is the central Day of depression, but even worse is New Years. New Years culminates on a point, a juncture in the lives of most people where the stroke of Midnight signals a new age, a new time when loved ones should hold one another.

All things converge on New Years. If yo've got no special person to kiss, then it really BLOWS. Three Years down and no kiss.

New Years Blows.

Okay, lets see. The word of the day is that I need to send off.

WORD of the Day:

Galliant *LOOK IT UP*

Already, I'm worried about the poetry reading I missed. I had a class, so I'm pretty sure I did the right thing. I hope I'll get asked to read again. I've been neglecting my writing lately, Must get back on the ball. Also, there seems to be some ambiguities. Anyway, I'll have to let the subject go. What else? Hmmmmm.&emdash;must find Girlfriend.

Here's todays Image. Blue Beetle and Booster Gold. I put a new poem up today and fixed the old one. So far so good. Work is hard. Oh yeah, FIX THE WEBPAGE. THE FRONT PAGE.

James

Already I've fixed the page. Katherine Perry, a good friend of mine wrote for Dr. Turner the most extraordinary couplet. I wanted to put this up for you but it seems I've lost my copy. I can only hope she'll send me a copy before the next class.

It's night and class has let out. All around me pubs spring open into a new day and I grumble, growl myself to life. Pubs are open. More soon. James

Journal Entry #7

Thursday, Febrary 15

Already, The day is at an end. Cynthia's Class approaches. I am excited, and thrilled to feel when evening comes. More soon.

James

The day is fast approaching. I've been trying to improve the Codex's look. But after seeing the work of Tim Haynes on Kinetica, I've got to tell you, I'm a little shaken. So far, my sight is getting hit and the Sojourn sight is also of interest to the common Public at the moment. I must update the Planetary Site as well, I've added new links to The Planetary section and links to other areas. At the moment Things are Progressing. Its vastly inmportant that I get to work on my Rhet Site. Time will not wait for me. Jordan Fellow ship went in, and I must send off again. It's of utmost importance!. At the moment the online Journal has faltered. I have a sonnet to write and much to do. I've added new links and porgrammed more and more and more on the MOO. Jan Rune Holmvek gave me a chore yesterday. It looks to me like I will have a lot of work to do, but I will redo the Tutorial on the MOO which will be a great link to my Vitae!

I must begin now, pardon me as I scream.
Andrea Hollander Budy's Making sure there's music. Gardner's review.

Journal Entry #8

Thursday, August 25, 2000

How I got my ass back on track?

Well, I was thinking of this site. I was also thinking about my journal which I hadn't updated in a while. Now was the best time. So I set to work. Damn did I work. I also began to realize I was a packrat. I had all these scribbled names and poems and stuff written in all the crannys and I decided to record them somewhere. Newest and coolest idea was clear, to keep the information rolling and rolling and rolling!

The Generation of 2000 Editor William Holden (This is an excellent anthology of Poetry )

I also wrote down Marc Hairston's email. hairston@utdallas.edu his site: www.nausicaa.net is doing well. Cabridge university press is also doing all kinds of new stuff on Manga. Time for a little image or two.

Tomdal@airmail.net --Tom Carter's Email

Most Recently I became very interested in Anime. It was very interesting to Read Ranma 1/2 and I began to develop a new obsession in a sense. i was not alone and the more I read the more I was encouraged and I began to enjoy. In fact, a very distinguished professor is writing many articles about Animae and I'm looking forward to writing my own sort of stuff. This will all have to wait however until I finish my Archie Bunker article. Cambridge University Press has many books on Popular Culture in Japan and one article came out recently "The Four Faces of Young Girls in Japanese Manga." You can also take a Survey of Animae if you go to Altavista. Also St. Martin's Press published a book called Anima: From Akira to Mononoke.Anyway, with all that in mind, I'm trying to set up and clean out all this paper. I have floating poems that I keep for now reason and I want to put them somewhere. For now, I'm putting them here.

Ruben Dario "That which is Fatal." "Fatality"

Leonard Cohen "My Mind, My Mind, My Mind."

Leonard Cohen "Poem about Marianna."

I think I've started to reform this Online Journal again. Hopefully I can keep it up. Let's hope. Poems Galore! :)

My good friend Daniel Bartlett took this image and wrote a fairly great story about it. You should check his story out. Let's see where the Website's journal can convince us to go today. So far, I've spent a lot of time workingon my website. I'm fairly pleased with my progress. I've also jumped ahead and started work on other websites. Comicopia, is one I hope to get finished soon. It's nice to write this journal and upgrade beyond what I was supposed to have learned this summer. So far, Ronnie and my friends have helped me put the Outsiders Sight together and it's coming along nicely. We hope this sort of work continues. I did the work I was supposed to and I'm carefully continuiing along these lines. I feel a real sense of acomplishment to be making it all come together and it is, it really is. So far, the sight has worked and so fgar I've learned a great bit about creative burtsts of energy. We are apprachig weekend shut down facts. I do so deeply love to spend my weekends with Meshell. She brings me eternal happiness.

So far, so good, the schedule continues and I too continue. Without further ado, I need to moive ahead to some other project before my hands begin to wander. i am enjoying the freedom of being a technical assistant, and I also have a lot of time to write as well as learn about the macs. I've preposed to Tim Haynes how nice it will be to work on something for the Moo, and he and I are at it like Gangbusters. No other news. Need to work on Danny's site and other things will evenutally come along. More soon.

jimmy

Every time I think I might be done, something comes along to make me want to write more. Just yesterday I found this great gif. It obviously comes from Lingua Moo. I thought that maybe I could do something with it, so I guess, for now it's a link to Lingua Moo, a place I teach. i've embroiled myself in several projects and most recently learned to use Flash Animations. Some of the new ones can be seen at the following Links:

The first flash Animation I did was for my girlfriend. You can see it by going here. It is a very basic and there are problems but I am proud of it. The other Flash Animation was done for my Comicopia sight. I'm immensely proud of both of these. I think they clearly mary a new moment in my evoluttion, since flash is where everything is going well. Except for a problem I just discovered.

SOJOURN MAGAZINE | Submissions Policy | Alan Moore's Sight

or http://www.alanmoorefansite.com/old_site/index.html

Journal Entry #9

Thursday, Decembert 6, 2000

Okay? The Semester is coming to a close?

This is one of those blurr days. People move around the campus, like school is still moving and people look at me, like I will know the answer of where the professor's are. I don't know. I don't even know why I am still here.

I just am. Perhaps it is to clean out my mailboxes. And so I do. I keep too much email.

Today's first piece of email, is the pictures a good friend of mine sent me from A-Kon.

Take a look if you like:

More pictures of the costumes at AKon (and these are better quality than the digital ones I showed you yesterday.

http://www.phoenixanime.com/akon00/akon00a.htm

Marc

2nd e-mail

My good friend (Gwen Namura) sent me a Jpeg of K'un-Lun "They Mystical Dimensional Kingdom where Iron Fist Comes from.

3rd email

Friendship Poem

For those tired of the usual "friendship" poems, here is a touch of reality.

When you are sad ... ... I will get you drunk and help you plot revenge against the scum-sucking bastard who made you sad. When you are blue ... ... I'll try to dislodge whatever's choking you.

When you smile ... ... 'll know you finally got laid. When you are scared ... ... I will tease you about it every chance I get. When you are worried ... ... I will tell you horrible stories about how much worse it could be and to quit whining. When you are confused ... ... I will use little words to explain it to your dumb ass. When you are sick ... ... Stay away from me until you're well again, I don't want whatever you have. When you fall ... ... I will point and laugh at your clumsy ass. This is my oath ... ... I pledge till the end. Why, you may ask? ... ... Because you're my friend. *** 4th e-mail Sorry for the late reply. No, I'm sorry I have no graphic. The only scanner I own is a fax machine. I'd have to tear a page out of a comic to scan. (Oh the humanity!!) But the Millenium edition of Whiz Comics # 1 would have Golden Arrow's origin. You might still be able to find it in stores. To see the Old West version of Golden Arrow, check out Americomics's Best of

the West reprint series. Try www.americomics.com then, if they are still

under construction, follow the links.

Happy hunting.

Jack Holt

Journal Entry #11

Thursday, December 8, 2000

After extensively trying to remove every email, I could, I hit a wall. Yes a wall. I keep too many damn emails. Then I got a crazy idea.

For the longest time, I've been keeping a list. A list of the books I've read.

The list is incomplete, but I work on it every day. I have a big ass list.

Here is some stuff I must have saw as importantant. Who knows what goes through my head somtimes.

My First Webchapbook was printed here: http://www.rescueme.f9.co.uk/wordofmouth/mainmenu.html.

In class, Dr. Schulte recommended an article called "

Ways of Seeing" by John Berger. I will have to see if i can find the article.

HERE is another link and i don't know where it goes.

http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/original.html

Some more links?

http://www.egroups.com/group/ZH-logs

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There will be more real journal entries soon. Jimmy