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william

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About Me

Whoo-oop! I 'm the old original iron-jawed, brass-mounted, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of Arkansas!--Look at me! I 'm the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the small-pox on the mother's side! Look at me! I take nineteen alligators and a bar'l of whiskey for breakfast when I 'm in robust health, and a bushel of rattlesnakes and a dead body when I 'm ailing! I split the everlasting rocks with my glance, and I squench the thunder when I speak! Whoo-oop! Stand back and give me room according to my strength! Blood's my natural drink, and the wails of the dying is music to my ear! Cast your eye on me, gentlemen!--and lay low and hold your breath, for I 'm bout to turn myself loose! Whoo-oop! bow your neck and spread, for the kingdom of sorrow's a-coming! Hold me down to the earth, for I feel my powers a-working! whoo-oop! I'm a child of sin, don't let me get a start! Smoked glass, here, for all! Don't attempt to look at me with the naked eye, gentlemen! When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales! I scratch my head with the lightning, and purr myself to sleep with the thunder! When I'm cold, I bile the Gulf of Mexico and bathe in it; when I'm hot I fan myself with an equinoctial storm; when I'm thirsty I reach up and suck a cloud dry like a sponge; when I range the earth hungry, famine follows in my tracks! Whoo-oop! Bow your neck and spread! I put my hand on the sun's face and make it night in the earth; I bite a piece out of the moon and hurry the seasons; I shake myself and crumble the mountains! Contemplate me through leather--don't use the naked eye! I'm the man with a petrified heart and biler-iron bowels! The massacre of isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the destruction of nationalities the serious business of my life! The boundless vastness of the great American desert is my enclosed property, and I bury my dead on my own premises! Whoo-oop! bow your neck and spread, for the pet child of calamity's a-coming!

My Interests

thugs, lives worth living, tolstoy, the ocean,industrial buildings, tunnels, bridges, media piracy, baby insects, fireworks, mood swings, pens, waterfalls, rain, fresh fruit, rationality, order, bulgaria, utilitarianism, ice cream, snow, frogs, smoothies, tea, efficiency, digital things, my parents, arguing, marx, contemplation, longing, appalachian angels.

I'd like to meet:

[email protected]

Music:

goodie mob, sean na na, loren mazzacane connors, andreas tilliander, july skies, arbol, arkitekchur, kurt ralske, doron sadja, stephan mathieu, christopher willits, akira rabelais, vladislav delay, murcof, stars of the lid, snd, takagi masakatsu, tomorrowland, transient waves, warmdesk, yellow6, collette carter, pimmon, alva noto, donnacha constello, windy and carl, alog, electric birds, rafael toral, azusa plane, arve henriksen, montgolfier brothers, telfon tel aviv, keith fullerton whitman, freeway, shuttle 358, gravenhurst, graham, camera obscura, aislers set, 6ths/magnetic fields, gypsophile, softies, mirah, microphones, rebeeca pearcy, lois, iron and wine, shins, ted leo, brokeback, pas/cal, lots of other things but i'm tired of listing.

Movies:

belly, happy together, girl on the bridge, fallen angels, kikujiro, new jersey drive, closely watched trains, before night falls, juice, days of being wild, taste of cherry, do the right thing, general idi amin dada, hoop dreams, love and anarchy, paper moon, american movie, in the mood for love, ratcatcher, withnail and i, mona lisa, unbearable lightness of being, as tears go by

Television:

NBA

Books:

meditations on first philosophy, the theory of the leisure class, distinction, the adventures of huckleberry finn, confederacy of dunces, something happened, good soldier sveck, invisible man, anna karenin, other voices other rooms, one moonlit night, dead souls, dubliners, of human bondage, the heart is a lonely hunter, all the sinclair lewis books, all flannery o connor, lots of american realism, lots of other things.

Heroes:

arenas, mill, tolstoy, veblen, mom

My Blog

new contact info

william mcdonald 1512 se 16th ave apt 105 portland, or 97214 5032353213
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

pictures from a trip to teh seaside and some from around the house and town

http://www.williamraymondmcdonald.com/portland/
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

ramona falls

laura and i hiked here a few weeks ago http://www.williamraymondmcdonald.com/ramonafalls/
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

last pictures from europe

at http://williamraymondmcdonald.com/europe2/
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

european travels pictures

from my past 3 weeks. the order is something along the lines of amsterdam, barcelona, madrid, paris, berlin, trier, cologne, luxembourg, strasbourg, wiltshire http://williamraymondmcdonald.com/eur...
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

baby pictures

i just came across these links to old pictures of me at various ages. enjoy. http://home.ec.rr.com/williedigital/will big.jpg http://home.ec.rr.com/williedigital/will kid.jpg http://home.ec.rr.co...
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

snow day and north wales pictures

really really pretty so you should really look http://williamraymondmcdonald.com/snow&northwales/
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

even more pictures

these are from my recent ten day excursion to palermo, sicily and various places in belgium. http://williamraymondmcdonald.com/sicily&belgium/
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

more picutres

cardiff, bath, and around my flat http://williamraymondmcdonald.com/bath/
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

pictures

i have managed to make an online photo gallery. it's basically every picture on my computer with no labels or dates, but it was the best i can do. http://williamraymondmcdonald.com/pictures/
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST