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"...I think the trouble with America Literature is it doesn't know who it is. It thinks it's Henry Miller writing to Lawrence Durrell and then again it thinks it's James Baldwin telephoning Norman Mailer, and then it thinks it's Jack Kerouac subsisting on Coca-Colas on a cross-country ride to nowhere... Actually American literature isn't anybody phoning to anybody or anybody writing about anybody. American literature is the woman in the courtroom who, finding herself undefended on a charge, asked,'Isn't anybody on my side?' Its also the phrase I used that was once used in court of a kid who, on being sentenced to death, said, 'I knew I'd never get to be twenty-one anyhow.'"By: Nelson Algren

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

They all passed on---sigh

Music:

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Movies:

By: Leonard Cohen

Books:

"Let me tell you what a writer is. A writer takes comprehensive views, holds large convictions, makes wide generalizations. A writer's not English, Mexican, or American. A writer's not a woman nor a man. A writer's not Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Muslim, nor snake worshipper. To local standards of right and wrong a writer's civilly indifferent. In the virtues, a writer's concerned only with general expediency. A writer doesn't waste time focusing on fixed moral principles that aren't yet before the court of conscience. Happiness discloses itself to a writer as the end and purpose of life, and art and love are the only means to a writer's happiness. A writer is free of all doctrines, theories, etiquettes, and politics. To a writer, a continent doesn't seem long, nor a century wide. And a writer has ever present consciousness that this is a world of...fools and rogues, blind with superstition, tormented with envy, consumed with vanity, selfish, false, cruel, cursed with illusions, and frothing mad."-Ambrose Bierce

My Blog

Monday Morning

Today is my first day of work. Wish me luck. I'm not as nervous as I thought I would be.    I'll update later.      THE DOLDRUM
Posted by Doug on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:14:00 PST

Epi- Mordial (A Dream)

    This morning a strange figure approached me and said he studied Epi-mordial. This figured told me that I was in fact in the midst of this study. Then I found myself in a car driving...
Posted by Doug on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:58:00 PST

Hymns from Patterson

From my window- So low- So low- My mothers words echo through unfinished songs and poems. From my window- So low- So low- Airplanes soar greater, Birds with color decorate, Mail man delivers news, Pal...
Posted by Doug on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:34:00 PST

A must read

Read Robert Arellano's Sunshine69. You can read it here at this site.   http://www.sunshine69.com/69_Start.html   ...
Posted by Doug on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:19:00 PST

Salmon Omelette

    This morning Jacinthe made me a Salmon Omelette. First time having any kind of fish in the morning. It was actually good. Had a strong cup of coffee. A cigarette would've completed ...
Posted by Doug on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:25:00 PST

Unemployed smoking watching rain fall

Stood around the Job Service building waiting for my ride to come pick me up. Saw a middle age woman leave her five year old in the car while it was running. She looked tired from a decade long party ...
Posted by Doug on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:41:00 PST

A music Festival in Seward Alaska

Friday afternoon September 22  Left Anchorage Alaska sometime in the afternoon with no clue to my destination. All I knew was that I was going to attend a musical festival somewhere in Seward Ala...
Posted by Doug on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 02:38:00 PST

Day 2 of Anchorage Alaska

Been walking around the campus of UAA. Every face I see reminds me of a face I saw at my last school. The beauty of youth and all its shortcomings are worth more than a Vanderbilt fortune.  ...
Posted by Doug on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:48:00 PST

Read this fucking Blog you bastards!

I'm moving to Anchorage Alaska in a couple of days. If you want to find me use this silly little device called myspace to contact me. Some of you will use it to tell me that I'm a dick head, or to wis...
Posted by Doug on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 04:24:00 PST

Urinating in Art Alley

Took a walk around Rapid City some days ago looking for old friends. I knew that I wouldn't find a thing in those downtown streets except an unnamed folk singer who is named after a purple rock. ( arc...
Posted by Doug on Fri, 26 May 2006 04:12:00 PST