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paul

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About Me

"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."-Bukowski

My Interests

I drink a lot of Pabst Blue Ribbon. I watch football. I used to have late night drunken fist-fights with my fucking roomate, but he moved to L.A. and the guy who took his place is kind of a mamby-pamby bitch. It's not his fault he bruises easily, he has an iron deficiency. I read books, but I only like the ones with pictures. I like to talk politics in bars and fight the people who disagree with me. Lately I am a seething ball of hate.

I'd like to meet:

Under achievers. Drunks. Losers. Lunatics. No goods. Ne'er do wells. Bi-polar figure skaters. Epileptic bus drivers. Schizophrenic coal miners who suffer from extreme, but not always unwarranted, attacks of paranoia. Drifters. Outcasts. People who only fit in with people who don't fit in. Former cheerleaders with a heroin problem. Freaks. Hairys. Dykes. Fairies. People who are aware enough and brave enough to realize that almost everything they have ever been told by their government, school, church, and parents is complete bullshit. People who know that Horatio Alger was a liar. People who realize how much of a scam college is. People who realize that most academics know almost nothing about the real world. People who are not obsessed with the idea that everything must have a purpose. Bastards. Misfits. Midgets. Orangutans, and Henry Chinaski.

Music:

Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Rolling Stones, Black Crowes, Neil Young, David Bowie, Hank Williams, Ray Charles, Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Motown, Bob Dylan, John Coltrane, Wynton Marsalis, Charlie Parker, Frank Zappa, Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings

Movies:

Almost every American movie that is widely released anymore is a total piece of shit.

Television:

I have a tv. It doesn't get turned on much. I keep hearing that in the year 2000 and something I'll need to buy a high definition tv or get some sort of doo-hickey to make my old one work. Actually I think I would rather just stop turning my tv on forever at that point.

Books:

19th century Russian literature, the great Beat writers, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, too many to list really. Chuck Palahniuk is NOT a great writer. He is nothing but a Kurt Vonnegut wanna be hack. Read something real.

My Blog

Circling the Drain

   Note:  This is pure FICTION.  Just a little messing around on my part.    The jokes have always come as quickly and easily as the call for more drinks.  We l...
Posted by paul on Thu, 08 May 2008 08:39:00 PST

Opportunity Lost

Author's Note: "What you are about to read is the worst kind of sentimental bullshit.""I want you to come on, come on down Sweet Virginia, I want you come on, honey child, I beg you. . I want you co...
Posted by paul on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:19:00 PST

An Unexpecteed Encounter

Several years ago I was on a cross country trip to reconnect with an old friend out in L.A. and I stopped for the night just outside of St.Louis. Just around the corner from my motel was an ambiguous ...
Posted by paul on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:12:00 PST

Attn: friends, family, aquiantances, bands, and fake profiles for dead writers

The time has come for me to make some adjustments, shift gears, or change direction if you will. I've decided to make a new career move. From now on I will be focusing all of my energy on a series of...
Posted by paul on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:30:00 PST

Your help is needed.

I normally use this thing called My Space for fun and recreation.  Occasionally I might throw up a little story I have written for the benefit of you, my friends.  Other times I take advanta...
Posted by paul on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:17:00 PST

Dancing with Detroit (An Education of Sorts)

The first memory to hit me when I woke up was driving 105 mph down I-75 in my beat up '91 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.  The sun was rising on my left and I could hear my roommate Clyde groaning so...
Posted by paul on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:35:00 PST

In Memoriam

The written word means more to me than most people. Because of this fact, there have been a few writers who have significantly impacted my life. Kurt Vonnegut is one of those writers. In fact, he was ...
Posted by paul on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:09:00 PST

Roots

When I was 12 years old my parents took my sister and I on a little family camping trip at Sleeper State Park outside of beautiful Caseville, Michigan. On the way in I noticed a little half-assed look...
Posted by paul on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:11:00 PST

The Truth About Valentine's Day

I grew up thinking of Valentine's Day the same way everyone else did.  It's a special day where people who love each other, or at least say they do, show that love by buying each other cheap gree...
Posted by paul on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:55:00 PST

Myspace Bait and Switch

I live in one of the best neighborhoods in Hamtramck.  A friend of mine, who lives down the street from me, even goes so far as to refer to our section of town as the "suburbs of Hamtramck." ...
Posted by paul on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:29:00 PST