DoctorofGonzo

Rant time with the Doctor:

When did "she" become the gender-less pronoun? It annoys the crap out of me because "she" is female to my mind, and to the minds of anyone who completed middle school English and Grammar. Whatever happened to a good ole "they"? "They" is a wonderful word; it can be singular or plural, and best of all: it's genderless! But no. Writers of all types spent far too long using "he" as the basic pronoun, when we weren't using "they", and now women have had their outcry and now every single type of person ever written about will always seem female at first glance.

Thank you very much for your feminism. I'm going to go pick up my new Bible and read about God now; she's such a nice lady.

-Luke S. Donavan, Esq.

I think I've lost my writing juju. At least temporarily, because I know very well the proving grounds of the mighty gornak- the beast from which whose scales a mighty witch doctor can create the marvelous remedy of writing juju. The hunt shall not be an easy one; the gornak is a cautious and paranoid creature by necessity. It is only drawn into the open by its most delicious of prey: the tellnos. The tellnos is a slippery little creature, capable of escaping any but the most secure of cages. Fortunately, I know exactly the form of contraption to contain a tellnos in: experimentalist writing.

Thus, to set the trap for my gornak, for mine it will be once I have pounced and devoured its very essence, I need something from you, my faithful readers who have put up with my nonsense long enough to read this far. I've been planning this a long time anyway: a 3-piece work with no conscious action taking place, purely a vivid description of landscapes. The theme will be memory, in that I have to describe these scenes purely from what I remember about them. The first is a place I know all too well, the second a place I never want to go back to, and third a place I've never been to and I'd like to go to sometime in the future.

I've chosen the first 2 and have an idea for the third, but would like to hear ideas for a possible place for #3. So, tell me a place you'd like to go that you've never been before. Hurry, the gornak must feed.

A boy with an audio program has made me a theme song. A theme song. To say the least I was honored, and a bit curious as to what would be produced by someone I hardly have spoken 10 words to on the internet. He called me a dark character, and I began to wonder how long he'd been stalking me.

I am highly amused. To wit - Inferus Solum:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArNKBI…

And so did many other people when I told them. I said I would be writing my Music Apperciation research paper in 1 day. 8 pages, doing all the research and writing it, all in less than 24 hours.

Eat it, mofos.

Well, the Venician conquest of the Italian Alps went over only half as good as I had hoped. Due to a vision from God, the Pope saw fit to excommunicate the Milanese and Holy Romans, which gave my main royal army enough time to march a holy crusade against Milan, killing their King and bringing the Milanese as a whole back into the catholic fold. And then, in another fell swoop, my Prince's adopted son took a small army and crushed the Holy Roman contingent in Bologna, along with their precious little Emporer and one of his generals, also restoring them to the Pope's good grace with the death of their heretical leader. It was then a simple thing to march against the rebels in Florence and secure an alliance with the Pope in Rome as the Florencian countryside was ransacked and pillaged. Then those damn tratiourous Sicilians marched against the weakly guarded Bologna, breaking an old alliance established in the time of Venice's first king. Perhaps that city would have fared better had I not sent a large force of troops to the east, as a precaution against the Byzantine scum.