this is great news
3:57 p.m. - 03.06.03
wow wow wow wow wow!!!!!!
i just got great news. i sent a piece of my writing to a local arts/entertainment/culture newsletter at 11 a.m.
i already got back a response:
"This is so awesome. Thanks for sending it."
wow - i'm going to be published. the newsletter is 5,000 email addys strong. yes, i'm pretty psyched. the submission request was for any writing from someone in our city about our city. this is what i sent in:
We headed for the club where we called home The music was real and raw, celebrating the lives of each person there drinking a Pabst and nodding their head to the consoling drum beats. To the uncaring ear the music just all sounded the same. We cared about it more than religion. It was a classic roller coaster ride that will close if it�s not for the rusty blue-collar kids who have nothing else to do but to take the tickets. It was a section of land that corporate America is dying to get its hands on and pepisfy into a teen consumer orgy. To us it was a favorite book about to be banned, then burned at 451 degrees.. This was one of the last places on earth where you knew that old blue jeans were real old blue jeans; bought at a thrift instead of a mall. No one asks for your sign or to upsize a goddam thing. For 10 bucks you can escape behind the lights and hide in the shadow of a dieing generation of proletariat children. It was the cheapest shortcut to salvation I knew.
i'll have reason to celebrate this weekend!
this is great news - 03.06.03
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