From: bronax
To: John
Subject: Idea
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:33:53 -0800
X-Priority: 3
Sign up for Twitter, and send yourself some Tweets.
Paragraph one liners as fake Cliff notes for your novel, then read them and
write thoughts to put in your ideas, or someone elses and you, to show literary
work developing in three or more dimensions of human consideration and action,
with fluid sweeps in time, like movie Last Year At Marienbad.
George
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:15:56 -0800
From: bronax
Subject: Telephone call to unknown number
To: John
X-Priority: 3
i am not sure I have your tel number. Thanks for the call.
I am working on learning the non intuitive new cell phone I
got when I lost the old one.
In my entire life, I
have now lost two important things:
a. My
Passport, following my return from Canada with former girl
friend to celebrate her parents' 50th wedding anniversary.
b. My cell
phone. What will be next?
Everything.
I am watching the Star Wars Story, about the birth of the
male, the hero ( at puberty), who realizes, if he wants to mature,
suddenly that his Father is smaller, more worn, and less wonderful
than he
formerly thought. I make these realizations and do a lot of
crying at these long buried realizations:
a. My Father
allowed me close only in death. He is buried
in one
of my court suits, as he possessed no suit when he
died.
b. My Mother,
seperated early on from her parents, alone
in a
foreign country, speaking a foreign language
stood by
me and took care of me until I learned to do it
for
myself. She finally told me that when I was a baby,
and got
whimpery and fussy, she used to pass her hand
through
the crib, so I could curl around it, just like my
cat Raya
does today on my couch. To some extent, I have
prohibited my cat from growing up.
c. My
children can never grow up until I let them go.
I got your call. Thanks for thinking of me. Why cannot you not send emails? Computer down?
Soon we will all have web cams and be able to make virtual
visits and social and business calls. Technology has speeded up life.
I will meet with your brother soon. We origninally picked
super bowl sunday, but will pick another date so we can watch the game
. Probably we won't watch the game together. I usually watch
it with
one of my old law workmates, Richard, who lives in
Long Beach with his teacher wife and 5 cats. He has a sister in Cleveland, and a Dad in a old folk's home there. We are all
headed for the old folks home. What's your plans?
George
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:17:49 -0800
From: bronax
Subject: Bookstore | Blurb
To: "John
X-Priority: 3
Check out this, and LULU.com for self publishing at reasonable price. Happy New Year. barely 40 degress here, and clear. Not raining. Our planned xmass went to hell: grandparents, the mother of
my ex wife had heart attack. Daughter calls me and says stay off rain
sodden freeways, so
I stay here. Parents of her husband are very sick with flu, and not wanting to expose the new baby, stayed
home.
My big tasks for today: taking shower, and visiting Costco
to pick up some canned cat food and some fish fillets. Mostly watching tv and
reading. Lots of people weathered out, like those in Tennessee,
buried by slag. Near here, Corona, divorced man goes nuts and shoots up and
burns up grandparents of ex wife at their house, then returns home to
brother's house in Sylmar and shoots himself. Divorce not for wimps. I
barely survived mine, but I had good sense not to hurt anyone.
George
From: bronax
To: John
Subject: Re: George: back in Austin
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:23:24 -0800
X-Priority: 3
Nice compliment.
Good luck with your new adventure.
My computer insists on dating my emails, Jan. 1, 2002, so
they appear at the BOTTOM of your email list. Look for them
there.
Soon you will be a top writer and commentator. Design an on line writing and information research for your students,
as your first media project. Mr.
Academic. Like Mr. Moto of old movie serials.
I still think Twilight Zone episodes are best on TV.
I am fated, to be dated. Its in the genes, or jeans.
George B
Mr. Bronax
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:23:31 -0800
From: bronax
Subject: Self Publishing - Lulu.com
To: John
X-Priority: 3
Publish your book, or an outline of it, or shortened
Reader's Digest Condensed Books type thingie at Lulu.com
George
From: bronax
To: John
Subject: Updates
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:26:07 -0800
X-Priority: 3
This has worked for me in time of economic trouble:
1. Look to another work area you hadn't before
considered. Don't have to
actually switch careers, just the looking is good.
2. Find some poor people
food banks and cruise in once a week or
month and pick up some free food. Check Food Banks on internet.
3. Buy
only things on sale.
4. Check out thrift stores. I bought suits in one in
Hollywood for years, then had my local
tailor fit them to me for $35.00. Cheaper than a new suit. I wore out all my suits going to
courts.
5. Change your behavior in some regards.
6. Don't eat out.
7. Rent
movies, don't go to any of them.
8. Get familiar with your tv, especially PBS
stations.
9. Take some free tours with the family, dropping off your business
cards quietly during the
trip: manufacturing companies, tv studios, anything you can find. Internet should help here.
10. Look for dented can specials.
11. Learn to cook Spam.
12. Replay your
student life style, where anything you can use is ok.
George
From: bronax
To: John
Subject: Inner beings
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:27:28 -0800
X-Priority: 3
i have spent most of my life in a state of dread. This is a
result of inadequate fathering as a child.
We all have sometings to work on.........
George
From: bronax
To: John
Subject: Reference
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:28:11 -0800
X-Priority: 3
Statement was reference to your last several communications.
Too accepting of status quo........
I am still struggling with my own coping mechanisms,
fantasy, politeness, smart talking, feeble attempts at self protection.
I think we all have some such history adopted when we were
children and powerless and ignorant of other means. We just used what
worked at the time, then made it a habit.
With shrinking economy I have concern your bosses will
compare your salary and benefits with those of a beginner, and give the
job to a beginner. What happens to the actual students probably won't be more
important than reducing their budgets, which is their performance
measurement.
George
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