Re: "His Unbrilliant Career" or "A Context for Posts"
citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Thu, 07 Oct 1999 10:22:59 -0700
Fellow fishes,
Just logged on and read some not-so-fresh tripe posted yesterday by a geezer
who goes by--*what kind of name is *that*--"citycabn" and who not-so-slyly
invokes his upcoming 50th birthday. (If he gets there, remind me, and I'll
send him a couple of canes.)
But it did get me thinking about the inhabitants of our fish pond. As the
good ole U.S. of A. is going whole hog with its census for the upcoming
big-bang year of 2000, I propose a little census of our own.
Granted, some of you ancients--you know who I mean, yes, you, the over-40
crowd--might be a *little* embarrassed, but hey, face it, your lives are
*over*. All of us safely under Jack Benny's (yeah, we know who he is)
perennial age of 39 are breathing sighs of relief. Many of us fishes are
taking huge, grateful breaths, knowing we are decades safe from *that*
disaster.
So. In short, I propose, with each new post, each fish, *once*, appends at
the end of her or his post: birth date (don't forget the *year*) and
present city of location.
I'll start if off: 12/22/81, Westport, CT, USA. And as an added
revelation, I live with my dog.
--Frederick
P.S. Sorry about that typo, it's 80.
-----Original Message-----
From: citycabn <citycabn@gateway.net>
To: bananafish <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 9:49 AM
Subject: "His Unbrilliant Career" or "A Context for Posts"
>At the late age of 19, he graduated from penis to pen.
>
>By 24, his assets included two rejection slips and a Master's thesis of 22
>anorexic poems.
>
>Just shy of his 30th birthday, he quartered and tossed all of his
>manuscripts.
>
>The next 17 years were spent sans literature--one might call them an
>extended lost weekend of manic-depression.
>
>At 47, he began again.
>
>He exhibits an inordinate--*some* might say, unhealthy--interest in the
>writings and lives of J.D. Salinger, Rainer Maria Rilke, Samuel Beckett and
>Franz Kafka.
>
>On December 22, 2000, his apprenticeship should end. ("Apprenticeship"
>being defined as writing for seven years, 350 days a year, with two weeks
>off for good behavior.) It will be his 50th birthday.
>
>He better get cracking.
>
>