bring out your dead ~

[lookingland]

thought on dead communities:

i apparently belong to a lot of dead livejournal communities.

i occasionally post to them, hoping to rouse some discussion, but not much has been happening. i leave them on my list because it's not like they clog up my friends' page or anything.

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thought on a dead person for the day:

harriet beecher-stowe ~ earnest and ill-informed reformer or deliberate propaganist? what is the responsibility of writers to tell the truth?

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things that kill:

once you've had good quality tea, there's just no going back to celestial seasonings, is there? bleh.

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dead projects worth resurrecting?:

just how long does something have to sit in a closet rotting before you declare it dead. much as i hold onto a number of very old and very abandoned projects, i still consider most of them to be viable. but i do have a handful of truly dead ideas that will never see the light of day. should i destroy all evidence of them? does anyone else have a horror of the thought of work being published posthumously which should never see the light of day?

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dead ends:

i need a hair trim really bad. this northern weather is wreaking havoc on my tresses.

: D

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Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means
of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life,
of making it tolerable and acceptable.

Wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well.

~ Socrates

Comments

[akirad.livejournal.com]

Communities are weird aren't they? It's a bit like trying to build a fire when you're camping - it begins with a spark, and a flame, but there's a lot of effort to keep it going, until there comes a magic moment when it can survive by itself and you can relax, sit back and enjoy it.

Yeah, that's what I think! :)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

good analogy!

but even when the flame seems to be burning steady, if you don't continue to feed it, it will eventually die.

: o p

[magdalene74.livejournal.com]

Dont i know it.. ive started several communities that seemed like a good idea at the time, but with no one feeding the fire or fanning the flames but me, heck i curled up under a blanket and said to heck with it.
With Love,
Marie

once you've had good quality tea, there's just no going back to celestial seasonings, is there? bleh

[la-vita-nuova.livejournal.com]

Seriously.

Have you ever bought anything from the Tea Source? http://www.teasource.com/
They are in MN. SO Good!

Re: once you've had good quality tea, there's just no going back to celestial seasonings, is there?

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

i went there looking for something special (a white tea) and didn't find it (there's a place near campus). i asked them about it, but they looked at me funny ~ ha! they do have some other nice things, though.

i might try some of their other stuff, but at the moment i'm addicted to David Rio's white la france pear tea (http://www.davidrio.com/product_details.aspx?productId=18). oy vey ~ good stuff. unfortunately no one here carries it, so i have my cousin sending me some from houston ~ hahahaha!

: D

[utter-scoundrel.livejournal.com]

" should i destroy all evidence of them? "

Never.

Signed,
A Lifelong Packrat

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha ~ hey, i still have the book you sent me!

[utter-scoundrel.livejournal.com]

Er...which one?

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

oy vey ~ don't you remember? The Wicked Die Last ~ ? a sherlockian mystery with supernatural critters ~

: D

[utter-scoundrel.livejournal.com]

Oh. I thought you meant a book by another writer or that Preacher graphic novel I sent you.

"The Wicked Die Last" ha-ha! What a crap title! What was I thinking...?

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

everything in context, though. i mean come on ~ you were like 17 when you wrote that!

: D

I liked your entry today! =)

[astamaria.livejournal.com]

i occasionally post to them, hoping to rouse some discussion, but not much has been happening. i leave them on my list because it's not like they clog up my friends' page or anything.
Same here! I really regret that the catholicwriters group in particular is so dead.

once you've had good quality tea, there's just no going back to celestial seasonings, is there? bleh.
No, there isn't! Every once in awhile, someone will offer me a cup of celestial seasonings or worse--lipton's! I usually quite politely turn them down, all the while quaking in my boots. I'm afraid I've turned into quite the tea snob.

just how long does something have to sit in a closet rotting before you declare it dead. much as i hold onto a number of very old and very abandoned projects, i still consider most of them to be viable.
I think you should hold onto them. There's no telling when inspiration might strike. Someday you might want to use the idea, but in a revised form. If nothing else, you could at least see where you screwed up the first time and try not to make the same mistake.

Then again, this advice is coming from a self-professed packrat!

does anyone else have a horror of the thought of work being published posthumously which should never see the light of day?

All the time! I always picture some future scholar pouring over my unfinished work, making comments along the lines of: "Ah, yes, this unfortunately was one of her weakest works. The plot is terrible, the characters are weak..." (Of course, this fantasy also goes along with the "famous author" daydream: the one where high schoolers are reading my work along with Twain, Dickens, the Brontes, and the like.)

And, of course, I've always been nervous that my descendents will find my diary after I'm dead. I can just hear it now: "Great-Grandma did WHAT???" =)

Re: I liked your entry today! =)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

Same here! I really regret that the catholicwriters group in particular is so dead. ~ yeah ~ that one in particular is sad sad sad. foo.

I'm afraid I've turned into quite the tea snob. ~ i think i have too, though maybe if offered i'd be less picky? dunno.

I always picture some future scholar pouring over my unfinished work, making comments along the lines of: "Ah, yes, this unfortunately was one of her weakest works. The plot is terrible, the characters are weak..." ~ oy vey! the horror! people there are reasons some work was never published! i always cringe when they unearth some long-dead writer's manuscript and then print it and the sharks go to town. of course, i'd be dead, so it wouldn't really matter. hahahaha ~

(Of course, this fantasy also goes along with the "famous author" daydream: the one where high schoolers are reading my work along with Twain, Dickens, the Brontes, and the like.) ~ well naturally! hahahaha ~

And, of course, I've always been nervous that my descendents will find my diary after I'm dead. I can just hear it now: "Great-Grandma did WHAT???" =) ~ well there's no question in my mind that i'll destroy my diaries and correspondance before i die. absolutely nothing in there for prying eyes!

: D

[codepoet.livejournal.com]

That's about my attitude with a bunch of my friends-list - I generally don't unfriend people unless they're filling my friends-page with stuff I don't want to read, and I've come across quite a few who've simply stopped updating over the past... um, 6-or-so years of membership. eek.

[sparowe]

I've got a few communities like that on my list... one I posted to until I literally felt self-concious about it, and went back to lurking. It was just weird.