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Archive for January, 2005



Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
Back to my word fetish

Today let’s talk about the words “cum” and “come”

I really dislike the way the word “cum” looks on the page or screen. It looks tacky to me. There are other words - seed, semen, jism, spunk, sperm - but I think spunk sounds like something a teenaged boy would say and jism isn’t a word that in any way inspires sexy thoughts. So that leaves, seed, semen, sperm and cum.

Recently, I had to use cum because that’s what EC prefers. Come is the verb, cum is the noun. I don’t like it but I did it, partly because I realize it’s my own issue and partly because you can only use seed in very specific circumstances and that goes for semen as well.

Perhaps I’ll get used to it, that and cunt. Maybe I should just use both words as often as I can to see what happens.

Monday, January 3rd, 2005
Ah Rejection…

So my novella wasn’t chosen for the Cavemen anthologies for this year. Well, I think I’d be more depressed if the list they did chose weren’t all such very good writers. And I really didn’t have a lot of time so realistically, I know it wasn’t my best work.

I’ve had worse rejections (one magazine editor called my work trite, which was shitty and unnecessarily mean) and as I’ve just finished a round of edits on a book EC is publishing the sting is much easier to bear (that and again, the fact that I know the people who were chosen are all really good).

Sunday, January 2nd, 2005
You must go here…

You must visit this guy’s website and buy his record. He’s genius and hilarious. The most clever website I’ve seen in a very long time.

http://www.billyharveymusic.com/