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Saturday, 26 July 2008 02:10:59
I had a question about why I write pre-war Mal. And my answer was.... "I don't know, the stuff just pops into my head". I was thinking on this while I took my evening walk on the historic Pamlico River in eastern NC while listening to a mishmash of 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and 2000's music. I guess that's it's how I was brought up. I'm a boomer but born late enough (1960) to miss the worst part of the drugs, protests, riots etc. And I've always had a sense of history. I live 120 miles from a place that up until the late 1970's or so the fisherman still had a brogue that an Elizabethan would recognize. And about 20 miles away Blackbeard actually lived (in the oldest incorporated town in the state), married a local girl, got cozy with the local government and eventually decided it was all too tame so he turned again to piracy. Historical markers are every where in town. Markers about the Civil War (and earlier) are everywhere and the houses that survived the Federal (there's that word again!) occupation are guarded jealousy. Add to that stories of the strong women of my family. Like my ancestress that refused to swear allegiance to the US after the Civil War. She was buried never surrendering in her mind. Or my great grandmother who was born in the early 1880's. She lived to see not only cars but airplanes and eventually space flight before she passed in 1968. Also stories and family history were passed down from one generation to the other both orally and were in some cases written down. (as an American Studies major I wish my Grandmother had recorded her recollections, they were priceless and they died with her. I also just re-found a 1875 family letter that describes a smallish town recovering from war that could be on one of the Border planets-I wish I could show it to you.) Let's see here...sense of history, small town rebels and is occupied by the Feds, strong women, all sorts of family stories equals one geeky, glasses wearing (had my eye exam Wednesday now bifocal glasses or contacts, ughhhhh!) American Studies major at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill that's currently devouring a biography of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir after an orgy of Tudor biographies. Add a dash of the dramatic, Cecil B. Demille (Washington, NC spelling of the last name) is a distant cousin. Does any one see a trend here?
Saturday, 26 July 2008 14:41:37
Just thought you all would like to read it. :) Mal's there, too.
Saturday, 26 July 2008 15:02:19
Heee! Too much fun! There's a couple of groups out there now, one of Facebook, and one on LiveJournal, for the Dr. Horrible's Intern Army *G* I did up a poster for the groups, which I posted in the BlueSunRoom... took me 4 and a half hours to do, but it was just too much fun to pass up! I'm working on a version that I'm going to print on t-shirts in my store too, along with the other two Dr. Horrible inspired designs I've already created. If you're interested, here's the links: Facebook group:
Saturday, 26 July 2008 15:12:44
Well what can I say I got banned from www.cantstopthesingal.co.uk yesterday. I'm not sure exactly why all I know was I somehow pissed everyone off when I told them about what I wrote about in my last log. That said I was never made welcome at the site and whenever I put my point across about anything the rest of the users would ganged up to rip it to pieces and call me names like disturbed. They may have a point but I thought brown coats were meant to stick together and help one another? Now I don't think I can go to any shindigs in the UK or my home town of Glasgow in case they are there and start to poke fun at me in real life. That aside a family member also died yesterday after I was banned form the site making it a really bad day. No idea how to end this log. Anyone thinking of joining that site beware.