A brief aside - I stand by my debauchery!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mood:
Mellow
I've had a very easy day today. I went on no tours, saw no historic sites, no remains of Nazi attrocity. Just took a nice, hour-long walk around the residential areas south of my hotel. I'm meeting some Poles tonight who are going to help me with my ticket to Budapest. I fly home Tuesday (the 16th) and I can't wait. Been on the road too long. I miss my chicken wings and vodka and The Simpsons.
But tonight, I'm hanging with the locals which should be fun. .50 liters of beer costs the equivalent of $1.15 U.S. dollars. A full meal with side dishes and a salad costs less than $9 U.S. dollars. I swear the folks at the Clarion reunion won't recognize me for the million pounds I've put on.
The real aside of this entry is that I'm gunned up for seeing my friends at the Clarion reunion. I had a chance to look at some of the online journals of the current Clarion class and they are having similar experiences to mine last year - late nights, quibbles, seeing sucky movies (last year's bombshell was "A.I."), and wondering if we'll still be writing post-Clarion.
One of the current entries said that she had to erase a prior entry because of false- or not-confirmed information. Along the lines of past Clarion debauchery.
I hereby state that I stand by all of Clarion 2001's debauchery. Since I was involved in the planning and execution of 99% of it, I feel that I should stand by it. I had a blast and so did my classmates. Sometimes debauchery is the only way to relieve the stresses of incessant writing.
Example: read Chip Delany's autobigraphical "Times Square Red, Times Square Blue." One of his chapters will make any Clarion debauchery look like a Girl Scout picnic.
If you have debauchered at Clarion or otherwise and you consider yorself a writer, stand by your actions. It is NOT a rule that a writer has to be decadent, but we artists have a lot of moral elasticity that directly coincides with learning about, and documenting life.
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE CLARION UNDERGROUND T-SHIRT?
But tonight, I'm hanging with the locals which should be fun. .50 liters of beer costs the equivalent of $1.15 U.S. dollars. A full meal with side dishes and a salad costs less than $9 U.S. dollars. I swear the folks at the Clarion reunion won't recognize me for the million pounds I've put on.
The real aside of this entry is that I'm gunned up for seeing my friends at the Clarion reunion. I had a chance to look at some of the online journals of the current Clarion class and they are having similar experiences to mine last year - late nights, quibbles, seeing sucky movies (last year's bombshell was "A.I."), and wondering if we'll still be writing post-Clarion.
One of the current entries said that she had to erase a prior entry because of false- or not-confirmed information. Along the lines of past Clarion debauchery.
I hereby state that I stand by all of Clarion 2001's debauchery. Since I was involved in the planning and execution of 99% of it, I feel that I should stand by it. I had a blast and so did my classmates. Sometimes debauchery is the only way to relieve the stresses of incessant writing.
Example: read Chip Delany's autobigraphical "Times Square Red, Times Square Blue." One of his chapters will make any Clarion debauchery look like a Girl Scout picnic.
If you have debauchered at Clarion or otherwise and you consider yorself a writer, stand by your actions. It is NOT a rule that a writer has to be decadent, but we artists have a lot of moral elasticity that directly coincides with learning about, and documenting life.
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE CLARION UNDERGROUND T-SHIRT?
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