surly petunia: a norse pagan writer's blog

malison d'etre

2005-07-01T12:42:00.000-05:00

jonathan is a bat out
of hell
which explains his crispy singed
wings
and his
expression of perpetual exasperation
and why he sleeps
hanging over the heat register
on cold nights
he's working on a PhD
in social work
but what he really
wants is to
be a rock star
like michael jackson
& madonna
strangely enough he cant stand baseball
or hippopotamuses

c. 1990

nude coinage

2005-06-21T09:09:00.000-05:00

the sewage of the city was
collected by the most avid
enthusiasts of ozone archeology
& the turbid waters of the
oiled narcotic river were carried in large
earthen jars and sold as cough
syrup and very few customers
ever noticed the difference
& wooden sidewalk technology had got
quite advanced before someone invented
the match

c1990
published in 'temm poetry magazine' Sept. 1990

5 pages done on book this morning

2005-06-21T09:06:00.000-05:00

I wrote five pages in my 'Way of the Runes' book this morning. Five pages a day is a good pace, I'm not sure I'm going to push myself to do more.

If only I worked this well every day. But then again, I am up to page 58, all written since the begin of month. And I haven't given it up yet. Perhaps this time I'll really do it.

synaptic decay

2005-06-20T13:32:00.000-05:00

local bolshevik tsaritsa with a
gingivitis mind --- red & irritated
studying specific mudroom tactics
involving copy cats on the ratlines
as mice gnaw away at the infinity
sidewalk
its the
least possible mercy
but unavailable from your local record retailer

c1990

'way of the runes' book

2005-06-19T17:59:00.000-05:00

up to page 53 as of this morning

Comment function of this blog has been removed

2005-06-19T17:02:00.000-05:00

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This is done for the protection of those who do not wish to be exposed
to foul language and other bad things from anonymous commentors and some
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Sorry for the inconvenience.

writer's block

2005-06-17T14:37:00.000-05:00

For me when I'm working on a writing project, it goes well for a day or two, up to a point. Once that point is reached, I look back on what I've written, think it's awful, and throw much of it out and start over.

Then paralysis sets in and sooner or later--- usually sooner--- the project gets junked.

But in actual fact the stuff I thought was so bad and in need of re-writing wasn't bad at all. Often I'll come across the old stuff months or years later and be really impressed by it.

I need to find ways of writing to get around this repeated paralysis.

among the zinnias

2005-06-17T14:35:00.000-05:00

and now i'm walking--- testing the perimeter
ducking bigeyed baby hitlers
& librarian's lizzie borden but more tastefully done

they dont like it when the mice fight

and
escape
is not in the game

c. 1990

Atomic Energy is Your Friend

2005-06-14T11:13:00.000-05:00

i am a shiny metal
atomic bomb
dropping so gracefully
thru your sky

do you hear my screaming silver streak?
do you see my flash brightening your last world?
do you feel my ardent heat caress you?
and are you sad to die?

i am a shiny metal
atomic bomb
dropping so gracefully
thru your sky

c1990

fly agaric

2005-06-14T11:12:00.000-05:00

this is a picture
of a mushroom
which is poison
it is however quite delicious
choose large ones for grilling
and grease the skillet well
& die

c. 1990

thinking diet

2005-06-14T11:08:00.000-05:00

gimme
predigested
sadly slanted
noxious network news
i dont wanna hafta choose
between contradictive views

this world
//too complicated//
i want
2 be sedated

c1990
kinda makes me think of Dan Rather and that O'Reilly guy now

surly petunia

2005-06-12T19:10:00.000-05:00

lauralee lauralee lauralee
down! down! down! she goes
into a vat of melted
lawn furniture

anarchists blowing up
condoms on their heads//in bars//behind bars//monkey bars

<< beware of underware insurance salesmen
sneered the lamp knowingly >>

fuzzy pink housewives in fuzzy pink robes
on strike

deathterrorkillviolence/rape/rape/rape
cucumber
cucumber
cucumber

c1988

normally, it's spelled 'underwear', by the way.

Through Violet Eyes

2005-06-12T19:09:00.000-05:00

It's a suspense novel by Stephen Woodworth.

The premise is this. A small number of people are born with violet eyes and the ability to communicate with the dead.

The Violets, as they are called, allow murder victims to take them over so they can testify against the murderers.

The problem in the book is that someone has begun killing the Violets.

A compelling book. The premise is very well realized. A sequel is in the works, called With Red Hands.

remembrance of persian opium

2005-06-12T19:07:00.000-05:00

the northern inhabitants cannot
behead the profane so proficiently
lack of practice i expect

the machete maddens them
altho impudent, we eat plasterboard on request
against the dread of the dossier

still the annihilation so devoutly to be wished
escapes us, tho the usual intoxicants attempt discretion
in quiescence is contraband schizophrenia

c1990

cup & saucer carousel

2005-06-12T19:04:00.000-05:00

oh give thanks for geometrical illusions
and sail a classic racing car to the island
where exotic art noveau holidays live
then twirl and dance with a jewish garden dragon
and be happy ever after

c. 1990

more old poetry. kind of like this one. maybe i ought to start submitting my poems but can't really afford it being poor sucks, what can i say.

Orson Scott Card's The Crystal City

2005-06-12T19:03:00.000-05:00

Just got the latest book in Card's Alvin Maker series, a fantasy set in an alternate America.

Orson Scott Card is a Mormon and the Alvin Maker series is based on the life of Joseph Smith, the 'profit' who founded the Mormon church.

The golden plow in the story is based on the golden book that Joseph Smith claimed to have found and translated, which was the Book of Mormon which the Mormons claim to be the word of their God.

This is not the only series that is secretly based on Mormonism. He has another series 'Homecoming' which is based on the stories in the Book of Mormon--- the character Nafai is based on Nephi in the book of Mormon.

Card is a good writer but I wonder about the moral side of using things from his religious beliefs without declaring his source. I'm sure a lot of Christian parents whose kids read Card's Mormon books would forbid it if they knew it had Mormon content.

My computer is a ----- piece of -----

2005-06-12T10:03:00.000-05:00

excuse the almost-profanity

all right, i got my computer second hand and i knew it wouldn't last forever.

but now windows won't load half the time and i've spend half the morning trying to get it to deal with my email--- and i still only processed one email out of 7 new.

if only C. T.
would get religion and offer to pay compensation for all the costs we've had to incur due to his threats and all (new locks, anti-hacking software, PO box), i could get a new computer easily.

yes, yes, life is unfair and then you die..............

hope this computer lasts long enough to get my book done.

CIA CIA CIA CIA CIA

2005-06-11T08:04:00.000-05:00

now that i have your attention.......

got about 7 more pages done on the book, a lot of it organizational work but am moving forward and am jazzed about it.

put up a post on Nine Virtues News about the rune Fehu which is the first section to be completed. will probably work on that next once i get offline.

transdimensional plumbing contractors

2005-06-11T08:01:00.000-05:00

we're just living in an antimatter universe and
biding our time which doesnt exactly exist really
but seems to

as the
heat-seeking lesbian cruise missiles orbit
the invisible nuclei & nuclear powered
fire hydrants explode with damp thuds
as mutant hyperdogs walk by

which is understandable really
under the circumstances
(which are classified)

c.1990

Blogging instead of writing

2005-06-10T13:31:00.000-05:00

I should be working on my book right now.

Instead I get busy with my blogs--- I've moved this one and Nightmare Realm and so have to transfer the posts--- and sorting out my email.

I've done about 40 pages of the 'Way of the Runes' book (I give info on content in the Nine Virtues News blog) and if I would work every night, I might get done.

Then all I have to worry about is finding a publisher....................

bogged down

2005-06-07T13:38:00.000-05:00

in melted marshmallows....

in a state of paralysis not getting anything done except rearranging the deck chairs on my blogs, groups and web sites, and running out capturing escaped livestock....

need to Quit This Right Now and work on my writing....

hope no one is reading this......

blogger's elbow

2005-06-06T13:41:00.000-05:00

In addition to such ailments as housemaid's knee and swimmmer's ear, we now have blogger's elbow.

That's what you get when you spend too much time at your computer blogging. Last night when I quit the blogging and got to work on my 'way of the runes' book, I realized my left elbow hurt.

I guess I have to wear my wrist supports when I work on my computer from now on.

I don't need yet one more reason not to work on the book.

streets that have not here-to-for had names

2005-06-05T07:30:00.000-05:00

the late randy carlson
who passed away last june
is on the ballot for village president
it is said that he is hopeful
of being elected to the post

general election will be held on march 12th
polls will be open from 7 am until forever

copyright 1990 nissa annakindt

Finally, a good excuse

2005-01-01T13:43:00.000-06:00

The reason I have not been writing in this blog lately is that I have been busy writing for real. Up to page 100 or so this morning. Hope I can keep this up.

Ragnarok

2004-12-26T13:44:00.000-06:00

some one needs to write a book that's really a disaster movie in print about ragnarok, on account of how many folk today are convinced we are living in the end times

some times their religion is christianity/waiting for the rapture and the antichrist

some times they put their trust in the god darwin/waiting for global warming to trigger an ice age like in that movie 'the day after tomorrow' where it is really all the dick cheney character's fault.

some days i think with all the wretched stuff you hear about on news and the kind of entertainment they put up on the tv/ janet jackson's breast

thinking the end is near is actually the optimist's approach

socks are underwear, after all!

2004-11-01T07:32:00.000-06:00

eating spaghetti with a cattle prod
the small byzantine child asks
mother may i keep this fish head?
it followed me home

& the mother
a neophyte carpet prostitute, says
yes but only if you
drink your opium
all gone

c 1990

published in 'HEATHENzine' Aug/Sept '90, which was not actually a Heathen zine but a poetry mag.

restoring Order

2004-10-31T07:34:00.000-06:00

they are kkkrying to
restore the death camp sausages
to black young men accused of
understanding the universal davenport
of being and not liking it

they will build a
long dark tunnel with entrances in
the provisional doors of police cars
& bathrooms of neonizing mission shelters
& soupline spoons with safety helmets

then the headlamps ask you kindly snarling
dont you know the goodguys
always wear white
sheets

c1990

if this thing has any meaning i can't figure it out for the life of me