Archive for March, 2008

New Writer’s Lesson: The Writer’s Trance & The Four Trance Breakers

Posted in On Writing  by John Brown on March 7th, 2008
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The Sequel to Spiderman, Peter Parker, & The Gift of Writer’s Block.

The Writer’s Trance & The Four Trance Breakers

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Anti Monkey Butt

Posted in Zing  by John Brown on March 7th, 2008
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Sometimes words fail me…

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Ugandan Monkey Boy

Posted in Zing  by John Brown on March 6th, 2008
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Ugandan Monkey Boy - John Ssebunya

I thought all such things were hoaxes.  Above is a picture of John after having been found and saved.

John Ssebunya, the Ugandan Monkey Boy
Date found: 1991
Age when found: 6
Location: Uganda
Years in the wild: 3
Animals: monkeys

John ran and hid in a forest, about 2-3 km from his house after witnessing the murder of his mother by his father. His father was known to be an alcoholic and violent.

John says he was so frightened of his father that he stayed in the forest. It is possible that he had some degree of mental handicap at that time and this may have contributed to the fact that he did not understand that he should have sought help from other adults.

He was aged roughly 4 or 5 at the time that he was found in 1989 according to witnesses like Mrs Milly Sseba who found him in the forest. There is no birth certificate…

John identified the mokes as Cercopithicus Aethiops (the common African Grey or Green Vervet Monkey). This is very significant as this is one of the very few species of mammal that lives in social groups and will accept and tolerate a lone individual of another species of monkey living alongside their group. Other monkeys and apes will not do this — chimpanzees for example would simply eat a human child.

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Indeed zing, but heart wrenching.

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Mystified in Grand Central Station

Posted in Zing  by John Brown on March 6th, 2008
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Over 200 people frozen in place

Dude!

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New writer’s lesson: Capture the Zing

Posted in On Writing  by John Brown on March 6th, 2008
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There are 3 steps in the creative process. The first has to do with keeping your imagination alive. Your imagination is a beast. Feed it, and it will get up and terrorize the neighborhood on its own accord. Starve it, and it will lie there like a gigantic dust mop and gather flies.

Step 1 of The Creative Process: Capture the Zing

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The blessings and horrors of manure lagoons

Posted in Zing  by John Brown on March 5th, 2008
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California cows start passing gas to the grid

By Nichola Groom, Tue Mar 4, 2008 6:30pm EST

RIVERDALE, California (Reuters) – Imagine a vat of liquid cow manure covering the area of five football fields and 33 feet deep. Meet California’s most alternative new energy.

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Man drowns after falling into manure pit

By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News Published: January 19, 2008

A man apparently drowned after falling into an iced-over manure pit at a Cache County dairy, authorities said….Deputies said the pit is about 8 feet deep and is filled with cow manure, moisture and ammonia from the urine, giving it a “soupy consistency.” “It is loose quicksand is what it is,” Bilodeau said. “You can’t swim in it. You’re almost completely incapacitated in it.”

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