Why?

[rowens]

My heart is broken, billy. Can you at least let me cry a few days before you get rid of me? Twin Peaks is coming back. It is, I didn't make it up.

[ellajam]

My guy says xfiles is coming back. More pigpen time for me.

[rowens]

The X-Files has a 6 episode run starting at the end of the month. My library had every episode so far. Shit, I have Millenium and The Lone Gunma(e)n on VHS. I was rewatching, got up to the T-1000 episodes of X-Files, and they got rid of them. Why? Because they don't want to be a library with a collection. They are embarrassed to have anything.

[milo]

I think the old x-files are all available on YouTube now.

[rowens]

Almost everything's available online. So when a town never had anything to begin with that's the excuse for everything.

[milo]

How cool would it be if they just moved the whole town online? All the people, the streets, the buildings . . .

[rowens]

I wrote a novel about that. Everybody knows they're living in a Matrix kind of reality where they can do all that crazy, off the wall Matrix stuff, but they'd rather just sit watching videos on YouTube and sending text messages. It's still in rough draft, and I haven't rewrote it yet because I can't find the notebook where I wrote the middle chapters which is an interlude where one of the characters goes to a farm in a rural area of the Internet. It's somewhere around here. I remember I drew a flower on the cover of the notebook. I just haven't seen it lately.

[milo]

Sounds like a great novel.

[rowens]

Yeah. It just gets boring at parts.

[milo]

All great novels do.

[rowens]

It might just be because I wrote it so I already know what's going to happen.

[milo]

That does rob some of the element of surprise.

[rowens]

Plus it's unfinished, so there's that complaint I could see publishers having. But I remember the fellow on here the other week talking about Kafka, and part of Kafka's charm is he barely finished anything. S. T. Coleridge too.

[milo]

I wonder if any novel is really finished. Just write:part 1 on the front or something and call it a serial. They will love it. Did you include any teenage vampires in it? All good books these days have teenage vampires.

[rowens]

Say what you want about Stephen King, but 'Salem's Lot and The Night Flier are two damn good vampire movies. And Silver Bullet is one of the rare breed called a good werewolf movie. My library of course is full of Stephen King, but they did get rid of Cycle of the Werewolf.

[QDeathstar]

How cool would it be if they just moved the whole town online? All the people, the streets, the buildings . . .

https://earth.google.com/


I drove around a town in Minnesota just for the kicks once.....

[milo]

How cool would it be if they just moved the whole town online? All the people, the streets, the buildings . . .

https://earth.google.com/


I drove around a town in Minnesota just for the kicks once.....

The town isn't actually there, it is just pictures.

[billy]

shit, i was kicking you out today but okay, you have a week and a stick on a leash

My heart is broken, billy. Can you at least let me cry a few days before you get rid of me? Twin Peaks is coming back. It is, I didn't make it up.

[UselessBlueprint]

Breaking the x-files discussion....

Questions like this spring me into bouts of something I can only classify as semi-optimistic nihilism. It was something I found myself doing when writing some recent essays. When questioning the significance of an artistic decision, I found myself questioning the significance of art, and just went down the line until I was once again questioning the purpose and value of living at all. Unfortunately, I have no answers yet.

I learned not to trust my local library or bookstores. My personal library is small, but ranges from an 1825 book of Alexander Pope's poems to a copy of Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. I've yet to purchase a copy of Fahrenheit 451, but I suspect now might be the opportune time; it sure seems the local library you have could use a few copies.

[rowens]

It always seems people are embarrassed to admit they feel anything at all when they sit down to write. To admit it if they do feel they're accomplishing something.