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| User: | sacredchao23 (1445237)
The 21st Century Dandy
an inventor of Aristotilean Machines
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| Name: | Jude The Not So Obscure |
| Location: | Boston/Brighton, Massachusetts, United States |
| Birthdate: | 1981-11-12 |
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| sacredchao23 | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| Bio: | In the information glut of the internet, my voice rings forth like a penny dropped from a very small Empire State Building.
Writer and teacher, presently teaching in the Boston Area.
I recently received my MA from Boston College and am presently teaching as an adjunct at a local college.
In addition to school I'm also shopping around my first novel, The World Upon the Shoulders of an Angel which is sure to completely revolutionize what we think of as literature, or never be picked up by anyone ever. I've also begun my next long project a second novel tentatively titled Hallowed.
Examples of my short fiction will be found in the forthcoming anthologies Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet from Dark Scribe Press, and Holy Horrors edited by Matt Cardin and T.M. Wright.
I have a bachelor's degree from Flagler College, in English and Philosophy/Religion, have lived in the U.S. England, and Ireland. I have an unhealthy romantic relationship with the American South, particularly the bits of Florida that whistle Dixie, and the Gulf Coast. That's pretty much it for now . . .
Oh and I have a cat.
My present journal artwork by the most lovely and talented ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) batarang
'God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.'
-Graham Greene The Quiet American
...that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.
-Ray Bradbury "October Country"
None of this can actually be happening. If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think if it as metaphor. Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celesteal being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers and triumphs overall opposition.
Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world.
So none of this is happening. Such things could not occur. Never a word of it is literally true. Even so, the next thing that happened, happened like this:
-Neil Gaiman, American Gods |
| Interests: | 148: a perfect circle, absinthe, acceptance letters, aestheticism, aesthetics, alan moore, androgyny, art, bauhaus, blaming mel gibson, books, boston, brewing, catholocism, cats, celtic reconstruction, cemeteries, charles algernon swinburne, china miéville, clive barker, corsets, cross-dressing, dante, dark fiction, david bowie, david lynch, dead can dance, decadence, diamanda galas, discordianism, dresden dolls, dykeboy!, echo & the bunnymen, ed wood, eddie izzard, edgar allen poe, elizabeth hand, eris, escape hatches, expatriation, fantasy, fiction, flannery o'connor, folklore, funerary rites, gardening, gnosticism, goth, gothabilly, gothic literature, h.p. lovecraft, halloween, herbalism, horror, hungry lucy, hunter s. thompson, iafa, industrial, ireland, jacques derrida, james joyce, jill tracy, john milton, jorge luis borges, joy division, kali, leonard cohen, literature, lobbygirls, london, lord byron, macbeth, magick, mary shelley, music, myth, neil gaiman, nick cave, nietzsche, nine inch nails, oscar wilde, paganism, paradise lost, percy bysshe shelley, peter murphy, peter straub, phenomonology, philip pullman, philosophy, photography, piercings, poetry, poppy z brite, post-modernism, prague, pre-modernism, punk, queer theory, ramsey campbell, rasputina, reading, rejection letters, religion, religious literature, republicans for voldemort, robert browning, rome, sacred space theology, salman rushdie, salvidor dali, sci-fi, science fiction, scifi, scotland, shakespeare, sheridan lefanu, shirley jackson, siouxsie and the banshees, sisters of mercy, skinny puppy, something positive, southern gothic, st. augustine florida, tattoos, the church, the cure, the misfits, the pogues, the victorian era, theology, tilting at windmills, tom waits, tori amos, umberto eco, urban fantasy, urban legends, venice, victorian era, victorian london, vinyl cabaret slut, walter pater, weird fiction, whiskey, william blake, wine, witchcraft, women, writing |
| Schools: | None listed |
| Friends: | | 92: | aich_at_25, aldous_huxtable, altzen, ancienttreasure, anik, aporiai, atheist_whip, babyjune, batarang, beatnikfly, bookly, candlelitmouse, chidder, circehelene, citycountrygirl, cloakedchaos, countlibras, crowleycrow, cystrx, d_aulnoy, dancing_wolf, dauidus, decrepit, delle, destiny423, dykeboy, ellen_datlow, erin_statia, esmeraldus_neo, eye_of_a_cat, firstargazer, fluxxie, foulwitchqueen, fuschia, geekoverlord, grimacounsellor, grrm, gunwithoutmusic, haydenhed, heathencorp, hedgewytchery, impassive_spite, jaxwolf, je5s, jonahviolin, knoble_barnes, la_manita, leisure_man, leswainsleigh, lizhand, lucius_t, lunariris, lyssabard, marikay4, melodiousaphony, militant_spite, mvoskan, mysteriouskh, neilmacintyre, nihilistic_kid, ninja_turbo, onyxhawke, opwanpeyote, otter_pops, ozzychick, parttimedriver, pfizessicalic, pnh, primalfire, prosewitch, queen_of_11seas, ravendesk, redorchard, ruxxell, scattergrrrl, sclerotic_rings, shaxxon, sillymouka, silverfae9, swan_tower, telarus, thebodydave, thehornedgod, themennonite, tlttlotd, toadofeya, tulip_mania, txtriffidranch, urbpan, viagra, vulfgrl, wickedsmahtgrl |  | 19: | academics_anon, ancientamericas, ask_a_cop, bostonmovietime, cr_r, darkvictoria, dracula1897, gothicamericana, gothicboston, heckifiknow, l_g_h_a_r, litdragon, little_details, nonfluffypagans, shelleycircle, tampa, thehellfireclub, theinferior4, u_southflorida |  | 6: | beluthahatchie, iafa, makinglight, mcsweeneysrss, officialgaiman, vanderworld |
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| Mutual Friends: | 82: aich_at_25, aldous_huxtable, altzen, ancienttreasure, anik, aporiai, atheist_whip, babyjune, batarang, beatnikfly, bookly, candlelitmouse, chidder, circehelene, citycountrygirl, cloakedchaos, countlibras, cystrx, d_aulnoy, dancing_wolf, dauidus, decrepit, delle, destiny423, dykeboy, ellen_datlow, erin_statia, esmeraldus_neo, eye_of_a_cat, firstargazer, fluxxie, foulwitchqueen, fuschia, geekoverlord, grimacounsellor, gunwithoutmusic, haydenhed, heathencorp, hedgewytchery, impassive_spite, jaxwolf, je5s, jonahviolin, knoble_barnes, la_manita, leisure_man, leswainsleigh, lunariris, lyssabard, marikay4, melodiousaphony, militant_spite, mvoskan, mysteriouskh, neilmacintyre, ninja_turbo, opwanpeyote, otter_pops, ozzychick, parttimedriver, pfizessicalic, primalfire, prosewitch, queen_of_11seas, ravendesk, redorchard, scattergrrrl, sclerotic_rings, shaxxon, sillymouka, silverfae9, telarus, thebodydave, thehornedgod, themennonite, tlttlotd, toadofeya, tulip_mania, txtriffidranch, viagra, vulfgrl, wickedsmahtgrl |
| Account type: | Basic Account |
