February 21, 2007...12:42 am
The beauty of MySpace
“I see you’re into p0rn and Texas-roller derby (Rollergirls was the greatest show!!!)”
And that’s how you connect with people you haven’t talked to in like 15 years.
Remember B that I wrote about last week? I got curious and gave him the ol’ Google treatment. I’d looked before and found nothing but this time I found a cavalcade of reference and photos. Dude writes comics now and started a publishing company. How fantabulous is that? Now I’m wondering how many other people who took that first fiction writing class at PSU Altoona ended up as writers.
So anyway…
What I did was I checked out their website, found some great articles that he & his writing partner did for Absolute Write and their publishing company’s MySpace page. So I friended them. Their only friends are p0rn stars and strippers. Page after page. Naturally I knew I’d found the right guy. Now I have a couple porn stars as MySpace friends too but not 900+ of them. I do have the BWE 2003 cover up there b/c you never know when someone might read my story and Google me.
So later today I’ll prepare a lengthy e-mail filling him in on things, life and whatnot. It’s always amazed me how I can contact someone after a long time out of his/her life and the person doesn’t tell me to fuck off. I was raised to believe that one disagreement = cut out of life forever. It’s been hard accepting that people might have a fond memory or two of me, even when I have such fond memories of them. Case in point: Hawk. We’d known each other maybe ten years before we actually started to date, writing letters, drifting in & out of each other’s lives… amazing.
So thanks to MySpace I found one of my all-time favorite people again and, if I can talk Hawk into it, I might try to get to a con in Pittsburgh in April. As it is, I’m going to have to get to bed so I’m bright-eyed and bushy tailed to write that missive. After all, I have to impress him with my mad writing skillz.
4 Comments
February 21, 2007 at 2:21 am
So, erm, what’s the connection between p*rn stars and comic books?
February 21, 2007 at 6:59 am
Holy cow. Hadn’t seen your MySpace before. Seeing Zoë do her Gollem impression, I was so horrified. Then amused. Then horrified. Then completely cracking up. Now I’m just dumbfounded
Thanks for posting it!
February 21, 2007 at 7:54 am
The Pittsburgh Comicon? I’ve never been, but Rand’s played there in the past.
February 21, 2007 at 11:08 am
Theryn, have you *seen* the way most chicks in comics are drawn?
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