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Don't quote me on this, but ...
Published: 9/22/2008 4:52 PM
Last Modified: 9/22/2008 4:52 PM

I'm a pack rat of the worst kind, minus being a carrier for plague (fingers crossed).

Mental case in point: I've been stockpiling things that I thought, "Hmm, I've got to put this in a blog." But the opportunity never came up.

So here's some random stuff -- quotes, mostly -- I need to purge from my mind and desktop and make way for ... Well, more random stuff. Like this bumper sticker that says "Warhol 4 president." Why is this here? I need an assistant. Or someone to just set fire to my desk, that'd probably be much easier.

Anyway, back to my scattered brain and random item No. 1: A great quote about writing, or at least having the ability to do so, from Nobel literature prize winner Doris Lessing (according to the BBC by way of CNN). "This is why I keep telling anyone younger than me, don't imagine you'll have it forever. Use it while you've got it because it'll go. It's sliding away like water down a plughole." That's awesome AND scary, what with my inability to get my novel written. It's all in my head, but that's a dangerous place.

Random item No. 2: My favorite quote from Jack Kerouac (and the only one I know, to be honest). ""The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." Love that. Besides, I'm all about "the mad ones," too, Jack. Unless it involves rush-hour traffic.

Next, my most random thing to share: A conversation overheard this summer at a restaurant while my high school best friend, Cory, was in town. It was between two guys, chatting over breakfast. What they said was so intriguing (or maybe I hadn't been distracted by my omelette yet) that I had to text myself parts of it. Is that a crime? Whatever, here goes ... "They cut off his happy place." I swear that's what he said. Followed a few minutes later by, "Think of all the trouble they could've saved if they cut it off when he was 16." Oh. My. Goodness. Mary. What the freak?

Finally, a quote from "Sin City," which I saw for the umpteenth time recently: "You can't kill a man without knowing whether or not you ought to." So very true.

Peace, love and happy places ... xoxo


Reader Comments 6 Total
MissTara (4 years ago)
Jas, I am just popping in to say hi! Hope things are well with you, still love the blogs my friend =)
MissTara (4 years ago)
Oh and I have to add my favorite quote of all time from the movie *Anna And The King*.... "If Love Were A Choice, Who Would Choose Such Exquisite Pain?" Now tell me that ain't true eh?
Sage (4 years ago)
"Remember that people with a magnetic personality can attract people, but frequently repel just as many. It's just the nature of polarity." - Bobby Lipscom when he was giving a personality inventory to a leadership group I belonged to in college. It's been 13 years, and I still carry that with me.
Jason Ashley (4 years ago)
Excellent quotes both. So does that mean I'm bi-polar? In the mean time, Miss Tara, methinks we need better painkillers ... xoxo
Sage (4 years ago)
Now you know I would never diagnose via the www!
elly willy (4 years ago)
I so get what you mean.
Both of us do...........
{Twirling, always twirling}
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While other kids were watching "The Smurfs," Scene Writer Jason Ashley Wright was tuned in to "Style with Elsa Klensch." By fourth grade, he knew he wanted to write, and spent almost three years publishing a weekly teen-oriented magazine, Teen-Zine -- circulation: 2. After earning a degree in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi, he became the medical reporter and teen board coordinator for the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, a Gannett newspaper. Eight months later, with visions of Elsa dancing in his head, he applied for the fashion writer position at the Tulsa World, where he began working on Aug. 3, 1998. He is now a general assignment reporter for Scene.

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