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September 13, 2007

It's a Processed World

This is an EXCELLENT SYNOPSIS of the ongoing workplace-war that is destroying American society from the inside out by denuding labor of any real meaning or purpose.

Processedworldissue1smallProcessedworld05I have been following workplace trends (oh, the de-humanity) since the early 1980s, when Processed World came onto the scene.  (Here's the history on PW.)

Again, the essay at Powell's Books website ("They're Micromanaging Your Every Move," a review by Simon Head) is well worth the read. The hens have come home to roost, and they're hawkish.


 

In other news, I've made a bit of progress on my right-brain novel, after completing the first draft, which my writing coach is reviewing currently. Mostly I've been filling in a few gaps that will have to be remedied anyhow. Better sooner than later, I figure. (So I'm resetting the word count goal to the original 50,000 words, since that is probably where it will end up after all.)  Here's the word count:

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48,944 / 50,000
(97.9%)




Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent


[this page last updated: 2007.09.13, 10:25 a.m. Hawaii time]


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May 22, 2007

Flashback Classics with DJ Dr. Johnny P. LoveTrain

Johnnyplovetrain

My online friend Dr. Johnny P. LoveTrain is coming back on the air tomorrow at Internet radio station WBUL, and Tampa station 1620 AM, and I want to offer some support.

Johnny keeps asking me to write something about him and his show. Sometimes it has kind of annoyed me, but sometimes you gotta be a bit annoying to get what you want. If there's one thing I know for sure, it's that need for PERSISTENCE in order to get on in this world. So that's the theme for the LitBoy blog this week: PERSISTENCE.
   
Carpenters1971Johnny hosts a weekly Internet radio show devoted to pop music from the 1960s through the early 1990s – what most people commonly think of nowadays as the "classic" era of pop / rock music. His favorite year in pop music is 1978, and his tastes run more toward the softer side of rock, and early "dance music" (a/k/a disco): on a typical Johnny show, you are more likely to hear America, Andy Gibb, Olivia Newton-John, and the Carpenters than Hendrix and his harder-edged descendants, although sometimes you'll get an Aerosmith feature anyhow.

AerosmithinactionThat's one thing I like about his show; it is just off-center enough to keep things surprising. So Johnny's program usually makes good background music while I'm working at my computer. Johnny doesn't like any music created past 1992. We have that in common, Johnny and I – although I try to keep an open mind regarding anything new, a lot of it just doesn't move me.

CarpenterssuperstarjapanJohnny has a distinctive voice that is pleasing to the ear. He is sincere. He is emotional. He cares about making a good show, and he loves to hear from his listeners. He will dedicate a song for you if you request it at FBComments@wabcmail.com at least a few hours in advance of his broadcast. Everyone who requests or lets him know they are listening will receive an "on-air shout-out." (He always sends me an "Aloha" since I'm on the Big Island.)

AerosmithtakeyourbraoffJohnny's show isn't perfect. Sometimes he messes up his cues, and sometimes he over-explains things. Occasionally he goes into Bible-thumping mode, which really turns me off, and that's when I turn him off. He is working on his style, though, and I think he is getting better. He broadcasts from the University of South Florida at Tampa, so it's a college radio show. Johnny wants to work for a professional radio station someday, and I hope he makes it.

CarpenterssuperstarofdavidIn any case, Johnny has personality. He is not trying to be anyone but himself. Sometimes he seems like a bit of an underdog, but I've been one myself at times, and so I rather like underdogs. It's always more fun when they come through, isn't it? So I would rather listen to Johnny and his songs than to some DJ who is slick or edgy or annoying or just plain bland.

You can find Dr. Johnny P. LoveTrain's MySpace page HERE.

And his show is RIGHT HERE. Check my Google Calendar by scrolling down the left sidebar to find out when his next show is on the air. Right now FLASHBACK CLASSICS is on every Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern time, or from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Hawaii.

[UPDATE, 1 Sept. 2007: FLASHBACK CLASSICS returns on Wednesdays from 9 p.m. to midnight Eastern time (that's 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Hawaiian time) starting this Wednesday, September 5. He now has a blog at: BLOGSPOT.

Image of DJ Johnny P. LoveTrain by Kayleigh in the UK — go ahead and click, it's a lovely page! Right now it features a lovely ballad when it launches.



Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent


[this page last updated: 2007.09.01, 11:15 a.m. Hawaii time]


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March 16, 2007

Ya gotta wonder... (Googling on sex, drugs, and writing)

Sex, drugs, and ... writing? "Blogging out" is like rocking out. Blogs often convey the raw, hedonistic, do-it-yourself ethic of primal forms of popular music. After all, "popular" means "of the people," and nowadays millions of people are blogging.

As with rock'n'roll, anyone can blog. As with good rock, good blogging takes attitude. So if you can express your attitude with twenty-six letters and an Internet connection (as opposed to, say, three chords and an amp), then you can blog well. Also, consider this:

"I do what I do because I was always a big fan. The ultimate fan transcends fandom and does it himself."
    — Clem Burke, drummer for Blondie, quoted in Blondie, by Lester Bangs, p. 34 (Simon & Schuster, 1980).

The same principle applies to success in any creative discipline: Those who persist the longest and hardest in a chosen discipline (i.e., the most passionately) tend to become its most powerful practitioners.

One of the kewl features of this typepad.com professional blog account is that it shows me where a fair number of my blog's search-engine hits originate, as well as the search phrase.

So, with that in mind, here are a few of the web-surfs that washed Googlers and other web-searchers onto my site over the past ten days, in keeping with our sex, drugs, and writing theme:

 




From blogger.com blog search: "jerk off party" (hit #31)
- 2007.03.14, 8:30 PM, referencing: THE JOSE STORY (Feb. 23)

From http://www.searchalot.com: "mother-superior sucked my dick" (hit #15)
- 2007.03.14, 9:07 PM, referencing: /sex/index.html


From Google.co.uk:

"polish chocolates and cocaine" (hit #11)
- 2007.03.07, 9:11 AM, referencing: /food_and_drink/index.html

"sticky vicky sexy magic show" (hit #20) litboy.typepad.com/my_weblog/sex/index.html
- 2007.03.11, 1:33 PM, referencing: /sex/index.html

From Google.com:

"coffee pot meth" (hit #4)
- 2007.03.16, 5:03 AM, referencing: TEMPEST IN A COFFEE POT (Jan. 15)

—Look at some of the other hits if you want to read about the controversy over coffee pots and burners in hotel rooms, mostly inspired by a single Alabama article that was widely spread across the Internet. The reader comments on some of these hits are interesting. My take: with meth, the larger the news outlet, the more sensationalized the stories tend to be.

"Stay off ecstasy, self help" (hit #21)
- 2007.03.16, 7:33 AM, referencing: /rant/index.html

"brush your teeth with my cock" (hit #2)
- 2007.03.07, 4:20 PM, referencing: litboy.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/01/brush_your_care.html
…oh, and [ here's hit #1. ]

"cum spaghetti dinner" (hit #6)
- 2007.03.10, 5:23 PM, referencing: litboy.typepad.com/my_weblog/sex/index.html

"garage jerking off" (hit # 2)
- 2007.03.10, 7:22 PM

—Note that this search landed at KID PRO QUO (Feb. 16), my sex-story post from late January, which was not at all about the garage – so c'mon, peeps, get busy writing them garage whack-off tales! There's a niche to be, uh, filled…. I can see the anthology now: "Grease Marks the Spot"….

"Mom walked in just as my stiff cock popped out" (hits #8 and #16), referencing: litboy.typepad.com/my_weblog/sex/index.html
- 2007.03.10, 2:01 PM

"couldnt pop a boner" (hit #6)
(to which, LOL, Google prompts the question:
"Did you mean: could pop a boner" ?
- 2007.03.12, 11:16 PM, referencing: KID PRO QUO (Feb. 16)

"fluff couples and cum cleaners" (hit # unknown. It must have been buried past the first 200 hits; that's where I gave up.)
- 2007.03.13, 4:30 AM, referencing: /sex/index.html

"prayer to brush your teeth" (hit #11, OMG! I'm sure my electric toothbrush-as-sex-vibrator story ain't what this Googler had in mind.)
- 2007.03.15, 4:19 AM, referencing: BRUSH YOUR CARES AWAY (Jan. 27)

[ This one ] (hit #18) turned into an amusing thread – Is there a lot more funny porn like mine out there? Obviously there's a market for the stuff.

"stories that use graphic" (hit #1 of 1!)
- 2007.03.15, 6:29 AM, referencing: just the disclaimer text I created for [ my three sex stories posted to date. ]

And, finally, someone from Ireland (Google.ie) finds the secrets to high-volume writing output, Googling on: [ write 3000 words a day ] (hit #3)
- 2007.03.15, 4:34 AM

 



We will never agree unilaterally on any secrets regarding the writing process, other than to just do it. That would be like trying to get everyone to agree on the "proper" way to paint; you have to discover your own rhythms and techniques.
[ Here's an example. ]
 

[ This one, too ] — it's great stuff, albeit daunting.

…like what I did on [ my 3000 word day of writing, ] only every day for an entire year! Imagine [ NaNoWriMo ] as your daily job. Hmmm, I wonder….

And, oh, looky, all this obsessive journaling I've been doing for nearly thirty years does have its benefits:

"Once you get into a daily writing habit (one page, come on, you can write ONE page, can't you?) you begin to see the world as a writer sees it, the ordinary inside the great, the tiny brilliances in the everyday. You begin to see with a writer's eyes. But only, ONLY if you commit to the idea of writing every day."

Now, compare this statement to mine, dated: 3/4/2006, 5:34 PM:

"Find the heroic in the mundane, and the mundane in the heroic, and you are well on your way to transcending the bullshit of life."

(Yeah, I'm so writing-obsessed that I even time-stamp my quotable quotes.)

So maybe I'm doing something right, after all.

 



Oh, and [ one more, heh. ]
(hit #9 on the phrase "sex machines" – wow, thanks, typepad, for the good indexing placement.)
- 2007.03.15, 11:21 AM, referencing: BRUSH YOUR CARES AWAY (Jan. 27).

Since these hits were all logged at my blog, the tracking required no effort on my part, making this even better than [ ego-surfing. ]

And here's a fun toy for that, you egotist, you:

Ego-surfing without the guilt (as if!)

 



Wishing you a wonderful (and guilt-free) day,

—Bill Brent


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January 27, 2007

BRUSH YOUR CARES AWAY (or: In between the sheets, in between the molars)

[DISCLAIMER: The following story deals with sex in a graphic way. It contains several of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words, so if you are a minor, or offended by stories that use graphic language to depict sexual situations, please navigate ELSEWHERE before reading any further. Thank you!]

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Hiya, friends:

Just checking in right now — decided to hook myself up to this sex machine trip today for whatever part of it works. I dropped some fantastic acid a while ago and now I'm up in my private little loft space, see? No one goes here, 'cept me ... and whom I see fit to let in on a particular day, hear? Today it's just me and my cuuuute li'l electric toothbrush.

"Sex machine." Not so alien a concept. We are all sexual. We are all little heartbeat machines. And just like any good machine, I know when it's time to take care of myself. Depress the off-switch. Nap-time.

But then, at some point, I must emerge from my nap-time. Pass along whatever sacred, secret truths that some poor schmuck is always trying to make buck off of borrowing from me. I sure don't know what those secrets are. But, as the heavens know, there are rare and gifted, inspirational individuals among us who always manage to give more than they get. They are certainly not schmucks. Maybe you're one of them.

So it is with the grrrreatest of pleasure that I share with you today the secret truths I have been shown by the Ordenta Corporation.

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The Ordenta Corporation manufactures exactly one product -- the Ordenta. Its alleged purpose is to clean your teeth. Don't be fooled.

"What keeps all these people smiling?" pose the ads. "Ordenta!" Ahh, but if they only knew what was going on behind this special little device. The unique one that won't be confined by so limiting a label as "electric toothbrush." The name "Ordenta" stands alone, unsupported by adjectives and nouns, as proof of its timeless, utilitarian invincibility.

I was given this little gift by my very sexy dentist (okay, so I paid for it—at the low, low price of just $79.95) because I was suffering from periodontal disease. Not very sexy. But, after a year, my teeth and gums have never been better, so I'm sold on the Ordenta.

Ordenta.

Reorganize the letters a bit, and it becomes "adentro." Spanish for "inside." A clue? Most definitely. Come, let's see what's inside...

"Use me as a toothbrush," it states, just a bit too officiously on the package.

"Use me...."

As if. Sure, you could also use it on a nipple, a succulent clit, an angrily flared crown of swelling, captive dickbulb perhaps lashed to the mattress. But would you? Could you?

Sometimes I think that the greatest absurdity of human existence is our need to put each item into its appropriate category, department, box, drawer. All assignment of proportion to things.

When the potential of the sensual realm is infinite....

But let's start with the teeth, shall we?

One miraculous feature of this lovely device-that-refuses-to-be-called-just-a-lowly-electric-toothbrush is that it gets the damn things clean. I never feel ready to get it on until my teeth are clean. Clean teeth are very sexy, don't you think?

Fast-forward back to the loft. I've cleaned my teeth, I feel sexy. The cool and sticky feel of the 0.4% Stable Stannous Fluoride Gel on my cock is a delight, as always. I pick up the Ordenta, and with that ritual glimmering gesture, I foreshadow all that is to come.

The whirring of the little engine, repetitive massaging of little infinite universes all exploding in on each other and blossoming outward into an electric orgasm of paralytic ecstatic friggin' ecstasy. Prayer.

I really do like the whirring engine, but basically, it's a cheap job. I mean, it's great as far as the dental market, but it's pretty lightweight as far as the pro-vibro stuff goes. In other words, this ain't no Hitachi Magic Wand. Then again, maybe it's all in how you examine (or de-examine) lust. Here goes:

whirrrrrrr...........

The dick is hard. The handle feels good in my palm. I've put on the special "braces" attachment. Forgot to mention that -- this thing has about four different tips, but you can't really tell the difference on the flesh.

Grasping my cock firmly at its base, I slowly move it toward the Ordenta. I flinch momentarily, always worried that I'll be shocked at the roughness of the bristles. I'm not. But my cock has amnesia. It feels good, moving up and down the veins of my shaft, a bit ticklish around the crown of my cock, very ticklish across the piss-slit and down the dickhead.

Now I put it first on the right nipple, then on the more sensitive left one. It makes me laugh because the centrifugal force of the device always grabs my nipple and sends it spinning around the tip, over and over. Wind-up nipples? It feels good, but it looks pretty fucking silly. Especially when I'm stoned on acid. I'm glad no one can see me right now. I think about the time that Mom walked in on me wailing away on my pole when I was sixteen. Very close call.

And I think about how we're all basically looking for the same exact thing.

All trying to find mother Nature, mother Comfort, mother Superior, mother MOTHER a place to let go of your cheap flesh long enough to enjoy it and purrrrr like this little engine little dental machine goes for a while puuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......

But where oh wherrrrrrrrrrr did we learn to eroticize the sound of our own million little whirring engines? All so independent? So self-contained? All still need, still feed on mother's milk. Electric juice. Animal or mechanical, we all need fuel.

Engines open me up to where our possibilities extend. Next. Little electric tongues, little muscles, little cocks, little cunts. Engines have been pushing the envelope for a long time now, and that envelope is sealed with bodily fluids. "Sex machine" is about the pelvic thrust, that evolutionary push to the next frigging good step.

The little machine, it feels so good upon the earlobe...secretly, that's the best spot. I know you'd rather hear a story about how great it feels on my dick, and how it made me squirt five times, but truthfully, the Ordenta gives me eargasms, not cockgasms. I love the little motor, whirring so close to my ear. Inside, my head is vibrating with sound ... my own little engine ... my brain is in flames. Ohhhhh.... moan.....whirrrrr.....purrrr.......Little dental Ordenta engines pillowing me to one feathery climax higher than the last. On little engines our loftiest (sleaziest) thoughts and wishes reach their express delivery potential ... love....

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Now I am in the bathroom with the Ordenta, chewing on its bristles, and somehow that feels erotic, too. Those sexy teeth. Chewing on the bristles ... how human that is, an animal urge ... always the fleshly attempt to convert the mechanical into the more beastly, eh?

Did I forget to mention how good the damn thing feels when applied to its RIGHTEOUS purpose? Indeed, it is the finest dental instrument I have seen. Like a good lover, the Ordenta is gentle yet insistent.

It's about ... what it all comes down to is this ... we can only appreciate anything in its truly finest, most elemental components, by chewing up its bristles — reducing it to its measliest bits.

Which will always be impossible.

We don't really want to know how things are constructed, we just want them to work. Examination is just a means to an end. What we want is the comfort of reliability — yes, damn it, we're cheap sluts — we'll even settle for the promise of comfort. Which is the tease that the electronic umbilical cord holds out to us, seemingly infinite. But we're a small planet, and our power supply only remains infinite as long as our ingenuity keeps up with new ways to harness it before it all runs out. If that should fail, then — COLLAPSE. Entropy. Orgasm. But isn't that inevitable? Things fall apart. Every story has an ending. The endless dance of constructo-destructo whirrrr. See, even the roots of those words: Constructo. Destructo. Tells you that since the Latin days, we haven't found a better way of saying it yet.

So what are we all waiting for this GODDAMNED DEMON, yes, ELECTRIC BEAST to deliver us from? What jaws of the inescapable unknown?

Demise. Now, techno-geeks were the first to eroticize machines. And as every geek knows, no matter how far your passion transports you, you must still remember to hit the "save" button so that all traces of your existence here today will not be lost. But is that all that matters? I think not. I like to think I exist in some component far beyond my electronic trace.

Whirrrrrrrr.....I love the motors and engines that go humming through my life. But when I am given one, as did this dentist mine (so kind, so kind), must I respect it, worship it? Put it only to its rightful  use? But why? I'm a good consumer. I paid for it. Is it not mine? Do I not own it now? Did I not purchase the blasted thing with mine own seat? Mine own SWEAT, damn it? Is it not MINE yet?

Only as long as I pay the electric bill. Ownership is always conditional. And warranties always expire. No guarantee is infinite.

Still, the Ordenta is a lovely reminder that all of those nasty, painful trips to the dentist's chair couldn't have been so bad if he gave me such a nasty, delicious device!

The truth is that it's always you, baby. No matter what electronic dial, or device, or little comforting whirrrrrrr we can hook up in that elusive attempt to hang the goods somewhere else.

You are your own engine. This is what makes you respectable. Dangerous. Beautiful. Fiery.

Revel in your own glorious luminescence. And if that is enhanced for you by strapping on some device, you sure don't need my permission to go off and enjoy yourselves, OK?

That is what the little engines have taught me. Love is within. All the rest follows from that. Trust your own little internal engine. It's what keeps you ticking....

Love,

Bill

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Author's note: I wrote this story in 1997 for inclusion in an erotic anthology titled EROS EX MACHINA: Eroticizing the Mechanical (ed. M. Christian, Masquerade/Rhinoceros, 1-56333-593-X, March 1998), which was subsequently released in a somewhat altered form as SEX MACHINE (Venus Book Club, 0-7394-2356-X, 2002). Yes, I really did drop acid to write this. No animals or machines were harmed in the making of this work. Maybe some unnecessary brain cells.