Sunday, December 27

 

The Buzzard Cult

 

Q:  The Buzzard Cult must have gone through withdrawal in December, with no entries to read at The Daily Bulletin.

 

A:  I felt bad not posting to my web site.

      I felt like I was letting my readers down.

 

Q:  All three of them.

 

A:  I’d say it’s closer to 5-10.

 

Q:  If I go to a website and they have stopped posting—have gone on hiatus—I never go back.

      It’s a sign of incipient burnout.

 

A:  I’m just old, and had mechanical difficulties.

      I can’t keep up with the technology.

 

Q:  Some small press writers never made the transition to computers.

 

A:  I know.  I kept up until recently.

      I think a weblog—or an online journal (OLJ)—was literature, if it was written by a writer who conceived of what he was doing as creating a body of work—an oeuvre-complète.

      Indeed, it was the only place left for an author to create an oeuvre complete, in these heathen days.

 

Q:  And in Double-Sawbuck (XX):  Twenty Months of Daily Typewriting, you are just going to complete 40-Year Run.

 

A:  Yes.  The good lord willing and the creek don’t rise.

 

Q:  Not as a blog, or not even as an online journal (OLJ), but just as the form the work assumed, doing it, online, daily, in real time:  daily typewriting.

 

A:  Yes.

      I’ve been doing it since March 18, 2000.  That’s a fair sample.

      Books I’ve read, movies I’ve watched, recipes I cooked.

      Fish I caught and ate.

      I remember every fish I ever ate.  In fact, I remember every fish I ever caught.

 

Q:  You can’t even remember all the books you wrote.

 

A:  No, but I can look it up.

 


 

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