Dwellar Dwellings

[monster]

Wonderful!

You need to send me your address so I can send you a box of Kleenex, though....

(sniffing's bad for your throat, dude)

[classicman]

Holy crap - Its been downloading for like an hour.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Took me about 10 minutes, running slow tonight.

[lumberjim]

you've got a lot of crap, pat!

thanks for the tour!

[Elspode]

Sorry about sniffling like a coke addict. I seem to have worse allergies in the Winter than any other time of year, and those are worst during the morning, which is when I shot that damn thing. I also note that I was kinda ripping through the narration, so I probably sounded like a meth head to top it all off. I'm not.

[monster]

It was excellent, splode ...the sniffing thing is the mom in me

[classicman]

Spode - you rock - that was awesome! Great place, great guy - A perfect fit!
worth the 45 mins it took for my POS computer to download it.

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by classicman

worth the 45 mins it took for my POS computer to download it.

That may be nicest thing anyone has ever said to me!

[glatt]

Spode, I downloaded it last night, and only had a chance to watch the first couple minutes. But from what I've seen so far, I like your place. That Big Bertha stove, melting the floor tiles must be a pretty impressive event to witness. I also like your herb collection. You could open a store!

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Elspode

That may be nicest thing anyone has ever said to me!

Thanks, but I wonder if you really have any idea of the impact some of what you write has on other people. I don't know what you do for a living, but damn well better include writing. If not, you surely have missed you calling and the world is worse off for it.
(less they read your tidbits here on the cellar)

[Elspode]

Well, shit. Now, *that's* the nicest thing anyone has said to me.

I've mentioned before that I have written professionally exactly twice in my life, both times in very limited formats and for limited audiences. I did very well as an editor/arts reviewer/editorialist for the UMKC (University of Missouri-Kansas City) UNews. My work was well received by readers, and most importantly to me at the time, lauded by the professorial sponsor of the newspaper. He repeatedly cited my work as the best of all the staff, and when he was critical, it was unerringly constructive and totally valid. Odd...I never met the man, but I will carry his praise and critiques with me to the grave. He was absolutely dead on.

My only other "publish for pay" instance was a sidebar thing that I wrote for the KC edition of The Pitch. It was a horrid experience. I was writing about a fairly serious event that was in the "elaboration on upcoming events" section, a weekend seminar given by a highly qualified and well known Reiki master from Australia. I wrote and rerwrote this trifling piece five times (and we're talking a five paragraph article, here), only to have it repeatedly rejected by the twenty-something section editor, who wanted it to be "edgier, more flippant, trendier..."

My biggest limitation in writing is that I really only do well when describing reality. I rarely succeed in fabricating quality work out of nothing. Even the few songs I've written over the years are always based on reality.

But I do very much appreciate the support I always get from my Cellar family. In truth, it is this sort of positive strokes that matter to me. The rest is bullshit.

[Griff]

Crap, I can't get it to load. I'll try later...

[Chocolatl]

Cool place, Elspode! I love that you have separate areas for ritual space -- hopefully someday I'll have a house with that kind of room. (I also envy the amount of counter space in your kitchen.)

[Chocolatl]

Kitsune and I are supposed to close on our first home Thursday or Friday of this week and will be moving in over the weekend! Is it sad that one of the things I am most looking forward to is doing a new video tour?

[glatt]

Congratulations! That's awesome. I loved the feeling of buying our house.