january 8th (2004)

4ish, taking a cigarette break from cleaning.

There's a para. on the faerie website I need to quote for a story. It's all about what a faerie is and/or isn't. Is and/or isn't, that would be a good title (if nor for that, for something).

I heard about a writer on NPR recently, maybe he's dead, maybe that's why they were talking about him. They were talking about proliferance {sic} as a writer, and said he wrote a (or some, or "many") of his books in complete dialogue (or maybe "almost entirely in dialogue"). I was thinking that might be a good way to approach the faerie story--my faerie story.

It could start with the joke about the Indian (Native American) naming system with the punch line, "...so now you understand, Broken Rubber?" While telling that joke in West Virginia last year, stoned out of our minds on a ski resort weekend," I discovered my faerie name, Babbling Brooke. I don't know if I even finished the joke - but I'm an entertainer, so I'm sure I did - but when I said "babbling brook" in the telling of the joke, I stopped and said, "I think that's my faerie name, R," and he said, "I think you're right."