Originally written July 17, 2010
Characters in Bulgolgi (in DC)
Joseph Flanagan:
24 year old male
failing marriage
makes prosthetic limbs and works at a restaurant
Mark Switzer
24 year old male
strange but happy realtionship
Manages a bookstore
Felicia Tolley
22 year old female
college student
girlfriend of mark
Nicole Kelsey Flanagan
22 year old female
crazy
married to, then divorced to Joseph Flanagan
The story opens with the interplay of these four characters
Joseph is introduced in Habitaciones
Nicole should be introduced by her guy timeline. She calls each of these points her "chapters" and is excited to have Joseph as the "final chapter"
Mark is a college buddy of Joseph Flanagan. He should embody the collective U (including HS C. Linehan)
Felicia Tolley
Josh ? The Pisser
Meets Felicia on spring break. Felicia is drunk and messes around with the guy. They have a relationship for 7 months. Josh comes to visit and gets drunk tailgaiting. Felicia goes to take a nap afer the game. Josh gets in bed with her. Keeps lifting back the covers to check out Felicia's cute underwear. Felicia, "dude seriously, I'm trying to take a nap so uh, hands off the merchandise" in a good southern drawl. Josh doesn't take the hint. Felicia goes to shower (locks herself in the baño). Josh passes out and pisses the bed. Felicia wakes him up to go to dinner. She touches his chest, which is soaked. He showers. She discovers he's pissed the bed, put a towell on the wet spot and put a fan pointed directly on the bed. At dinner Josh gets real drunk again. Passes out in the living room. Told to leave the nextday. Josh, "I'm sorry. I just don't understand. Did I do something wrong?" Felicia: "If you don't know honestly I don't know what to tell you. Next day it's discovered that Josh pissed the comforter he slept on in the living room. Three months later the towells he used to clean up the second piss are discovered behind the bookcase when Felicia moves out.
Story Line (linear)
A. - Introduction of 4 DC Characters. Some incredibly awkward double dates between Josh Flanagan & Nicole Kelsey Flanagan and Mark Switzer and Felicia Tolley
NL1 Introductions: Joseph Flanagan, Mark Switzer, Felicia, Nicole
B. The Break up
NL 2 Break up stories 5 or 6 rapid fire
C. The misery
D. The Self-Help vs. The DR
E. Arriving in the DR
E3. DR Characters
NL3 imaginary existence of 4 main DC characters 20 years from now (dramitically bleak) - funny though
E2
E3
F. Leaves the DR
G.
NL 4 Summary of Baseball experiences. 3 parts: playing, watching, collecting (movement of purity to corruption) Mention his unpublished satirical Essay, "Clean Race" or whatever I called it
NL 5 Latenight at Walmart
H.
Z. Gets a call from Comedy Central to do a made for tv movie.
A-D in DC
E-F Stories from the DR
E2-E3 The Bulgolgi
G-H Book tour
Plotline
JF & Nicole break up
JF slips into misery
-pivot point looking at offer to do peace core in DR or read the self help books
JF in DR
The Bulgolgi
JF returns to States
Book Tour
Comedy Central Calls
Saturday, July 17, 2010
A conversation between Joseph and Mark
Originally written 7/17/2010
Mark: Do you see that fuckstick over there? Seriously the dude's got to be 40 and he's drinking a juice box and reading a Where's Waldo book.
Joseph: What is a fuckstick exactly?
Mark: Are you really ciriticizing my vulgarities now? Stop avoiding the topic and focus for a minute. Do you not see the problem the new America is facing these days? Here we are, twenty four year old men, and I say men in the loosest of fashions, sitting in your run of the mill, hipster, Neo-Bohemian coffee shop sipping on lattes and eating donuts discussing the prospect of the new Madden Game. What do we have to look up to? What is there to aspire to? I don't want to be 40, sitting in this same damn coffee shop dirking a juice box reading a Where's Waldo book.
Joseph: What is a prospecti?
Mark: Son of a bitch! Prospecti, the plural of prospectus. Fuckstick, a douche bag male who is doing something utterly inane, pointless and thus - soul killing. Will you pleas drop the philological rebuttals so we can face this looming disaster. Fifty years ago every twenty-four year old was out saving the world from ruthless dictators. We're sitting in a coffee shop. What does that say about us?
Joseph: Did you get soy in your latte? Your girlfriend made me promise that you would get soy or skim.
Mark: I got whole milk like a true, red-blooded human being of the male persuasion. I would have squeezed it out of a cow if I could and bypassed the unwarranted sanitization process altogher. Answer the question.
Joseph: Fine, I thin that we are not saving the world from imperialism because it no longer poses an existential crisis to America.
Mark: Exactly. The existinetial crisis we face is from within. Just from your conotation we can see the problem with every generation since our grandparents'. They fought for freedom from opression and then their hippy scumbag kids got high and reanalyzed and reinterpreted history to show us, their kids, that America fought against imperialism. They told us that imperialism was bad, not just the evil dictators. Imperialism is what made us great and now we have to feel guilty about it and apologize to everyone not born into America. I mean, realistically I'm not saying we need to invade Canada to extend our territory, but we shouldn't have to apologize to the world for being succseful.
Fuckstick: Ha!
Mark: Fuckstick found Waldo. All I'm saying is that the proble is this: High School is the new middle school, college the new high school, grad school the new college. The twenties are the new teens and we can aspire to be 40 with a ridiculous frat tattoo sipping on a juice box looking at the newest Where's Waldo book.
Joseph: My point exactly! This is my greatest fear
(pause)
Mark: You think the game store is open yet?
Joseph: Yeah, it opened twenty minutes ago. I tried to tell you but you went on a sociological rant and criticized my philological angle to the discussion.
Mark: Well, let's get the hell out of here so we can grab the Madden game. Oh, and if Julie asked if it was a decaf, half soy, half skim. It's my new favorite.
Joseph: New favorite drink or lie?
Mark: Is there really a difference?
Mark: Do you see that fuckstick over there? Seriously the dude's got to be 40 and he's drinking a juice box and reading a Where's Waldo book.
Joseph: What is a fuckstick exactly?
Mark: Are you really ciriticizing my vulgarities now? Stop avoiding the topic and focus for a minute. Do you not see the problem the new America is facing these days? Here we are, twenty four year old men, and I say men in the loosest of fashions, sitting in your run of the mill, hipster, Neo-Bohemian coffee shop sipping on lattes and eating donuts discussing the prospect of the new Madden Game. What do we have to look up to? What is there to aspire to? I don't want to be 40, sitting in this same damn coffee shop dirking a juice box reading a Where's Waldo book.
Joseph: What is a prospecti?
Mark: Son of a bitch! Prospecti, the plural of prospectus. Fuckstick, a douche bag male who is doing something utterly inane, pointless and thus - soul killing. Will you pleas drop the philological rebuttals so we can face this looming disaster. Fifty years ago every twenty-four year old was out saving the world from ruthless dictators. We're sitting in a coffee shop. What does that say about us?
Joseph: Did you get soy in your latte? Your girlfriend made me promise that you would get soy or skim.
Mark: I got whole milk like a true, red-blooded human being of the male persuasion. I would have squeezed it out of a cow if I could and bypassed the unwarranted sanitization process altogher. Answer the question.
Joseph: Fine, I thin that we are not saving the world from imperialism because it no longer poses an existential crisis to America.
Mark: Exactly. The existinetial crisis we face is from within. Just from your conotation we can see the problem with every generation since our grandparents'. They fought for freedom from opression and then their hippy scumbag kids got high and reanalyzed and reinterpreted history to show us, their kids, that America fought against imperialism. They told us that imperialism was bad, not just the evil dictators. Imperialism is what made us great and now we have to feel guilty about it and apologize to everyone not born into America. I mean, realistically I'm not saying we need to invade Canada to extend our territory, but we shouldn't have to apologize to the world for being succseful.
Fuckstick: Ha!
Mark: Fuckstick found Waldo. All I'm saying is that the proble is this: High School is the new middle school, college the new high school, grad school the new college. The twenties are the new teens and we can aspire to be 40 with a ridiculous frat tattoo sipping on a juice box looking at the newest Where's Waldo book.
Joseph: My point exactly! This is my greatest fear
(pause)
Mark: You think the game store is open yet?
Joseph: Yeah, it opened twenty minutes ago. I tried to tell you but you went on a sociological rant and criticized my philological angle to the discussion.
Mark: Well, let's get the hell out of here so we can grab the Madden game. Oh, and if Julie asked if it was a decaf, half soy, half skim. It's my new favorite.
Joseph: New favorite drink or lie?
Mark: Is there really a difference?
The Joseph Flanagan Saga
From "Observations of Joseph Flanagan (and More)"
Originally written July 17, 2010
7 Books of Joseph Flanagan
- Philosophy Major
- Author
- Divorceé
- 7 because 7 is the number of completion.
- Books because I don't have a movie camera (or actors)
The Joseph Flanagan Saga
1. Habitaciones con Baños: Joseph reclaims life, divorce and Bulgolgi
2. In search of the World's Greatest Beef Bulgogi: The coping with the divorce
3. The Death of Joseph Flanagan: Seven alternative stories to one outcome
4. A Second Bite at the Apple: Topical Autobiography
5. From the Dominican: Joseph on his peace core mission: gua gua, concho and A-Car
6. Disasters of the All-American boy (childhood stories age 0 - 13)
7. The Arbitrary Last Book of Joseph Flanagan (loose ends of all characters from the other 6 books)
Originally written July 17, 2010
7 Books of Joseph Flanagan
- Philosophy Major
- Author
- Divorceé
- 7 because 7 is the number of completion.
- Books because I don't have a movie camera (or actors)
The Joseph Flanagan Saga
1. Habitaciones con Baños: Joseph reclaims life, divorce and Bulgolgi
2. In search of the World's Greatest Beef Bulgogi: The coping with the divorce
3. The Death of Joseph Flanagan: Seven alternative stories to one outcome
4. A Second Bite at the Apple: Topical Autobiography
5. From the Dominican: Joseph on his peace core mission: gua gua, concho and A-Car
6. Disasters of the All-American boy (childhood stories age 0 - 13)
7. The Arbitrary Last Book of Joseph Flanagan (loose ends of all characters from the other 6 books)
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
What?
(Originally Written March 30, 2010 in the Journal)
In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were beautiful. But, when man claimed these truths as their own, the beautiful truths turned the men into grotesques.
In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were beautiful. But, when man claimed these truths as their own, the beautiful truths turned the men into grotesques.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Writing Overview
(Originally Written March 29, 2010 in the Journal)
My long neglected Ashley! We had such high hopes for the two of us and yet I have ignored you so thoroughly. Accept my apology and I will now inform you of what is going through my literary head and fill your pages with my newest ideas.
1) The House of Urtsiul
The house of Urtsiul is the story of Urtsiul and the two branches of his family. Urtsiul is an exile from a southern Mesopotamian city-state who in his banishment ends up in ancient Palestine under the service of the king of Shacmu. He serves with distinction and has two sons: Uslmi and Ugui. After some time he dies and leaves one city each of his sons.
Uslmli is a righteous man, but Ugui is not. When a new king is crowned in Shacmu Ugui insults him and is banished only to return with an army. Uslmli meanwhile has four sons: Upuk, Ezinn, XA and XB (sorry I don't remember the names of the last two off the top of my head.
Uslmli winds up defeating Ugui in battle but takes his own life when he believes Ugui has murdered his four sons. In reality, Ugui has just kidnapped them and escaped to Hattusas, the Hittite capital.
In Hattusas Ugui becomes powerful and extends the Hittite King Mursili's territory. When the king of Shacmu comes to claim Ugui for crimes Ugui defeats them and Shacmu falls to Mursili. Mursili needs to place Jebus in charge of Shacmu and his descendants become the Jebusites.
The story then follows the accounts of the four children of Uslmli, youngest to oldest.
The first story is the youngest son who captures coastal cities and builds an empire. He falls in love with a captured princess named Phoenixa and names his kingdom after her (The Phoenicians). But, Phoenixa betrays him because of his cruel treatment of her family.
The second story follows the son who is tossed at sea and winds up shipwrecked on Crete. There he is proclaimed a god because of size and bronze skin color. He has sex with the wife of Vulcan who in his rage kindles his fire too hot while making weapons and destroys the cities of Crete (Need more Minas inferences to secure connection with Minoan civilization).
The Third son works as a mercenary and fights at Megiddo but switches to the Egyptian side. After securing victory he goes to Egypt and becomes very religious. He becomes convinced if he doesn't put cremated bodies in ashes then the ghosts of all he has killed will haunt him and his family forever. He is run out of Egypt as a madman but his prophecies take hold throughout Europe where he founds a kingdom.
Upuk, the oldest, travels north into the Ural mountains and founds a nation of no people. he builds two imperial cities and a number of settlements but is lonely when the work is done. He comes across Nok, a river nymph and immortal. He takes her as a wife and they have children.
Upuk begins to fear he will not have wives for his sons. Nok sends word out and immediately an illegitimate son of Upuk comes up with a following. Nok warns her husband not to marry their children to this man's entourage but he does anyway. Nok leaves and Upuk dies of a broken heart. His son takes the throne but is killed by an usurper.
(Up to this point is written in rough drafts)
2) The Book of Dates
The book of dates is a collection of short stories based on particular dates of importance in my life. Some are long; some are very short.
3) Habitaciones con Banos
The story of Joseph Flannigan and his writer's block. Joseph Flannigan travels to the DR for some inspiration for his sophomore novel. His first was successful satire. The book encompasses his misadventures and a collection of short stories he writes that become his book.
4) The Divorce and The Bulgogi
Prequel to Habitaciones
5) The Shattered Peace of Jefferson
This my Ashley will be the story we tell. This will be the pseudohistory of a little town in Indiana
up until a murder rocks the small town as told through the eyes of a neighbor who didn't know the people as well as they thought.
My long neglected Ashley! We had such high hopes for the two of us and yet I have ignored you so thoroughly. Accept my apology and I will now inform you of what is going through my literary head and fill your pages with my newest ideas.
1) The House of Urtsiul
The house of Urtsiul is the story of Urtsiul and the two branches of his family. Urtsiul is an exile from a southern Mesopotamian city-state who in his banishment ends up in ancient Palestine under the service of the king of Shacmu. He serves with distinction and has two sons: Uslmi and Ugui. After some time he dies and leaves one city each of his sons.
Uslmli is a righteous man, but Ugui is not. When a new king is crowned in Shacmu Ugui insults him and is banished only to return with an army. Uslmli meanwhile has four sons: Upuk, Ezinn, XA and XB (sorry I don't remember the names of the last two off the top of my head.
Uslmli winds up defeating Ugui in battle but takes his own life when he believes Ugui has murdered his four sons. In reality, Ugui has just kidnapped them and escaped to Hattusas, the Hittite capital.
In Hattusas Ugui becomes powerful and extends the Hittite King Mursili's territory. When the king of Shacmu comes to claim Ugui for crimes Ugui defeats them and Shacmu falls to Mursili. Mursili needs to place Jebus in charge of Shacmu and his descendants become the Jebusites.
The story then follows the accounts of the four children of Uslmli, youngest to oldest.
The first story is the youngest son who captures coastal cities and builds an empire. He falls in love with a captured princess named Phoenixa and names his kingdom after her (The Phoenicians). But, Phoenixa betrays him because of his cruel treatment of her family.
The second story follows the son who is tossed at sea and winds up shipwrecked on Crete. There he is proclaimed a god because of size and bronze skin color. He has sex with the wife of Vulcan who in his rage kindles his fire too hot while making weapons and destroys the cities of Crete (Need more Minas inferences to secure connection with Minoan civilization).
The Third son works as a mercenary and fights at Megiddo but switches to the Egyptian side. After securing victory he goes to Egypt and becomes very religious. He becomes convinced if he doesn't put cremated bodies in ashes then the ghosts of all he has killed will haunt him and his family forever. He is run out of Egypt as a madman but his prophecies take hold throughout Europe where he founds a kingdom.
Upuk, the oldest, travels north into the Ural mountains and founds a nation of no people. he builds two imperial cities and a number of settlements but is lonely when the work is done. He comes across Nok, a river nymph and immortal. He takes her as a wife and they have children.
Upuk begins to fear he will not have wives for his sons. Nok sends word out and immediately an illegitimate son of Upuk comes up with a following. Nok warns her husband not to marry their children to this man's entourage but he does anyway. Nok leaves and Upuk dies of a broken heart. His son takes the throne but is killed by an usurper.
(Up to this point is written in rough drafts)
2) The Book of Dates
The book of dates is a collection of short stories based on particular dates of importance in my life. Some are long; some are very short.
3) Habitaciones con Banos
The story of Joseph Flannigan and his writer's block. Joseph Flannigan travels to the DR for some inspiration for his sophomore novel. His first was successful satire. The book encompasses his misadventures and a collection of short stories he writes that become his book.
4) The Divorce and The Bulgogi
Prequel to Habitaciones
5) The Shattered Peace of Jefferson
This my Ashley will be the story we tell. This will be the pseudohistory of a little town in Indiana
up until a murder rocks the small town as told through the eyes of a neighbor who didn't know the people as well as they thought.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Notes on Theogony
(Originally written March 3, 2010 in the Journal)
Theogony
Hesiod
Mnemosyne - memory
Aphrodite - came from froth and she presides over the whispers, smiles and tricks which girls employ
Ceto - monster
Eros - desire
Epimetheus - brings bad luck on men
"This was the origin of the damnable race of women - a plague men must live with"
"So Zeus the thunder god made women mischievous in their ways and a curse for men"
Metis - wisdom
Themis - law
The purpose of the fates (Clotho, Lachesis and Atropus) is to dispense good and evil to mankind.
Clotho - spinner
Lachesis - allotter
Atropus - inflexible
Euphrosyne - happiness
Thalia - festivity
Ares - the sacker of cities, father of panic and fear
Memnon - the king of the Ethiopians, known by his bronze crest
I read the Theogony in about an hour. It was good and I'll use some of it for The House of Urtsiul.
Theogony
Hesiod
Mnemosyne - memory
Aphrodite - came from froth and she presides over the whispers, smiles and tricks which girls employ
Ceto - monster
Eros - desire
Epimetheus - brings bad luck on men
"This was the origin of the damnable race of women - a plague men must live with"
"So Zeus the thunder god made women mischievous in their ways and a curse for men"
Metis - wisdom
Themis - law
The purpose of the fates (Clotho, Lachesis and Atropus) is to dispense good and evil to mankind.
Clotho - spinner
Lachesis - allotter
Atropus - inflexible
Euphrosyne - happiness
Thalia - festivity
Ares - the sacker of cities, father of panic and fear
Memnon - the king of the Ethiopians, known by his bronze crest
I read the Theogony in about an hour. It was good and I'll use some of it for The House of Urtsiul.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Notes on The Metamorphoses
(Originally Written March 1, 2010 in the Journal)
Notes on Ovid's Metamorphoses
I'm already in Book VI!
"She was as beautiful as an angry woman can be" Very funny, use this in Habitaciones after the double date from Hell.
Love made him eloquent
The sky was dark and heavy, its weight pressing down on the earth, man both noble and common alike. It trapped the heat in and southerly winds blew cruel and ill-fortuned winds on them. For two moons the heat oppressed the land of Upuk and withered crops to dust. The sturdy beasts melted away and sheep shore their own wool, their dying bleats echoed through the hills. The four rivers dried and the center pool threatened an emptiness until the worship of the sun creased. The might king cast out the priests of the sun and restored the land to its former gods. (A plague scene and banishment of the sun cult).
"For I am burning with love, and its flame scorches me more fiercely when I am spurned"
Not struggles, but sheer laziness came to be what delayed my finishing of the Metamorphoses.
I really enjoyed this book until book fifteen that became pure propaganda for Augustus. It is amazing that art can become kitschy so quickly. But, book XV aside, it was great. The last line again, like from The Amores shows Ovid's ego - which I love.
"If there be any truth in poets' prophecies I shall live to all eternity, immortalized by fame"
Notes on Ovid's Metamorphoses
I'm already in Book VI!
"She was as beautiful as an angry woman can be" Very funny, use this in Habitaciones after the double date from Hell.
Love made him eloquent
The sky was dark and heavy, its weight pressing down on the earth, man both noble and common alike. It trapped the heat in and southerly winds blew cruel and ill-fortuned winds on them. For two moons the heat oppressed the land of Upuk and withered crops to dust. The sturdy beasts melted away and sheep shore their own wool, their dying bleats echoed through the hills. The four rivers dried and the center pool threatened an emptiness until the worship of the sun creased. The might king cast out the priests of the sun and restored the land to its former gods. (A plague scene and banishment of the sun cult).
"For I am burning with love, and its flame scorches me more fiercely when I am spurned"
Not struggles, but sheer laziness came to be what delayed my finishing of the Metamorphoses.
I really enjoyed this book until book fifteen that became pure propaganda for Augustus. It is amazing that art can become kitschy so quickly. But, book XV aside, it was great. The last line again, like from The Amores shows Ovid's ego - which I love.
"If there be any truth in poets' prophecies I shall live to all eternity, immortalized by fame"
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