what tv show have you seen more than once?

@hunkalove

Ever watch Frasier? Daphne was comparing Martin to Col. Potter (who was also Sgt. Friday's sidekick, of course, in the newer version). Cripes that was a funny conversation!

@RenFur I've never seen it. I pretty much quit watching TV in 1966 when I was 16. I was more interested in my guitar and reading.

@hunkalove

And writing?

@RenFur Yes. Anything I liked I wanted to do. I wrote my first book when I was 7. It was about a kid who lived in a swamp in a house on stilts. He had a pet alligator. Some bad guys broke in to rob the place and the alligator ate them. The End. It was about three pages long but quite an accomplishment to me.

@hunkalove

Have u kept everything? All your writings? I guess as a kid of 7 you may not have thought of saving much.

@RenFur I don't own or keep much of anything. My writing over the last 15 years is on my gmail account and a thumb drive. I moved in here with a backpack and a sleeping bag and that's probably all I will leave with.

When I was 10 my 4th grade teacher liked a story I wrote and sent it to a children's magazine. They returned it and said they didn't publish stories by children! My first rejection slip.

@hunkalove About your possessions - -

"I don't want to be possessed by my possessions." I forget where I heard/saw that but it's stuck with me for decades.

@hunkalove

That is some story! Who else at the age - save maybe Hemingway or Fitzgerald, maybe - has a trophy like that: an official rejection slip?

@RenFur I've had a zillion of them. When I was in college in 1970 I had a poem published in Rolling Stone. It was 6 lines, two haikus that fit together, and I was paid very nicely for it. I thought I was on my way! It wasn't until several years later that I realized how bad the poetry in Rollong Stone was.

@hunkalove

But still - Rolling Stone! I did good getting a few poems "published" in my high school rag LOL