Christian

COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. (Jan. 19) - A scholarship named for writer J.D. Salinger will allow young writers with "quirky brilliance" to literally follow in his footsteps at Ursinus College.

Recipients of the newly created scholarship, announced Thursday, will get to live in Salinger's old dorm room at Ursinus, where the author of "The Catcher in the Rye" spent the fall semester of 1938.

The $25,000 annual award was developed by English professors Jon Volkmer and Matthew Kozusko and is designed for creative writers with distinctive voices and unusual perspectives - but not necessarily the best grades.

"As many great writers, including Salinger, have shown, the best writers are often not the best students," Volkmer said in a statement. "In the spirit of Holden Caulfield, we're looking to help out the quirky kid with unique vision. This is not just another award for the high SAT crowd."

Salinger's short stay at Ursinus included classes in English literature, composition, biology, history and French. He was also the drama critic for the student newspaper.

The reclusive writer isn't commenting on the scholarship, according to Ursinus officials.

But they point to a framed letter in the lobby of the school's admissions office, dated March 15, 1963, in which Salinger writes that he looks back "with a great deal of pleasure on my own days at Ursinus."

01/19/06 13:56 EST

I was reading Jay's profiled just now. Why? I have no idea! Got to do something to keep occupied, I guess. Or, do I do it to keep Jay occupied?

Anyway, he wrote this in his profile:

"I am the most neurotic person you will ever meet. (Did I spell neurotic right?)"

I don't believe him! I think I am the most neurotic person you will ever meet! There can be only One, which of us is the most neurotic person you have ever met?

FACTS:

1.Jay actually wrote he was the most neurotic person in his own profile

2.Christian has been called neurotic by his girlfriend

3.Jay isn't sure he knows how to spell neurotic

You Decide!

I have finally surpassed James and entered the coveted Top 5!

It was a war of attrition, I knew I'd eventually win.

Only my postings get relegated to the dark, smoky, backrooms of the Forum.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I've always wanted to see something done with Erundur. He seems like a great potential character that no one knows what to do with. He's been part of the cast since Feb. 5th of last year, but has yet to make a single post! Imagine the possibilites of what you could do with Erundur!

Yeah, but those relaunches usually come across as desperate attempts. They're never as good as the original. The original one eventually got cancelled for a reason. Sadly, this was a case of a great series being ruined by low sales, but putting a HOT NEW writer who swear a lot on the book and using the desperate plot of "protaganist gets unmasked" isn't going to attract new readers in this over-glutted Forum.

If you've read the "Brokenhearted" thread lately, you'll know what I'm talking about.

Now, that thread has a serious purpose (like an early-90s Vertigo comic), and there's no room for humour in it, so we're moving this conversation to its own thread.

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All right, the Anon story-line is ended and the writers have gotten desperate.

Plots are over-used, have been dragging on too long, or make no sense. Characters are uninteresting, worn out, or not likeable.

The writers are asking you to come up with the "Next Great Voices From Beyond" plot!

All you have to do is take existing Forum members and create a BRAND NEW, NEVER BEFORE SEEN STORY-LINE involving them!

The greatest entry will be promoted from "character piece" to "Forum writer", and will be given a one-year contract to write all new story-lines for Forum members for the rest of the year!

Points awarded for:

A.)Originality

B.)Angst!

C.)Avoiding Image Comic characters

D.)Stories must have beginning, middle, and some sort of ending

E.)Grammar, spelling, and syntax do count!

Suggestion:

Why not, instead of using ROGAN in all your plots, take a lesser Forum member and completely recreate them using Morrisonian techniques to make people actually care about them. You don't have to do this, but remember what Alan Moore did with a character named "Swamp Thing" back in the early-80s.

:icon_cry: :icon_frown:

I may need another "Intervention".

Who's bringing the beer?

Who's bringing the women? :lol:

I've made it well known that I like women with some fat on them.

Especially with a big, fat, wide ass.

Uh, yeah. I think it's obvious without any explanation. Just pick one and tell us about it.

Theres one thing I find ironic from this whole thing tho. It's that Rogan told me to tone down my humor. Everybody else didnt. They just jumped on band wagon. But Rogan of all people, The guy who has to edit everybodies post into puns. Told me to "Tone down the humor". I find that quite ironic. One idiot said to the other idiot "Hey, Stop being such an idiot."

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We're just trying to turn the Forum into a Communist State. Sadly, instead of me or Red becoming Premiere, Rogan got the position since he's actually lived in a Communist country.

Kenya? A whole country?! Or, did I misread that.....?

I thought it was Tina that said that, or maybe that was a different quote....

Yeah, I understand that's Ruskoff's intent, but it's not working.

"I thought it would be more the expression in the eyes .....

you know, sort of "pretty please" expression there ......"

Awww, like they're begging you to like them.

I have a picture of Terri where she had this sort of doe in the headlights, pleading look in her eyes. Like she was saying, "Please say I look pretty."

It melted my heart!

Testament #2-I like the story and the writing, but this whole "Biblical reference" thing isn't working! The author is taking random Bible stories and attempting to force them to fit with plots that have a neglible connection to that story.

Ruskoff would be better served to just concentrate on the dystopian story and give it Biblical overtones (hinting at the connection to "Revelations", etc.).

Sodom & Gommorah references felt much more at home in Morrison's "Kid Eternity" than they do here.

It makes me actually wonder what Rushkoff was planning, or if he just decided it would be a way to set "Testament" apart from the other 30 dystopian, Orwellian, post-9/11 futures on the market?

I rank the Biblical contrivance as a hinderance!

I might give the book more time, just based on the actual plot, but I'm thinking this shoe-horning of Biblical motifs will wear on me soon.

It's not an easy or stress-free job, certainly.

It will probably only serve to destroy what is left of my fragile psyche.

But, I'll be doing something good for a living, something that is very helpful for people.

Do you study the "secret language of flowers"? In that, every flower means something different when you give it to a lady.

Yellow roses=a lost love or tragic romance (for example)

Amazingly enough (actually only too apt) that was Terri's favourite flower.....

You think they were serious about the "American" remark? I think they were just taking the piss.

Not only is God a member here, according to the front page of this website, he's the newest registered member, which means that we all have seniority over him! HA!

I think we'll be doing the ordering from now on, God.

Hey! What do you know! I listened to my cellphone message tonite, and I actually got a job. Will wonders never cease?

I have a job at the Child Advocacy Center of Greater Flint. I'll be working part-time, 2 days a week, listening to taped testimony of children relating tales of sexual abuse and giving a psychological evaluation based on the interviews. I write a report based on my expertise, and hand it to social workers and police working pedophilia/sexual abuse cases.

Many people think I'm an introvert but they're all stupid fuckers that bore me so I can't be bothered to socialise and interact with them.

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This tends to be true for me a lot of the time!

Doesn't change my answer, but sometimes that is the reason why I tend to avoid people.

Yeah, McDonald's doesn't offer much here in the U.S.

No Mexican food, no pizzas, no alcohol....

Just cheap hamburgers, stale fries, Coke, and Happy Meals.

Those pesky "sebtences"! :lol: :wink:

You're correct about the failure of the school system, not bothering to teach writing skills.

People with specialization in writing are very much in demand at places like G.M. in the U.S. (not sure about Canada or Europe?), and can make a ton of money if they choose to work there.

Just did.

When was this originally written, do you know?

I've never been fond of reading these, as obviously they are meant to be spoken word, read to an audience.

But, it is a good tale.

"He sought for Stoya and Stoyan, for like names had the twain;"

This grates on me.

Of course, it's nowhere near as prominent as in the Greek verses.

" he is American, after all."

This part was HILARIOUS! :lol:

Everyone here knows I have very little training when it comes to computers. Inca just taught me how to Quote y.d., and I still don't know all the rules when it comes to this. I also just learned how to post a picture y.d., and it took me half an hour to figure out how to apply it.

So, no one taught me any "correct way to type". I use two fingers to type out my posts, and actually do "two-finger typing" pretty damn quickly by now (like Rogan said, you learn after posting as much as we do around here)!

If your problem is actually a matter of "not realizing how to type properly", you can take the time to minimally proof-read your sentences before bothering to post them.

I think the problem is grammar, syntax, and spelling.