Introduction
This blog is the online representative of my writing throughout the 1990s. Fortunately or unfortunately, I do not write like this anymore. I intended to publish the zaniest bits in a book entitled Utter Weirdness. There will be no such book written by the current me.
For a good portion of the nineties, I was socially awkward--weird. I guess the term "weird" is still somewhat of a compliment for teenagers. Instead of interacting with people awkwardly, I chose to compose weird pieces of writing. However, it's not the same writing as one would find in Weird Tales. Writing, college, and my first teaching job helped me overcome my sense of being weird. The transition was kind of like this: shy guy to immature prankster to goofy reactionary to apparently less weird.
After a lot of self-reflection and analysis, I believe I was actually quite normal. I was just behind in social development, and I believe I'm somewhat in the "normal" range. I can be weird if I want to be, but I'm not constantly in a state of weirdness like I thought I was for the last decade of the 20th Century.
So here it is, the utterly weird writing of Jeremy, 1990-2000. If you prefer not to read in this random order, use the labels to read by genre or time period (high school, college, first teaching job).
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Bromine
Bromine starts with the letter "B." Many other words start with the letter "B" such as: be, bee, bad, baffle, bag, baggie, badge, badger, back, ball, balloon, BAM!, ban, bagpipes, bar, barricade, barrier, bass, base, bake, bail, bane, bear, bait, bat, bay, etc., etc., etc.
The second letter in bromine is the letter "r." Many other words have "r" as the second letter such as: brag, Bradford, break, brake, brawl, brand, brick, drive, dry, drunk, drill, drag, dragster, drought, fry, Friday, Frau, friend, frizzy, fraternity, freeze, frigid, frill, frock, grow, grin, grace, grouch, grinch, growl, grade, gravel, grenade, grudge, train, treat, trick, trowel, travel, trinket, trill, trot, true, triangle, tree, etc., etc.
"O" is the middle vowel in bromine. Many other words have "o" as the middle vowel such as: ZOWIE!, your, wombat, woman, whoa, work, world, word, vodka, tot, Thor, sock, spore, show, roll, rock, wrong, OOO!, pot, pronto, throttle, God, dog, abode, bog, love, etc., etc.
The last letter in bromine is the silent "e." Many other words have the silent "e" as the last letter such as: have, came, take, name, cake, female, shame, Jane, ape, care, face, late, Wayne, heave, crepe, grease, Crete, I've, dine, hike, lime, like, mime, file, line, hype, fire, ice, kite, stove, home, choke, Rome, broke, hole, home, hone, hope, whore, close, wrote, Louvre, puke, fume, Luke, rule, June, sure, loose, flue, Jacksonville, Shakespeare, etc., etc., etc., etc.
Bromine is a reject in the arts, but a blessing in the sciences. Most poets don't use the bromine in their poems. Bromine is not used greatly as the main ingredient in any cake, casserole, or any other food item. People won't read about bromine in many novels. The Beatles had many songs, but none of them were about bromine. Shakespeare never involved bromine in his plays. Finally, there are no movies or television shows about this silent chemical that lies as number thirty-five upon the periodic table of chemicals.
Bromine is a very ugly liquid: reddish-brown. That color could be useful to color bricks if bricks lose their color. It could be used as rust, since it is corrosive. Rust and bromine are almost the same, but yet they're not. One reason is that they're both spelled extremely different. More people fear rust than bromine, because they don't know what bromine is? That's what this essay's all about: to inform the common human of bromine.
In summary, bromine is a liquid and a chemical at the same time. It's always a chemical, but not always a liquid just like the number brown.
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