well, this is awkward...

[karpe]

SO, in Illinois today there were the exalted PSAEs (Prairie State Achievement exams) and their evil younger stepchildren the PLANs.

well, the writing portion had an awful, awful prompt: A newspaper columnist wrote a column in which he downplayed heroes. he still said he believed that children could pick good heroes...

Pick a person you really admire and write an essay to the columnist about who they are and why they are a hero or heroine. The best ones will be printed in the editorial section...

Pick at least three good reasons and tell enough about the person so that everyone will know they are a hero... and so on and so forth.

I won't even bother picking through the many, many holes in that prompt (fake incentives like being published in a fake newspaper??) but anyway.

I wrote about Owen.

so there.

[victoria]

Awkward? That's great! I love being able to fit into school writing about things I actually care about.
I wrote a 10-pg university essay for my electronica class on my favourite musician (who...err...is occasionally compared with Owen, from London, last name of an animal, etc..). On that same topic, someone did theirs on Owen last semester.

[IamFrostey]

Awkwardly enough, I drew a picture of Owen and included it in my portfolio for my application at the Massachusetts College of Art.

I guess they liked it.



I should stick to cartoons.

[heterocera]

Yeah, one time I used him in a job interview for the top three people you could ever sit down and have lunch with. I didn't get the job...

P.S. IamFrostey: that's such a sweet drawing. I'm quite impressed.

[Ren]

Uh, yeah, suitably awkward. I've done similar things. Like the time Owen won the Polaris prize and I wanted people to know, so I wrote an article for WLU's The Cord...(It got on CUP--the Canadian University Press!)

Happy end to the story: The editor liked it, and me, and by the end of the year I was promoted to "Staff Writer."

Oh. Yeah.

[winston]

I wrote my thesis on Owen's freckles!

Seriously, come on. Come on.

[jollyness]

Hey winston. All your 3 posts have been pointless and a little rude. This is a chilled, sweet forum and we'd rather you saved yourself the effort.

[IamFrostey]

winston said:

I wrote my thesis on Owen's freckles!

Seriously, come on. Come on.

Obviously we have a jokester on the board now. I'm glad you could take time out of your busy schedule of bangin' chicks (or guys?) and bein' cool to mock us. Very kind of you.

[jules]

It's always nice to see old usernames creeping out of the woodwork.

Hi Winston, either the username has mystic properties or you've not changed a bit and where the hell have you been hiding all this time.

In a way I hope it's the later, but the former would explain a number of things about beaches and Liverpool musicans

Folks if it's the later have no fear of Winston, he just has a different perception of reality to you

If it's the former then maybe the gates of hell are about to open up and swallow this forum alive

[winston]

I'd rather not discuss who I "bang" (how eloquent!) with any of you because it makes vomit tickle the back of my throat.

I've never posted on this forum before. See below my name there? "Joined Apr 2007." So you must be thinking of someone else. Poor memory is a part of having a low IQ though, so I'm not surprised.

[jules]

winston said:

I'd rather not discuss who I "bang" (how eloquent!) with any of you because it makes vomit tickle the back of my throat.

I've never posted on this forum before. See below my name there? "Joined Apr 2007." So you must be thinking of someone else. Poor memory is a part of having a low IQ though, so I'm not surprised.

No Winston, I don't mean this forum and someone else left ages ago. Pay attention please and I'm sorry about your memory problems which is probably why you aren't surprised.

I also suggest your see a doctor about the vomit problem when you are involved in sexual activities, but then your don't want to discuss that and I doubt we do either.

Now that we've all become friends, what brought you to frequent this den of iniquity in the first place? Do you plan to pitch up for long or is this just a flying visit?

I wish I could spare more time to indulge in merry banter with you, but unfortunately I have more interesting things to do so I'll have to let you make hay on your own from now on.

"Amen Break" to you

[liederling]

hee.
(sorry--involuntary)



What i *meant* to say was, nice sketch, IanFrostey. I wonder if anyone fancies a manga rendition of the right honourable O. Pallett?

[luisairene]

I just wrote a term paper on Owen. Got 100 on it! (Though that may have been due, in part, to my teacher's excited realisation that he'd already heard Owen on the Vinyl Café.)

[suburbanmyth]

hmm... yes... awkwardness...
i feel somehow qualified to contribute to this thread =)

i'm still a bit squirmy that i posted my scribblishyness on the animal thread (& apparently despite a certain feline gracefulness, owen is NOT curious as a cat) & i do think a manga is a very awesome idea if... well... ya know, there's approval from above and all...

oh! & i recently wrote a poem based on the lyrics of 'what do you think will happen next'. well, actually, based solely on the lyrics "yes, i can!" because i'm terrible at deciphering & that's about the only part i've got so far. no one's actually heard this poem yet but as my friends frequently host a poetry night i'm sure to read it & be met with an awkwardly long & uncomfortable silence afterwards & maybe a "Huh?"

sufficiently awkward? yes? lovely!

[Ren]

More awkwardness: I draw a comic, which has (up until soon!) been posted exclusively on Facebook...(*shudder slightly*)

I'm an oboe major, so this comic mostly deals with trials and tribulations of being an oboe player--and also some of the crazy stuff that goes on in the studio.

In other news, I've been reading 'A Prayer for Owen Meany' recently.


Please? I do believe in fairies, I do! I do!