Weird Baltimoreans

Another proof that no idea is totally original. You just got to get it out there first—or do it in a unique way. I was reading in the Romantic Times Book Reviews about a heroine who can kill using her mind. Ugh! That's my main heroine's ability. Did I think I was being unique? No. It's been done before: X-Men, Scanners, Carrie. But gosh darn it, I never saw it in a Romance book. At least not to my knowledge. Though the story was different from mine, so I believe that mine's unique enough to stand on its own. It can be so disconcerting to see all those books out there and wonder how the hell I can break into the biz with so much competition. But people do it all the time. It just takes awhile. There's a market for everyting. And with talent and determination, anyone can make it.

So I keep telling myself.

Anyway, Sybir got me hooked on this cyber "me" site (www.meez.com). I spent about 30 minutes doing this less-than-productive thing this morning. Why am I avoiding work? I played all weekend, so now it's time to get down to business but I just can't concentrate. Anyway, here's cyberspace me:



Also, I read a great article about my fellow Baltimoreans in a magazine called The Urbanite. The author talked about the strange people living on her city bock. Particularly, one older woman who would throw water into open car windows as people sped down her street. Ahhh ... leave it to a Baltimoreans to wait on their stoop all day for just that chance to soak a speeder. In the last paragraph, the author quoted John Waters, who lives and has set most of his movies in Baltimore. Someone asked why he had never moved to LA or New York but stayed in Baltimore. He said,

"New Yorkers are weird, and they know it. Baltimoreans are weird, and they have no idea."

I love it! When I think back to all the colorful characters who used to grace the doorway of the East Baltimore Guide (my first job) all I can say is "so true, so true." Especially when I remember the man who announced with great sincerity to all of us working that he had an awesome idea to sell used matresses. I kid you not. He was serious and he wanted to begin adverstising his matresses that day in our newspaper.

Now to get some work done ...