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Hi there! My website has moved off of AOL. I finally got tired of them like I'm told a lot of people have. Anyway, I'm very happy using Netlink as my local DSL carrier. You probably will, too. Anyway, most of the links on this page are going to be offline for a few days/weeks/months/years/decades/eons depending on how long it takes me to rededicate myself to web publishing. To the one or two of you out there who religiously check on my website, I'm glad you found my new home. Please be patient while I redecorate...
I'm so vain... I probably think this website is about me...
Hi! Good evening and welcome to my little corner of the world devoted to... me.
How's that for self-centered? Well, Descartes did say that I know myself first
and best, so I guess that does make 'me' the one true thing in the cosmos. At
any rate, I'm going to assume for a while that you exist, too.
That way, it won't seem like I'm talking to myself. So what's new on these
pages? We'll I've updated my bibiliography to include
my numerous publications (thank you, thank you, you like me... you really like
me!) And I've included several links to good sites. The Plato's Children
website is dead (I killed it! Tee hee hee!) and has been replaced by the
existential hell I call 'nothing'. Hope you enjoy.
And, at the request of my friends (i have two of them, both are pickled in large mason jars in my basement) I am including a more detailed biography of myself, to help you better come to know your gracious host. Bon apetite.
Name: Ron Fields (version 2.0)
Location:
Marital Status: Quite married
Email: RonaldFields@netlink.net or rfields@siu.edu
Hobbies: Woodworking, writing, building websites, reading, creating problems, solving problems.
Favorite Books/ Authors: James Jeffords My Declaration of Independence; Kinky Friedman mystery novels (finished Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover, Blast From the Past, Roadkill, Spanking Watson, Armadillos and Old Lace); Midnight Hour by Mary Saums; S'Postu by Lee Foster; Willis Barnstone's poetry collection Algebra of Night; Ernest Hemingway; the Great Southern Writers (William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty); Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, Summer 1956; Elie Wiesel's Night; Stephen King's On Writing; Lyn Lifshin's poetry collection Cold Comfort; John Barth's The Floating Opera; Gaylord Brewer's poetry including Devilfish and Presently a Beast. I also enjoy Cook's collection In the Small of My Backyard and the poetry of Clayton Eshleman. Stephen Dobyn's The Church of Dead Girls was VERY good, but his poetry collection Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides was a little lacking. Dobyn's poems in Velocities, particularly his "My Favorite Iraqi Soldier", were astounding. I have recently discovered Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-- one of the pillars of science fiction and comedy. Of course, I am a Hemingway affiocionado and also enjoy the poems of T.S. Eliot (The Wasteland and Prufrock, mostly).
I am currently reading: Miscellaneous collected works of Samuel Beckett.
The Last Book I finished: Waiting for Godot, Happy Days, & How It Is by Samuel Beckett (3 works)
Favorite philosophers: Karl Marx, Marcuse, Sartre, Descartes, Cornel West, Walter Benjamin.
Favorite films: Resovoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, A.I., American Beauty, Bringing Out the Dead, Interview with the Vampire, Gun Shy, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, As Good As It Gets, O Brother Where Art Thou, Death to Smoochy, Scary Movie 3 & 4, Walk the Line, Capote
Favorite musical artists: Barenaked Ladies, R.E.M., Elton John, Billy Joel, Three Dog Night, Smashing Pumpkins, Mozart, Bach, John Lee Hooker, Soggy Bottom Boys, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Josh Turner, Garth Brooks, others.
Favorite radio station: Still trying to get used to radio stations
here in
Favorite radio program: The Bob
and Tom Show, Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie
Home Companion", The Writer's Almanac, The Maxwell Show (out of
Publications: various poems, stories and nonfiction published online and in magazines. Pull up a stool in the Green Room for more on that.
Interests: philosophy, writing, technical work
Occupations: unpaid writer, Graduate assistant in the
English Department at Southern Illinois University in
Opinion of this moment: If you don't vote, don't complain. But remember: it's always been up to democrats throughout history to undo the damage wrought by Republican regimes. The Democrats stand for social equality and taking care of those who cannot take care of themselves. For the most part, Republicans believe in might makes right, and survival of the fittest. This is a battle which will rage throughout history, so choose your sides now and choose wisely.
Get registered to vote, exercise your right to vote, and help change the things you don't like. Yes, it is that simple.
Yes, I'm so tragically bored that I'd like to hear from you.
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Other Links You Really Need to See
* * * * A must See!! Learn all about the Gutenberg project! Virtually every piece of literature in history that is now in the public domain can be found on the web at WWW.GUTENBERG.NET. Go and find their lists of available texts, by title or by author. A treasure trove of literature for the reader, and a must for research projects.
* * * * Hit the high road to Reisomland for cool poetry and stuff. Reisomland is the best thing since sliced bread.
* * * * * Visit Collage, MTSU's creative arts journal. Click here for the primary, yet outdated Collage page, or click here to read the Spring '99 edition online.
* * * * * * Check out the Frugal
Frigate website. The Frugal Frigate is a quaint little children's and
women's bookstore in
forms so you can order books and poetry chapbooks online. It's got a
nice, Victorian feeling to it .
***** What’s for lunch? How ‘bout a THUNDERSANDWICH? This e-zine kicks ass fairly well, with spotlights for poetry, art, and prose. Careful when submitting though… Mr. Chandler hates bad rhyme.
***** Asterius Press. John C. Erianne has created a micro-universe dedicated to the electro-poetic word. Visit his publications "Gnome", "Devil Blossoms", "The 13th Warrior Review", and "The Doomed City" at Asterius Press
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