cool quote

I think... no, I am positive... that you are the most unattractive man I have ever met in my entire life. You know, in the short time we've been together, you have demonstrated EVERY loathsome characteristic of the male personality and even discovered a few new ones. You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you're morally reprehensible, vulgar, insensitive, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humor and you smell. You're not even interesting enough to make me sick.

Alexandra Medford (Cher) in the "Witches of Eastwick" to the character of the Devil played by Jack Nicholson.

my head hurts... i had an idea

for monday (which would be tomorrow)-- check my story blog, read the post on nottingham. then-- tell me what you think of the idea. after that i want to know what you folks think of what i am dubbing (unofficially because ya'll might think of a better way to say it) "counter-tales" of which, my idea for nottingham is one.
counter tales are tales, which attempt to set the story straight. this means that they give it immediate amerika's "gritty realism" polish, or they try to correct it-- as to how they feel it should have been told or "really was," or they attempt to tell it from a counter perspective, by that i mean that they try to spin it around and tell it from the antagonist's perspective (whoever is usually seen as a bad guy, or one that is not given a lot of importance) in this vein think of morgain from mists of avalon, or my own idea for nottingham.
almost all of these counter-tales are contemporary renditions (not settings) with the exception of the victorian's-- they did the first disney-style intentional editing.
what do you think of them? why do we do them? what is gained/lost? should they be "fixed" and if so/not-- why? why are we so obsessed with the old stories and why are we (by we i mean the modern world/amerika) are so obsessed with "setting the story straight." think on it-- king arthur, tristan and isolde, beowulf and grendal, robin hood men in tights, costner-hood, ever after, etc.

tell me. i want to know and am very very curious. and i think it is a solid point and serious matter for the illiteratti and something we must discuss.

see ya'll later!

sorry-- i've been lazy

ok here's a post for anyone who wishes to catch it.

challenge for monday: write something anything. note i do not want anything with the words "something anything" on them. bring it. make us read and talk about it.

and-- what do you feel about fantasy/sci-fi/fiction that tries to "set the story straight" either by telling it "gritty" style, or from a new person's perspective, most likely the common antagonist, and such, like the mists of avalon telling it from morgain's perspective... what are your opinions on this. i am curious.

and... aspen-- write twelveborn.