P. B. Friedman
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Touch magazine profile. My name is Paul Friedman and I write off. The wall poems, which people don't like and good ones that they do. I'm a sports freak.
The last sentence no longer holds true. My interests are dominated by feminism.
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You Say Orpah
Start typing should be the directive; or something. Anyway here I am at work as usual with no specific goal other than perhaps to crank out six hundred words of some type of garbage being as how I won't be paid to do it. As is becoming the norm my monthly check is in jeopardy. I sure am glad that it doesn't have anything with being half Jewish ancestrally in the Deep Southern United States. Maybe I'm lucky not to live in the Shallower South wherever that would be. Even better and more fortuitous I am nowhere near the Northeastern portion of the country, I tell myself. Actually I resent being here, always have, always will. Either that or not so much.
By P. B. Friedman4 years ago in Fiction
On Roller Skates
Maybe I should change something about how I humbly begin here by addressing myself by say a funky nickname like Han Solo. I do not expect this to do business ( the only idea I have currently is sports related ) . Unless somehow things take a turn towards entertainment no one will look at this non challenge contest potential submission.
By P. B. Friedman4 years ago in Psyche
Old School
Decades ago I came across In The Morning Of My Life, an account of the life, times etcetera of the recently deceased singer entertainer Tom Netherton. What brought this to mind was the part of this fairly thin celebrity autobiography that dealt with Mr. Netherton's time spent in the armed forces before making a career for himself as an entertainer. His description of what it was like to rise to the level of Drill Instructor interested me. Mostly what seemed to ring true was that at the end of the day as a DI he would collapse in exhaustion from expending so much energy outdoing his pupils in every way all day long. Somehow I find this relatable. Of course there was nothing that I recall about Mr. Lou Gossett's Officer And A Gentleman DI struggling in this way.
By P. B. Friedman4 years ago in FYI
Sex, Two Joe's And A Jim
I Used To Be Fast; interesting for a Vocal Confessional. This story mostly brought to mind my younger days and for whatever reason seemed readable. I have not lost a race I tried to win in some time. As I recall, it was New Jersey native Carl Lewis who stated once that the difference between himself and other track stars was not necessarily the speed at which they ran but the rate at which they gradually had to slow down towards the end of a race.
By P. B. Friedman4 years ago in Unbalanced
I Am The Anti Vocal
Note to self: ( with all the credit due Norman McDonald ) unless or/and until someone pulls a Benjamin Franklin this is about all there is insofar as their childhood goal of gaining notoriety, etcetera through storytelling. There is probably, like every other philosophy ever invented something to say for/about the Power Of Positive Thinking. While this may not of itself have gotten somebody admittance to the University of Southern Mississippi...maybe it just about did. While I would avoid publicizing beyond a certain point the school's decades old claim of being among some top twenty or other in English Departments at least there was no poor mouthing going on.
By P. B. Friedman4 years ago in Confessions
I Never Met A Becky-Liz I Didn't Like
I wonder if it is typical of the elderly to consider things to be not any longer worth the effort or do most if not all of us feel thankful for the relative lack of pressure to perform and prove ourselves. I would guess the latter may be the case for some but cannot say that this represents my personal outlook, somehow.
By P. B. Friedman4 years ago in Confessions
Kathy Griffin
I finally came across a couple of news items I can justify typing about; somewhat. Neither of them interest me a whole lot. Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand appears to be the less newsworthy of the two; she is a transgender power lifter, if I understand correctly. I don't think you'd mistake her for being exceptionally photogenic; moreover she is not doing a great deal as an Olympian. Maybe were she non binary things would be slightly different. Still, give credit where it is due; she is perhaps breaking ground. A prevailing opinion seems to be that in non contact sports this type of athlete cannot risk injuring anyone but herself and ought to be allowed to compete.
By P. B. Friedman4 years ago in Pride
