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Hermit
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  		   Posted 7/13/2007 1:54 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Seems to be a bit of ongoing confusion, so I thought I'd clear things up a bit . . .
I am David M Pitchford
I'm notorious for loosing passwords, websites, bookmarks, and user names as well as many other things. Which is why I had to begin anew here.
So, why Bitter Hermit? Seemed to make sense at the time.
I work too freaky much to have many friends outside my two homes - the Illinois State Museum and my house on Carman. Earlier this year, as many of you might have guessed or been told, my former business partner and I had a falling out. I absolutely do not miss my business partner - any more than he could possibly miss me. It was a rough business doing business together. However, I miss the heck out of the guys we were when the business was out of the way - one of the few guys left close by I could sit and discuss poetry and fiction with and find a common wavelength. So I was a little bitter at the time for losing my friend to a stupid commercial endeavor - but I deal with bitterness with humor (often gallows), and so the BH handle was a self-derrogation on the humorous side. I'm a hermit by habit of working constantly. I am not, as a rule, a bitter person.
 
hats I wear:
Museum Editor, Illinois State Museum
Publishing Editor, Prism Quarterly
Publishing Editor, Daybreak Press
Fiddling Nero, Pitch-Black LLC (quasi-defunct pending details)
Poet(s)
Novelist (unpublished)
Husband
Step-dad
Writing Coach
President (again), Poets & Writers Literary Forum of Springfield, Illinois
Poetry advocate and Generalist Poetry Expert
Humanist
Rationalist
Pluralist
Legion (think Bible and swine ;-) ; numerous personae individually named)
Scotch enthusiast
Absinthe occasioner
photographer
artist (painter & technology assisted design)
desktop publisher
Editor (broad-range, depending on need)
Poet
 
Web places in desperate need of updates: www.daybreakpoetry.com www.siodav.com
forthcoming: www.kumarivale.com (fiction presence, bloglike, for the purpose of supporting and informing my novel series)
did I mention - I am a poet (hugs and handshakes for the flashers out there, Jordan ;-) )

Exile of my own dull vice. . .

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  		   Posted 7/13/2007 2:04 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
thanks for revealing yourself.

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  		   Posted 7/13/2007 4:45 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Bitter Hermit said...
 
did I mention - I am a poet (hugs and handshakes for the flashers out there, Jordan :wink: )

LOL!  Thanks. Though I try to keep my flashing restricted to Saturday nights at the park. freaked

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Thought that might be the way the wind blew. Always nice to have you around, David.
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  		   Posted 7/13/2007 11:19 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hello again, David.

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  		   Posted 7/13/2007 11:41 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'm confused at what the confusion was. Hi Dave.

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  		   Posted 7/15/2007 9:34 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yeah, me also. Who didn't recognize the mark of your unmistakable finger in the pudding? lol

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Hermit
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Something you've likely noticed about me:

I rarely have any humble opinions to share. I don't do humble. It's not that I'm too good for it, it's just that I haven't the time nor impetus to share my humble opinions. I keep those to myself and traffic in serious, considered, spontaneous, exuberant, and just plain zany opinions. So don't ever expect to see IMHO in any post other than, of course, this one.

As for me personally, I really don't know if I have any humble in me. I don't consider myself arrogant for the most part. Nor humble. Sometimes coy, but never carp. Usually a smartass, but often serious and academic. Usually if I state something that sounds insulting, the most caustic barrel is aimed at my own temple (my apologies to those spattered in grey matter and bone chips).

I never lose my sense of humor. Though I am wont to leave it locked in the glovebox at random intervals and forget to put it on the charger.

Exile of my own dull vice. . .

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  		   Posted 7/21/2007 8:33 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Bitter Hermit said...

Something you've likely noticed about me:

I rarely have any humble opinions to share. I don't do humble.

Ha!  You crack me up!  Okay, I thought you were very nice and humble in all our post and PM exchanges.  But maybe what I thought was humble was just the fact that you are a very nice person with good manners.  Being a Southern Belle from the Deep South, I would notice good manners (grin).

At any rate, it is wonderful to know more about you.  For example, I didn't realize you are also a poet.  Excellent news!


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Hermit
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  		   Posted 7/21/2007 4:21 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yeah. I'm exccentric in many ways. One is that I always have preferred David to Dave - especially when there's another Dave around, and in this instance the one that runs this sector of the etherverse. So call Dave Dave and me David or Whatever or BH or Hermit or Marmot or Fringe Monkey . . . . smilewinkgrin please. I'm easy to confuse. I was actually Bobby for the first five years and seven months of my life. So DAVY nono really just irks the puddin out of me.
crystalwizard said...
I'm confused at what the confusion was. Hi Dave.


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  		   Posted 7/21/2007 4:43 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Bitter Hermit said...
So call me David or Whatever or BH or Hermit or Marmot or Fringe Monkey . . . . I'm easy to confuse.


so you want us to confuse you?
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Hermit
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  		   Posted 7/24/2007 10:22 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

How unsporting would that be?

Am I not confused enough already?

Exile of my own dull vice. . .

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Daniel
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  		   Posted 7/24/2007 2:24 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Seems to be a bit of ongoing confusion, so I thought I'd clear things up a bit . . .
I am David M Pitchford

***
 
No, I am David M. Pitchford.
 
Time to confess to everyone: I made up the whole "David Pitchford" thing with Pitch-Black!!!!  I just didn't want to seem like a loner. There never was a "David Pitchford" ha, ha. Fools!
 
Now, I think it is time for me to retire my stand-in, psuedo-someone and step out into the light.
 
YES, I am the madman who created this "trapezoidal marmot" by way of Chaos Magick and now have unleashed him on the unsuspecting world!!!!
 
Muhaha.....

"Art is the celebration of the ego's destruction."

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  		   Posted 7/24/2007 2:32 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

No wonder my head feels like it's splitting.

I told you I thought it would explode.

Exile of my own dull vice. . .

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  		   Posted 7/24/2007 2:38 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Dave,

It's weird: I can almost visualize our avatars having a busness meeting! LOL

Hope that made you laugh! If not, I am done making jokes at our expense.....

"Art is the celebration of the ego's destruction."

Daniel

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I figure the little monkey is staring into the EYE, thinking it's one really colorful mandala and wondering who packed his pipe and with what.

He's too docile for the business meeting thing. I still get reflux thinking about some of those. freaked

That's got a lot to do with why I'm checking around for an agent: I want to write, but I am seriously ready to get out of the business from the publisher's side.

Exile of my own dull vice. . .

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but I am seriously ready to get out of the business from the publisher's side.
 
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You should keep DayBreak. Publishing other people's poetry is more important than your health or happiness ;-)
 
 
rofl   devil turn rofl

"Art is the celebration of the ego's destruction."

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I'm checking around for an agent

***

Stick with the quest, Bitter Hermit. I think you have a very good chance of finding an agent and eventually publishers for your work.

From what I've seen you are doing everthing right, prep wise and practice wise and applying seat of pants to seat of the chair, etc. You have a great imagination, too.

Here's wishing you all luck and success!!!

"Art is the celebration of the ego's destruction."

Daniel

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Happiness, maybe. Not sure about health. This is sick day #3 for a freakin sinus headache . . . can't read for more than a minute at a time.

which is okay for poetry . . . But I have every attention of keeping PQ going until it drives me to living in a refrigerator box

Daniel said...
I'm checking around for an agent

***

Stick with the quest, Bitter Hermit. I think you have a very good chance of finding an agent and eventually publishers for your work.

From what I've seen you are doing everthing right, prep wise and practice wise and applying seat of pants to seat of the chair, etc. You have a great imagination, too.

Here's wishing you all luck and success!!!

Exile of my own dull vice. . .

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This is sick day #3 for a freakin sinus headache

***

Ugh. Been there, done that.

Hope you feel better soon!

"Art is the celebration of the ego's destruction."

Daniel

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I'm having an identity crisis. Please be aware that my avatar is likely to change hourly.

as is my show name (and please don't pronounce BH as Bi-aah-tch; I did this somehow last night inside my head and now it keeps playing like an unwanted Humperdink tune).

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too funny for (more) words (than this)

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How about this avatar? Much better than that old picture of me. Not that this one is the best of the new pictures of me . . . freaked

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Sometimes I think the gnome who coded my DNA put a tag on every strand saying "will not play well with other"

Either that or all Papa's swimmers hand on their "Opposition: a family value" jerseys.

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David BH Pitchford said...
Yeah. I'm exccentric in many ways. One is that I always have preferred David to Dave
Me too. Preferred David to Dave, I mean.

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