I Love Writing. I Love DU. Mineralman

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Star Member MineralMan (72,950 posts)

I Love Writing. I Love DU.


Mostly, I love writing I don't get paid for. Even though I've made my living since the late 1970s as a writer, most of what I write is not on subjects that fascinate me. For example, I just finished writing all of the content for a new website for a client who owns a carpet cleaning company. Now, I suppose the carpet cleaning business is interesting enough to carpet cleaners, but writing thousands of words and twenty individual pages on that subject is, well, not all that exciting. It's interesting enough, I suppose, and complicated enough, what with trying to incorporate great SEO and successfully marketing a pretty mundane service, but it's not exciting.

I'm excited that I'm helping a guy build his business, of course, and excited that some bills will get paid, but really...

Still, I live to write. If I'm not writing for money, I'm writing about things that do excite me, like politics. If I'm awake, I'm either writing something or planning to write something. It's just what I do. DU lets me write as much as I want, when I want, and about a subject I'm passionate about. That makes me very happy.

Thanks, DU!

Wait. Hold the phone, You're helping a guy build a business without government help? You didnt build that DUmmie. 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026805303

[Big Dog]

MineralOilMan = suckass.

[thundley4]

Now, I suppose the carpet cleaning business is interesting enough to carpet cleaners, but writing thousands of words and twenty individual pages on that subject is, well, not all that exciting.

Twenty pages for a carpet cleaning service, and 1000's of words? I doubt if most national chains have that much BS on them. Did this DUmmie charge his client by the page and word?

[Big Dog]

Twenty pages for a carpet cleaning service, and 1000's of words? I doubt if most national chains have that much BS on them. Did this DUmmie charge his client by the page and word?

If you can't convince people to get their carpets cleaned in 100 words or less, you must be a DUmmy.

[GOBUCKS]

writing I don't get paid for.

Nutcase nadin and the drunken Pitt write the same way.

[BannedFromDU]

Nutcase nadin and the drunken Pitt write the same way.

He likes fiction writing the best. Remember this?

MineralMan (72,950 posts)

The Unreasonable Fears of White People

I'm not exactly sure where the fear started for middle class white people. Fear of almost everything. Locked doors, no kids playing outdoors in neighborhoods. Fear of strangers, fear of some unnamed calamity. Fear of anyone who doesn't look exactly like they do. It's worst in the suburbs, in my experience. Front doors that are never used, with people driving into their attached garage and entering the house only after the garage door is down. It's sad and unhealthy for society. Here's an example from a couple of days ago:

I live in the northeastern corner of St. Paul, MN, a city of about 300,000. As it happens, the nearest supermarket is in a close-in suburb, along with most other shopping. So I go there. I went to do my weekly shopping the other day and worked my way through the store, filling my shopping cart. I had more stuff than was comfortable for the self check-out, so I decided to go through a regular check-out lane. Typical for this store, there were too few checkers for the number of shoppers, which is why I normally use the self-check. Anyhow, I looked down the line of check-out lanes. All of the open lanes had lines. Ugh. But wait...there's a lane with nobody in line.

I headed for it. There was one shopper ahead of me, while all the other lanes had four or more carts lined up. Why was this one so short? The reason was obvious: The checker was a young black woman, in her late 20s or early 30s. Did I mention that this was a suburban supermarket? People had apparently decided that they preferred being in a line of four carts than to go through a checkout lane with a black woman as the checker. Really?

Were they afraid of this young woman for some reason? I can't imagine why that might be. She was young, efficient, and pleasant. Why would people do that? I got my groceries checked out, said, "Thank you," and started bagging my stuff. There was nobody in her line, even though the other open lanes were still backed up with multiple shopping carts. I had finished bagging my groceries before anyone entered that check-out lane. Nobody. The light was on, indicating that the lane was open, there was no line at all, and yet nobody chose that lane. The reason was painfully obvious.

Welcome to suburban America. This is the problem. People are afraid of a checker because she is black. What a world we live in! It makes me very sad.

[GOBUCKS]

Welcome to suburban America. This is the problem. People are afraid of a checker because she is black. What a world we live in! It makes me very sad.

Well of course it's a bouncy tale.

An obvious lie.

There are only about five hundred black people in Minnesota and they're all either in prison or on professional sports teams.

[BannedFromDU]

There are only about five hundred black people in Minnesota and they're all either in prison or on professional sports teams.

     Half the year in one, the other half on one.

[Ralph Wiggum]

MineralOilMan = suckass.

Yup.

[Carl]

Cool story bro.

[Boudicca]

Why is it that these dumbasses, when constructing their bouncies, never fail to mention that they're frequently one of "those" type stores.  A GOOD prog would bicycle to the nearest store that sells organic, vegan products (what the rest of us normal folks refer to as shit), and make as many trips as they must in order to ensure their carbon footprint is as airy fairy as the space between their ears (where us normal folks have our brains).  MineralMan is a wannabe hack.  AND he sold out to DA MAN by prostituting his writing talent for cold hard cash. 

[Mr Mannn]

excuse me, but that's, Da Mannn! Thank you.