Thursday, December 04, 2003

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And so dear readers, with no pictures in evidence, we digress from the usual notes to the Concordance.  It hase been requested that the editorial staff begin the task of composing the Life of Quin  section which will fall within the Brief Biography, or perhaps Preface, or Introduction to the concordance.  We will attempt to begin this work with timeline of sorts, noting that this will require further filling in as we go along. Let us begin.  The Life of Quin  timeline May 22, 19--,  Quin is born in Houston, Texas at the Baptist Hospital. 19--, Quin is taught to read by his father John Frederick Withey in Austin, TX at the age of four using The Illiad as his text. [really, sic]. Around this time or thereabouts, Quin watches  the Palladin series avidly on television. 19--,  Quin enters the first grade at the age of five, at the notorious Anna Raguet Elementary School in Nacogdoches, TX.  It is here that he refuses to read the text, The Nutty Squirrel. 19--, Quin takes first IQ test at age 7 years.  Score is recorded as 168. Also around this time, Quin and a younger sibling stand on one leg waiting for the indian on the television set to clear before cartoons come on on Saturday Mornings.  The Withey family attends Christ Church Episcopal Church in Nacogdoches, TX.  At one Christmas Carolling event, the Rector of the Church plays accordian. 19--, Quin has his first poptart.  It is red on the inside. Around these years, John Frederick Withey tells Quin that their house [one of four houses in which the family lived in a six year period in Nacogdoches, TX] may be bombed due to his [JFW] involvement in the civil rights movement in that town. 19--Quin's parents divorce.  Custody is awarded to Quin's mother. 19--John Frederick Withey remarries in Austin, Texas. 19-- to 19--Quin spends much time at the home of his maternal grandmother, in Pearland, TX.  Here he frequently mows her lawn, talks, drinks cokes, and watches The Edge of Night.  Quin's maternal grandmother was once heard to say of her tomato plants, "I let them grow up wild and tall like that.  I don't trim them back like some people do."  Quin is greatly influenced by his maternal grandmother and his mother during this period. 19--Quin enters Ryan Junior High School in Houston, Texas where he is one of 14 white students in a population 1800.  The remainder of the students are African-American.  Per Quin, he chose to attend Ryan rather than a white high school he felt to be preppy [or whatever the term at the time would have been.] 19--Quin, his mother and his three younger siblings move into the Episcopalian Community founded by Episcopal Priest Graham Pulkingham who had received the gift of the Holy Spirit  and speaking in toungues by David Wilkerson of The Cross and the Switchblade fame. Pulkingham had been pastor of The Church of the Redeemer, an inner city church in Houston, TX.  Here, Quin hears much glossilalia, though he says that he never spoke in toungues himself.  He has also stated that he doesn't remember that any of the children in Community ever spoke in tounges. However, Quin's future music is greatly influenced by the hearing of glossilalia, as well as by the artistry and choral work of Betty Jane Pulkingham. The timeline of  the  Life of Quin   will continue. 12:30:28 PM    comment []

At any moment the picture aforementioned may magically appear.  We cannot write overmuch while it is voodooing itself into the blog because then our netscape viewers will be faced with images and text everywhere and all over the place.  We appreciate your your patience. However, 30 minutes later, we no longer have any patience left, and so with fear and trembling post this entry, not knowing when or if an image may appear.  As of this writing, we have gone through the process by which pictures are uploaded to this site at least three times, and so we may find that we have three images popping up like crocuses through the snow.  Nevertheless, we are bored with waiting and are bravely pushing the "post to weblog" button.  Oh for world enough and time to do nothing but wait upon Quin's weblog.  11:43:20 AM    comment []

ANNOUNCEMENTS: The editor notes that there ARE NO COMMENTS [flame mildly sic], and observes that perhaps the blog format is indeed one fraught with despair as Quin has often asserted--or as others have emphatically declared is perhaps indeed a mere mastabtory effort.  We take comfort in the fact that the use of the word 'mastabortory' or masterbate will at least get us some interesting referrers by those doing a porn search in google.  Alas, we are reduced to this.  Perhaps our loyal readership is falling away during the Quin hiatus.  We encourage Quin, wherever in the ether he may be, to continue to come forward and blog for the sake of his public, and for the sake of the editor and the editorial staff who, in the maelstrom of ensuing depression brought on by blogging ceaslessly into the ether, are wreathed in cigarette smoke and submerged in caffiene while attempting to carry on in his absence.  Regarding the CD:  For those eagerly awaiting a John Donne CD, or for those who would expect to receive one based on previous experience of receiving things from Quin--ie, primarly three men in Texas whose initials are J, J, and D, [D is not actually currently in Texas but hails from that state] and C in Minnesota, we note that we are having technical difficulties (what else is new) with our equipment, which may necessitate that the editorial staff contact with tech support [arrgh, sic].  We will get these to you complete with it's beautiful and informative booklet containing many portraits of Quin, one in the near buff as soon as possible and hopefully in time for your festive holiday parties. [We know that some of these initials mentioned are not yet aware of the existence of this CD.  It would have been, then, by way of a surprise--possibly in conjunction with the ensuing holiday season.  For any who like surprises, we apologize for letting this cat out of the bag]. Regarding the painting on ebay:  At long last, Quin's promise of many moons ago will be fulfilled.  The Iconic Portrait of Leo Castelli will appear on ebay, we imagine, this month. We will keep our readership posted so that you can bid. Finally, we wish to apologize.  Yesterday's entry was one of our favorites, and we pushed some rogue button and lost it.  It is no more.  While we cannot attempt to recover that entry, we will continue with as much verve as is possible.  First, however, we will post this announcements section, and perhaps a painting. 10:58:07 AM    comment []