Sunday, September 25, 2005

A good man is hard to find I'm recycling the title of a Flannery O'Conner short story for a weblog post. I think this may be illegal in some states. I can always claim I'm a yankee and don't know any better. Thats yankee as a mason-dixon boundary issue. Nothing to do with those pin-striped yahoo's from Queens. I'm from the Bay State. Having somewhat recently (and only recently) flipped the switch on this buggy that gives me email notification when someone posts a comment on Atomized Jr. here. I did see that someone put up a comment on a post from 13 December 2003. It was from a Steve Myers who wrote to say that he had been Mark Edmunds best friend in High School back in North Canton Ohio. I had been writing a set of stories about Mark, who I knew in the Navy right after Steve knew him. I have a few more stories involving Mark and those times roughly sketched out, which I will have to finish and share. Mark was one of a kind, I can not only say something like "I've never known anyone like him since." I can add to that - I never at any point expected to. And I've known Lithuanians, and Peru-French-Canadians. Any thought that this Steve Myers might be jerking my chain on knowing Mark are dispelled by lines like "spent many late nights in drunken philosophical discussion about what is important. Bastard would pass out and snore like the sailor he was to become." Hey he does know Edmunds I thought. I haven't heard from Mark in twenty years, but it would be about time. 11:35:25 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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