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Collected Works of Awesome

One of our awesome twitter friends posted a query

World renowned blogger Michael Monaghan who has his own blog http://www.mjmonaghan.com        @mjmonaghan_  tweeted the query: “You can write one letter before you die. Who would it be to?”

I, J. Timothy Quirk, on behalf of #ourawesomeclub-have decided to put in a formal response. This is my letter.  If you write your own letter, tweet Mr. Monaghan and let him know!

 

My letter:

Open letter to the invading Aliens who are conquering the planet,

                Well the timing of your invasion was not good for me personally, so I hope you’ll forgive me if I’m sort of miffed at the whole thing. You may not have been aware that I was supposed to go on a book tour in July and I was really looking forward to seeing Wilmington. The fact that you vaporized it demonstrates a cavalier attitude I don't appreciate, because even if we ever defeat you and regain our planet, I won't be able to take advantage of the tax-free shopping as I had intended. 

                Getting straight to the point, you should probably know we are all very disappointed in you.  In films we have always expected aliens to look like giant insects or scary monsters or on the opposite side of the spectrum, you could have looked eerily similar to human beings. You can imagine how underwhelmed I felt upon seeing aliens looking more like grey single celled protozoa.  I suppose at best you have slightly more charisma than my office’s accounts receivable department but the bar had been set pretty low before you got here.

                It was our fault entirely for summoning you to our planet by an improper use of the Large Hadron Collider.  Scientific inquiry often begins with someone saying "Hey what’s the worst that could happen?” but then again bad B movies from the eighties began that way too and of the two scenarios, it’s really Joel Schumacher I can’t forgive.  To the other members of the animal kingdom who were wiped out in mere seconds by some kind of particle beam from your ship, I suppose on behalf of humanity I would like to extend a heartfelt "our bad" and be done with that.

                As I see you’re slowly oozing your way across the keystone state and you will soon arrive at my home, I’d like to conclude by saying that it’s very bad form to leave Jim Thorpe, PA for last on your destruction list. I know what you’ll say, “we were leaving the best for last” but really that’s just talk because as you’re still calling us Mauch Chunk it’s clear you have no true understanding of our history.  I’ll have you know, the real person who was Jim Thorpe may not have played sports here or lived here, but the spirit of Jim Thorpe is alive and well here and if the future of humanity is at stake, it lies in the beating hearts of the hardscrabble folks who persevere despite adversity. It is why you will probably be ultimately defeated.

So what I’m saying is that we deserved to be attacked prior to, well c’mon, you chose to attack Reading before us- Really? That’s like a really bad tactical move and once again, we’re all very disappointed in your invasion.  You have left us this one shot at reclaiming our planet and I have the unwavering faith in the adaptability of humanity with the exception of those who still think our current American health insurance system is a good idea.

Sincerely

J. Timothy Quirk  

The compilation is BUILDING!

The compilation of the Collected Works of Awesome is being built as we speak! Thus far one piece of work (poem attached to art) is already in place. A second poem has been submitted and will be matched  with art to accompany it tonight. A third poem is being written for submission as we speak! Further a photographer will be submitting some work tomorrow. So the compilation is building!

I look forward to making this e-zine for 3/10/2012 a success. I hope you will participate in the creation of it and celebrate the work when it is complete-for it will celebrate YOU!

If you have a submission-email me at rascals@jurascals.com
or tweet me first at @jtimothyquirk or @AwesomeDayFan

Finally, a caveat to the submission process-don't send any political essays about a particular candidate for any upcoming election. I know this is an election year and primaries are going on for one of the parties in the US. There is a special place for political consideration and this isn't one of them. That doesn't mean ART can't be made that has political tones but I don't want this e-zine to be a non-paid political advertisement.

More updates as we go! This is exciting. I am also thinking we may want to have a different name than the "collected works of awesome" for this one-shot "e-zine". I'm open to suggestions from the Awesomeclub!

To Celebrate International Day of Awesome on 3/10/2012

Ok, first things first.  I didn't create "awesome day". I thought it would be a great idea to create an awesome day, I googled it and found that someone else had already done that task. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I have adopted the idea.
Second, there are a number of friends who also enjoy that idea of celebrating each other's "awesomeness" so with that in mind, I've created this blog for one purpose: to promote the awesomeness of others and to do so in a collected work which can be put up on a platform like "scribd.com" and could be downloaded for free.
From this group of unique artists/authors/poets/painters/photographers their work can be submitted and then put into a collection which can be shared in multiple formats. Here's some of the ground rules
1) submission does not equal inclusion. I have no idea how many folks will submit something and I can't promise that your something submitted will be included. But just because it doesnt get included, it doesnt mean it isn't "awesome" it just means it didn't fit in right then at that time. There may be some work which is super awesome but due to my limited time, I may not be able to get to it.
2) no money is intended to have anything to do with this project. Nothing is charged to submit your creative work here. Nothing will be paid if it is included in the collection. Nothing in this collection will be sold and no ad space will be sold in conjunction with your work. If you as the creator are able to promote your own work here-awesome. That's it.
3) gotta keep it rated "g" for all audiences. There's awesome artwork and awesome stories that have adult language and situations and there are other places where that work can shine. But this place is going to be for all audiences. If that upsets you creatively, I understand and still celebrate your awesomeness, I just can't celebrate it here.

I think that's it but I'll come up with other ideas and clarifications later.

I plan on "e=publishing" the collection on 3/10/2012