Tuesday, February 28, 2006

   IGNORE PLEASE!!!!
I AM JUST POSTING THIS SO I CAN DO MY BIOGRAPHY SO UNLESS YOU WANNA LEARN ABOUT EDGAR ALLEN POE-IGNORE!!!!

Poet and writer, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was abandoned by his father when a baby and his mother died before he was three, so he was taken as a foster child into the home of John Allan, a Richmond, VA tobacco merchant whose business took him to Britain, where Poe was educated (1815–20). Returning to Virginia, he continued his education (1823–5) and attended the University of Virginia (1826). Having quarrelled with his foster father (although he chose ‘Allan’ as his middle name) over his gambling debts and refusal to study law, he then went to Boston where, anonymously and at his own expense, he published Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827). He served in the US Army under a false name (Edgar A Perry) and incorrect age (1827–9), then attended West Point (1830–1), but got himself dismissed when he realized he would never be reconciled with his foster father. He then went to Baltimore to live with his aunt, Mrs Maria Clemm; he would marry her daughter and his own cousin, 13-year-old Virginia Clemm, in 1836. His third volume of poetry (1831) brought neither fame nor profit, but a prize-winning short story, ‘A MS Found in a Bottle’ (1833), gained him the editorship of the Southern Literary Messenger (1835–6).
During the next several years he was a journalist and editor for a variety of periodicals in New York City, Philadelphia, and then back in New York City, where he settled (1844) and continued working as an editor while nursing schemes of starting his own magazine.

At the same time he was gaining some reputation for his short stories, poems, reviews, and essays, and such stories as ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ (1839), ‘Murders in the Rue Morgue’ (1841), and ‘The Goldbug’ (1843), would later be regarded as classics of their genre. He gained some fame from the publication (1845) of a dozen stories as well as of The Raven and Other Poems (1845), and he enjoyed a few months of calm as a respected critic and writer.

After his wife died (1847), however, his life began to unravel even faster as he moved about from city to city, lecturing and writing, drinking heavily, and courting several older women. Just before marrying one, he died in Baltimore after being found semi-conscious in a tavern, possibly from too much alcohol, though it is a myth that he was a habitual drunkard and drug addict. Admittedly a failure in most areas of his personal life, he was recognized as an unusually gifted writer and was admired by Dostoevsky and Baudelaire, even if not always appreciated by many of his other contemporaries. A master of symbolism and the macabre, he is considered to be the father of the detective story and a stepfather of science fiction, and he remains one of the most timeless and extraordinary of all American creative artists.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809–49, American poet, short-story writer, and critic, b. Boston. He is acknowledged today as one of the most brilliant and original writers in American literature. His skillfully wrought tales and poems convey with passionate intensity the mysterious, dreamlike, and often macabre forces that pervaded his sensibility. He is also considered the father of the modern detective story.

Later Life and Mature Works

In 1836 Poe married Virginia Clemm, then only 13, and in 1837 they went to New York City, where he published The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838). From 1838 to 1844, Poe lived in Philadelphia, where he edited Burton's Gentleman's Magazine (1839–40) and Graham's Magazine (1841–42). His criticism, which appeared in these magazines and in the Messenger, was direct and incisive and made him a respected and feared critic. Some of his magazine stories were collected as Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840). At that time he also began writing mystery stories. In 1844, Poe moved back to New York, where he worked on the Evening Mirror and later edited and owned the Broadway Journal.

The Raven and Other Poems (1845) won him fame as a poet both at home and abroad. In 1846 he moved to the Fordham cottage (now a museum) and there wrote “The Literati of New York City” for Godey's Lady's Book. His wife died in 1847, and by the following year Poe was courting the poet Sarah Helen Whitman. However, in 1849 he returned to Richmond and became engaged to Elmira Royster, a childhood sweetheart who was by then the widowed Mrs. Shelton. On his way north to bring Mrs. Clemm to the wedding, he became involved in a drinking debauch in Baltimore. This indulgence proved fatal, for he died a few days later.

Early Life and Works

After the death of his parents, both of whom were actors, by the time he was three years old, Poe was taken into the home of his godfather, John Allan, a wealthy Richmond merchant. The Allans took him to Europe, where he began his education in schools in England and Scotland. Returning to the United States in 1820, he continued his schooling in Richmond and in 1826 entered the Univ. of Virginia. He showed remarkable scholastic ability in classical and romance languages but was forced to leave the university after only eight months because of quarrels with Allan over his gambling debts. Poverty soon forced him to enlist in the army.

Because of the deathbed plea of his foster mother, he achieved an unenthusiastic reconciliation with Allan, which resulted in an honorable discharge from the army and an appointment to West Point in 1830. However, when Allan remarried the following year Poe lost all hope of further assistance from him and was expelled from the Academy for infraction of numerous minor rules. His first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, was published in 1827. It was followed by two more volumes of verse in 1829 and 1831. None of these early collections attracted critical or popular recognition. Poe went to Baltimore to live with his aunt, Mrs. Maria Clemm, and her daughter Virginia. In 1835, J. P. Kennedy helped him become an editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond. He contributed stories, poems, and astute literary criticism, but his drinking lost him the editorship.


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Sunday, February 26, 2006

   heylio guys!
well im totally pissed at myself because i missed FMA tonight...so i guess i hafta watch the 3:00 episode
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

   Casts Off!
well, tristan finally got his casts off his arms, so now everyone is back to beating him up again. i just hafta call stacie to see about hers. she broke her arm about a month ago and we were gonna see if she could come over for the long weekend, but she had other plans. that's about it, so i guess ill try and post tomorrow...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

hey guys! time for the update!
well, as some of you may know, one of my friends has broken both of his arms. but he's getting the casts taken off sometime this weekend or something. i got straight a's on myb report card and i got principal's list for the semester. i got an a on my science project and i got two plaques; one for language arts and one for science. my language arts teacher is going to try to get me into a gifted language arts class next year because ive had the highest sacedemic grade this whole year. it was up to 102 the last nine weeks and 98 this 9 weeks. i was so preoud of myself i felt so smart. as soon as my art teacher called me to the front of the gym, all my friends and my whole class went crazy. i thought it was pretty funny cause nobody else got that much cheering for them. well, my birthday was a few weeks back and the day of my party most of my invitees came (with the exception of daniel, christian, alicia, and nikki) and we had a sing a long with green day and the all american rejects. shannon forgot my fall out boy CD so we just had to make do.
i was one of the first to fall asleep, but jonnie woke me up cause he kicked me in the head. so i got up and frankie had stolen my pillow so i stole it back and went to lay on the couch. but not before noticing that eric fell asleep behind the couch with no pillor or blanket. then he started talking in his sleep and it was funny! i cant remember what he said but it was so hillarious! then karen woke up and jonnie tried to put a voodoo curse or something on us while he was sleeping, and that was pretty funny too. we woke up and mostly everybody left, save chenel and dusty and mojo and eric and mariah and brittany, but most of them practically live here, and we went to the park with my doggies, harley and haru. well, i usually let the dogs roam free at the park because they're good dogs and they scome back when i tel them. so i did just that and i got on my swing. about five minutes later, my BIG dog, harley, who happens to be half chow and half lab, gets right in the way of the swing. i end up hitting her and shouting at her to move, but she doesnt. so i come back down and bam! i fly about three feet backwords off of the swing. mariah was on teh swing next to me and eric was doing some strange thing to the pole next to me and...yea...i had a headache after that. i havent brought them back OR let them off of their leashes since.and that was january 15th. and now it's february 12th. so yea...and two of my friends(nikki and alicia) keep forgetting to bring my gifts.
alicia says her gift is too big to fit into her backpack, so she's going to bring it over here. yea...havent seen it. nikki says she got me a can of peas for my birthday, but dont believe her. (she's lying) ok, i think thats pretty much it for the month...and im trying to add some more fanart pictures so be sure to check it! and comment! i love the comments!

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Mall Fun!
guess who i saw at the mall yesterday?!?! i saw superman, spiderman, batman, and space ghost! no lie! im serious! you can ask eric, chanel, and brittany cause they were with me! we followed them around and eric yelled "Look! It's the Bat Signal!" and it was funny! and mariah pitched in her money so we could buy eric a shirt, and guess what it says. manho. and he wore it today. in school. above his hoodie. and didnt get in trouble. it was funny funny funny! and bad news. kamen said that him and one of his friends were going to try to sing the national anthem of friday. and mess it all up. im doomed if mrs. williams say they can. cause he's the only kid in the school named Kamen Andrews. probably the only one named Kamen at that. im doomed i tell ya, DOOMED!

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Sunday, February 12, 2006

   hey guys! time for the update!
well, as some of you may know, one of my friends has broken both of his arms. but he's getting the casts taken off sometime this weekend or something. i got straight a's on myb report card and i got principal's list for the semester. i got an a on my science project and i got two plaques; one for language arts and one for science. my language arts teacher is going to try to get me into a gifted language arts class next year because ive had the highest sacedemic grade this whole year. it was up to 102 the last nine weeks and 98 this 9 weeks. i was so preoud of myself i felt so smart. as soon as my art teacher called me to the front of the gym, all my friends and my whole class went crazy. i thought it was pretty funny cause nobody else got that much cheering for them. well, my birthday was a few weeks back and the day of my party most of my invitees came (with the exception of daniel, christian, alicia, and nikki) and we had a sing a long with green day and the all american rejects. shannon forgot my fall out boy CD so we just had to make do.
i was one of the first to fall asleep, but jonnie woke me up cause he kicked me in the head. so i got up and frankie had stolen my pillow so i stole it back and went to lay on the couch. but not before noticing that eric fell asleep behind the couch with no pillor or blanket. then he started talking in his sleep and it was funny! i cant remember what he said but it was so hillarious! then karen woke up and jonnie tried to put a voodoo curse or something on us while he was sleeping, and that was pretty funny too. we woke up and mostly everybody left, save chenel and dusty and mojo and eric and mariah and brittany, but most of them practically live here, and we went to the park with my doggies, harley and haru. well, i usually let the dogs roam free at the park because they're good dogs and they scome back when i tel them. so i did just that and i got on my swing. about five minutes later, my BIG dog, harley, who happens to be half chow and half lab, gets right in the way of the swing. i end up hitting her and shouting at her to move, but she doesnt. so i come back down and bam! i fly about three feet backwords off of the swing. mariah was on teh swing next to me and eric was doing some strange thing to the pole next to me and...yea...i had a headache after that. i havent brought them back OR let them off of their leashes since.and that was january 15th. and now it's february 12th. so yea...and two of my friends(nikki and alicia) keep forgetting to bring my gifts.
alicia says her gift is too big to fit into her backpack, so she's going to bring it over here. yea...havent seen it. nikki says she got me a can of peas for my birthday, but dont believe her. (she's lying) ok, i think thats pretty much it for the month...and im trying to add some more fanart pictures so be sure to check it! and comment! i love the comments!


music video for the day! everytime i put up a post imma try to put up a music video of my favorite anime or a band. so if you have any requests, ill be more than happy to put it up!
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Friday, February 10, 2006

Fanarts
hey guys, it's been a while. well, as usual im late for the bus so im just up here to say that ill post up the happenings later tonight or early tomorrow morning, k? i just added a few fanarts yesterday so you guys might wanna check it out
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Friday, February 3, 2006

   For some strange reason...
i have submitted to one of my friends into going to the school dance cause she wants me to do the dance dance dance (dance dance by fall out boy) with her. god, she doesnt even kno that they will play it or not. eh, my mom is giving me a ride today cause i got written up on the bus yesterday for punch-buggying one of my friends, along with 6 other people and all that happy shit. i didnt get suspened but if i do it again ill get iss(in school suspention) for at LEAST 3 or 4 days. come on ppl! she didnt even kno what the hell a punch buggy was! it's a PUCH BUGGY!!!!!
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

im gettin kicked off
but i just wanted to tell you guys that im REALLY sorry i havent posted since like, last week or something. my dad has been on the computer doing some kind of paper for college. it's gotta be 4 pages long and as soon as he gets off, my little brother gets on. damn, i want a laptop
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Saturday, January 28, 2006

ow...
guess what happened tuesday...i was skitching and my dog was pulling me and the board started going side to side. so i jumped off and tipped, then was dragged a few feet until i let go of the leash. eric ran up to get harley while mariah helped me up. i couldnt feel my lips, my arm, or my legs, so eric had to carry me home. i was a bloody mess. the sad thing is, im probably gonna do it again...just not on a pink skateboard....

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