online_journals raze first there was becky sue. a jawbreaker fan i never knew. then there was dana. she wrote about her grandfather and her dog and her dead sister-in-law making thanksgiving dinner drunk years before she was a bag of bones in a box. colleen pasted the face of a femme fatale over her own. she told me all her secrets while i ate frozen chicken stir-fry and listened to tim buckley's "sefronia" demos. they kicked the shit out of their properly produced counterparts. there was kevin, cousin of anna. he wrote a poem about someone he wanted or didn't want or hated because he couldn't have her. he called her the party crasher. veronica was as in love with emily as i was, at least for a little while. heather penned poetry that was so brave and beautiful it almost hurt to read. robert was all about marxist manifestos. erin gutted most of the good stuff when she was cleaning house, but she sent me some of what she torched in an email back when we were still friends. they're all gone now. every last one of them, and all the words they wove. 240504 ... epitome of incomprehensibility My first thought when I saw the title was literary magazines...but I remember when LiveJournal was thriving, although I only stepped into that site occasionally. 240505 ... raze you know, there was a livejournal group for blather once upon a time. i wonder if it still exists. i was a member for a while, but i don't think i ever said much there. i ended up deleting my lj when it got to feel too much like i was shouting into a tunnel with nothing coming back at me but the sound of my own voice. 240506 what's it to you? who go blather from