Dean Young
Dean Young
bless cast characters created dominant genius god job left monkey wonderful work
God bless my daddy, ... He was the genius who created this wonderful menagerie of characters. A monkey could do my job with the characters I have to work with. He left me this cast of characters and this dominant gene.
dad diet earth grew hollywood humor steady surreal tv
You see, my dad grew up on Hollywood two-reelers and screwball comedies, ... His humor was very surreal and fanciful at times. I grew up on a steady diet of TV sitcoms, so my humor is more-to-earth.
characters comic strip
There's going to be this juxtaposition of the comic strip characters you're never going to see again,
oddities lobster looks
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.
block believe writing
I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.
sea enough slaughterhouses
Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.
fall errors dumbasses
Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.
moving life-is-hard darkness
You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.
dream sleep writing
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.
sleep want pages
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.
want happy-endings cookbook
You want happy endings, read cookbooks.
bird cages
Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.
heart way pebbles
Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.
dad funny kitchen took wealthy
Wealthy playboys and flappers just weren't funny anymore, ... So (dad) got them married, and (Dagwood) was disowned by his millionaire daddy. When they got into the kitchen and started having kids, it took off like a rocket.