Looky here!

I guess now is as good a time as any to officially introduce Big Raoul's Writing Archive. Basically, it's me being an exhibitionist and posting some of the writings and other literary foibles I've been guilty of creating over the last few years. At lot of this stuff I wouldn't show anyone for a long time, but now I figure, "what the fuck" and am now putting it on display for everyone to see. Please keep in mind that this is a work in progress. There's no real chronology to how the writings are posted, and most of them are copied verbatim (spelling errors & all) from the notebook from whence they came. There's only a lil' bit up now, but more is to come. So please, take a moment to peruse the random musings of a madman.

Helloooooo Brooooklyn...

Added some more shiz to my writings page. I can't find a lot of my old notebooks. That may make it difficult to post some of the things that are contained in said journal. I hope none of my stuff comes off as bad-goth-angsty-confused-teenager poetry. I don't consider my writings "poetry". There's nothing particularly poetic about any of it. It's pretty much all stream of consciousness. Sorta. I just write whatever comes into my head. I never edit or rewrite anything. I just try to capture the idea of whatever I'm thinking about at a given time in a way that's more than just straight journaling.

Trying to figure out what I'm going to do tonight. Anna is most likely staying in tonight. I feel like going out. I just dunno where, or with who.

wUrd.

Hmmm...veddy interstink...

I found this while randomly searching the web...


CNN World News
October 28, 1999

Mexican congress honors Irish who fought for Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico added the San Patricio Battalion to the names of national heroes inscribed in gold on the wall of Congress on Thursday, honoring the Irish soldiers who deserted the American army to fight for Mexico in the war of 1846-1848.

Some emigrants from Ireland in the early 19th century joined the U.S. Army as a way to obtain citizenship, and were sent off to fight in the U.S. invasion of Mexico.

It was a time when anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant prejudice was strong in the United States. A few of the soldiers, finding Mexico's Roman Catholic culture more appealing and the U.S. invasion unjust, deserted to the Mexican side.

They were among the most tenacious fighters in the Mexican army, which was defeated in 1848 with the U.S. capture of Mexico City. Most of the men from the Irish battalion were hung as deserters.

The ceremony coincided with the recent release of a film about the battalion, "One Man's Hero," in theaters in the capital.