{"id":6126,"date":"2016-08-18T20:08:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T01:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deepsicks.com\/?page_id=6126"},"modified":"2022-06-19T13:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T18:30:23","slug":"what-is-deepsicks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/what-is-deepsicks\/","title":{"rendered":"What is deepsicks?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musings from April 2007<\/em><\/h2>\n

I don’t recall when “deepsicks” dawned on me. Some late-teen, early-twenties epiphany of word smashclash discovery, pulling together several things: deep six graves and deep six tossing over, combined with Dorothy Parker’s condemnation, “This is not a novel that should be read lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” Probably a bad thing, hey. But it piqued fascination and described my aspirations: to write with the energy, brightdark and grindoom that would incite being hurled across the room in awe\u2014the horror! the horror! the exaltation.<\/p>\n

Yes. Precious. Worse, chronic bronchitis (“the deep sick”) and a grueling high school basketball drill (“the deep six”\u009d) were also tied up in it. I’ve used it as internet moniker and a collection of ideals, loosely defined\u2014a rose by any other, a cut just as deep.<\/p>\n

Yet now… huh. This place was never all that gloomy, and the past several updates are predominately Happy Things, the site through and through a crossbreed of life celebration and self examination\u2014hardly the bleeding mess, disturbing text one might expect. Now that I am a well-adjusted adult (tar-har), how unfortunate I should hang my words beneath the banner “deepsicks”… or is it. I don’t know. I don’t like feeling that I need to defend deepsicks any more than the pressure to deny it, whether by trashing it here as youthful indiscretion or transferring my creative life to a less ominous domain.<\/p>\n

The name hasn’t limited me\u2014my experiences or expressions of them. It may cause pause for those unfamiliar with my work and personality, but I don’t believe it’s entirely a misnomer, either\u2014clever.cute or not. It’s like a tattoo. I wouldn’t get it now but I got then, and I’ve changed and stayed the same in remarkable ways. It meant and it means and I am still me, and honor the past smirkingly, forgetting for the moment I was always tongue-in-cheeky, a deadly goof and a sharp tool.<\/p>\n

So may your mouth corner tug, shoulder shrug yippee!<\/i> be quicker than your knee-jerk step-back whoa.<\/i> I pass pits of despair and point out the candy mountains but for the most part here, walk solid ground. And dance. A lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Musings from April 2007 I don’t recall when “deepsicks” dawned on me. Some late-teen, early-twenties epiphany of word smashclash discovery, pulling together several things: deep six graves and deep six tossing over, combined with Dorothy Parker’s condemnation, “This is not a novel that should be read lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” Probably…<\/span><\/p>\n

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