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John Mundazio is a genX-boomer
renaissance man in the midst of a tumultuous, topsy-turvy world
that he just can't seem to adequately explain without using sock
puppets. "I believe a writer is someone who looks at the world a
bit differently than most of those poor saps around him. It's
not that he wears rose-colored glasses; however, he does have a
focused mental astigmatism that makes him look at the all-too
familiar in a different manner. He notices things, and often
comments on them in such a way that whichever acquaintance
happens to be walking beside him at that moment, oftentimes
pretends he's 'never met that guy before in his life.' His
friends sometimes fail to hear the subtle distinctions, but he
knows there's a talent to innuendo and out the other.
Eventually, as with all socially-unacceptable diseases, the
infection spreads. Drop an 'aside' and maybe one person will
hear it, but write it down and maybe the whole world will read
it! The class clown grows up and buys a computer and the printed
word is never the same again. In writing, I don't think we need
to bother ourselves with those nagging little details of
Politically Correct conventions, such as his or her, she/he, and
other minutiae. For, in writing, it's my opinion that 'he' is a
neutered term, although some of my male buddies, for some
reason, seem to squirm less when I say 'neutral term' instead.
If you were to ask my mother, she'd tell you I was a very odd
cartoon-like child. If you were to ask my father, he'd ask you
to remind him if I was child number 3, 6 or 7. He's still a bit
unclear on all of our names, but he does have us listed in order
of who actually cost him the most to raise."
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