Everything2
Near Matches
Ignore Exact
Full Text
Everything2

Excalibur

 

user since
Mon May 20 2002 at 06:49:38 (6 years ago )
last seen
Thu May 15 2008 at 04:04:18 (1.9 hours ago )
number of write-ups
167 - View Excalibur's writeups (feed)
level / experience
7 (Artisan) / 28311
C!s spent
902
mission drive within everything
to throw stuff at people
specialties
linguistics, omphaloskepsis, setting people on fire with my mind
school/company
Michigan State University
motto
but try that what I trying to get at, dont gotta mock the fucker that trys, alright?
most recent writeup
An Open Letter to the Democratic National Committee

Jane Goodall needs some good lovin'.









  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~  









Google says: Excalibre is a unique turfgrass species that combines excellent salt tolerance with a beautiful rich blue-green color.

How right they are.









  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~  









I am found in these places

/msg forward: ex
email: excalibre@gmail.com
last.fm: http://www.last.fm/user/Excalibre (you can examine and pass judgment on my musical taste there.)
AIM: VileExcalibre
Address and phone available if you ask. I'm not all secretive and shit, but EMAR and our homenodes are indexed by Google and I don't need the whole goddamn world getting that stuff just from knowing my screen name, you know?









  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~  









On E2

This place has always meant one thing to me in particular: brilliant writing. At its best, that's what this place fosters - I don't think there's anyone who participates on E2 who is not made into a better writer in the process. The content of the site doesn't have much else in common - some of it is stories and poetry, some of it is pure factual information, and some of it is little glimpses at people's lives. We're willing to read anything here on E2, so long as it's good, and whatever you might think about the overall quality of the content here, I don't think you can deny that there's more gems hidden away in the corners than you're likely to find anywhere else.

Brilliant writeups

There's way too many to choose from, but here's a selection of stuff that I just think exemplifies what this place is about. Some of it's fascinating, some of it's funny, some of it is just bits of human experience - E2 has a broader spectrum of content than anywhere else.

As for what to emulate if you're new? Look anywhere on the site. You'll find something wonderful. I've given examples above, but here's some more brilliant writing to look at.

If you look at the things I've linked to, you might notice one of the things that makes this place unique. On E2, there's room for a personal touch; even dry knowledge can be made funny, and interesting, and more thought-provoking when the writer lets their voice through. The best factual writings are the ones that integrate the writer's feelings, or the impact they've felt. The human side of E2 is what separates it from places that offer only bare fact.

E2 and me

A few pieces of my own best work (even though it feels presumptuous to juxtapose them with the above).









  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~  









The Von Wicked Chronicles

A joint project by Evil Catullus and myself, telling the story of Herr Doktor Robert Von Wicked and his sometimes-wife, sometimes-arch-nemesis, the Contessa Julia Von Wicked, supervillains and hopeless romantics.

By me

By Evil Catullus









  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~  









Once upon a time I promised to do node audits, and I enjoyed it, but I'm really, really bad about sticking to things like that. My apologies to the people who asked who I never got to.









  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~  









Free yourself of the tyranny of no outside links! Through the use of any of the Mozilla browsers (I use Mozilla Firefox) and the linkification extension (http://www.beggarchooser.com/firefox/) you can turn plaintext links into real ones!









  ~ ~   #  ~ ~  









  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~  









  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~  









  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~  









  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~   #  ~ ~  









  Epicenter
Login
Password

password reminder
register

Everything2 Help

Cool Staff Picks
Just another sprinkling of indeterminacy
The Kinsey Institute
Garry Owen
e
colonial mentality
Super Candles
Le Morte d'Arthur
Causa Belli
Fifteen minutes 'til Kyrie
Hotel
biopiracy
Dany Heatley
Four great vows
Teenage Dirtbag
New Writeups
destination unknown
msg yourself(person)
destination unknown
Turkey(person)
SteveMurrayFromNZ
Waiver(idea)
nailbiter
nerve stapling(thing)
locke baron
Multiple Myeloma(thing)
SubSane
blonde, freckles, skinny, short(person)
arcanamundi
A Ruba'iyat for May(person)
riverrun
Timed Writing(idea)
auraseer
Fling(fiction)
StrawberryFrog
Iron Man(review)
devolution
Misogyny and Porn, East to West - An Empirical Analysis(idea)
devolution
Korea is a place that refuses to stand still(idea)
Beanie127
The Pacifist Soldier(fiction)
VergilKint
Distilled from Dreams(fiction)
Scaevola
Roman marriage(thing)
E2 is a by-product of the existence of The Everything Development Company