NQOKD stands for Not Quite Our Kind, Dear. It’s a term that several in the northeast have applied to me for various reasons, but I think James Gregory’s advert says it best:
[NQOKD] involves everything you can’t talk about at the dinner table like sex, violence, politics, and any number of things your mom would get mad at you for laughing about.
From my point of view, NQOKD talks about all those things that matter and ignores those which don’t. Humanity? Good. Fark? Bad. Generating viewership by pooling together talent? Good. Hawking publicity by recommenting, rehashing, retelling, and respinning content that viewers don’t care about, authors don’t want to write, and even the people the content is about don’t read? Bad.
I realize that puts me on the “wrong” side of a very defined marketing line, though, so marketers and PR people can stay over there, and I’ll remain NQOKD.
It's me! I'm me!
I study nonfiction writing through Emerson College’s MFA in Creative Writing. My focus on memoir has created articles that some have referred to as provocative and hard-hitting. Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti has published my work on her website Tant mieux, Cyrano’s Journal Online has also picked up an article from me, The Journal of Cultural Conversation hosts several guest posts from me, and Creative Nonfiction has picked up a number of short shorts. “Garden Part One” won the WOOF contest from PlotDog Press on July 24, 2009. I have read publicly through Emerson’s Graduate Reading Series and by invitation at The Breakwater Reading Series, and intend to do many more.
Mah man-i-fester
Welcome to NQOKD!
Also, a note on my advertising practices:
I try to use “minimal advertising,” meaning that I post ads in communities where I am active. I try not to spam, that is, to post ads without actively posting other content as well. I would appreciate any retweet and reposts plus any word-of-mouth you feel comfortable using in this blog’s service. It’s really the only way this blog will continue to grow at the rate at which it has so far.
2 Comments
July 26, 2009 at 10:57 am
I absolutely love the manifesto! I think I need to print it out and put it on my bulletin board!
July 26, 2009 at 7:39 pm
I use it as my laptop’s background, so when I’m working at a cafe people looking at my screen wondering, “What’s that fella writing?” can see “FUCK. THAT. SHIT.” very clearly.