Mormon Mentality - Thoughts and Asides by Peculiar People

By DKL

Sep. 8th, 2009 at 8:00 pm

We’re proud to announce an exciting new addition to our perma-blogger roster: Burgess. Burgess is well known for bringing us his poetic musings, as well as his unique point of view to such topics as BYU Grounds Crew Poetry, the BYU Standards Office. More recently, he’s posted an interesting analysis of the 2009 Burma Trespassing incident against Aung San Suu Kyi. He is a welcome addition to our blog.

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1. Steve Evans

Wed, Sep 9, 2009 @ 12:09pm

Welcome!

2. Tagore

Wed, Sep 9, 2009 @ 1:19pm

Welcome!

3. annegb

Wed, Sep 9, 2009 @ 1:29pm

I thought you were a perma blogger; I. am. so. out. to. lunch.

I’m even starting to get your poetry. Since yesterday.

4. Orwell

Wed, Sep 9, 2009 @ 1:39pm

We are not worthy.

5. annegb

Wed, Sep 9, 2009 @ 1:43pm

I am.

6. Burgess

Wed, Sep 9, 2009 @ 3:20pm

Thanks, friends. I’ll try and be a bit more regular.

7. a random John

Wed, Sep 9, 2009 @ 5:23pm

Welcome!

8. MCQ

Wed, Sep 9, 2009 @ 5:32pm

You mean he’s not already a perma here? I thought he was as well. Oh well, Welcome!

9. Ben Pratt

Wed, Sep 9, 2009 @ 11:15pm

Metamucil can help, Burgess. Write a poem about that.

10. Ben Pratt

Wed, Sep 9, 2009 @ 11:27pm

Wow that was embarrassingly impulsive.

I’m actually really glad to hear that you’re a perma, Burgess.

11. Brian Duffin

Thu, Sep 10, 2009 @ 3:13pm

Very nice. Look forward to reading your posts on MM.

12. Orwell

Thu, Sep 10, 2009 @ 3:21pm

@#10:

You weren’t the only one that thought it.

13. Scott Calhoun

Thu, Sep 10, 2009 @ 8:27pm

Burgess, I don’t know what kind of “deal” you have with these peculiar people, but if you continue to mine our old joint projects and pass them off as your own with some little lame attribution, byline, or an “I love you man”, thrown in at the end as if to say everything is cool between us, watch out. When you profit from this co-written material (and how could you not?), I want a cut of the google ad sense money, webinar and blognobinar royalties, U.S. as well as international publishing, electronic and film rights. I also think that it is only fair that you relinquish a portion of the email addresses from any hot and brainy women who contact you hoping to get closer to the author of such insightful poetry. If, as some have suggested, that “you” receive the coveted bloggernacle award, I demand joint custody of the plaque or trophy, or at the very least, a high-quality reproduction.

14. Burgess

Fri, Sep 11, 2009 @ 10:09am

If memory serves, Scott, the last time you sought some sort of “just division” of the proceeds accruing from my/our/my poetry projects was during my Weber County World Tour, 1996, when you first heckled me from the audience in a Books-a-Million in South Ogden, and then accosted me afterwards with some gardening shears you “borrowed” from the BYU grounds crew. We both know the outcome of that contest: the matter was settled old skool, pioneer-style.

15. Scott Calhoun

Fri, Sep 11, 2009 @ 12:29pm

When someone ends up with a wedge of their ear at the bottom of the Weber River after some Porter Rockwell vs. Capability Brown-style grappling, it doesn’t exactly “settle” anything, but whatever. By the way, did that oblong testicle of yours ever return to normal?

16. Scott Calhoun

Fri, Sep 11, 2009 @ 6:59pm

Burgess, do you ever get the feeling we are entertaining each other and possibly nobody else in this forum with my/your/my comments? I fear that with post #15 I have once again veered recklessly into the realm of Junior high bodily humor and offended a good portion of the earnest readers here. Back when I wrote for the SR, I had the heavy editorial hand of B.J. Fogg keeping me from violating BYU and community standards, but here I feel completely unleashed and it is liberating and frightening. I get the feeling that I am the only one drinking Hendrick’s gin and tonics while writing these posts. When I ask myself, ‘Did I cross a line, pioneer-style, in post #15?’ I have to reply, as Porter Rockwell might have: ‘Does a wooden horse have a hickory dick?’

17. Burgess

Tue, Sep 15, 2009 @ 10:13pm

Scott,

If you want, I can probably recruit BJ Fogg to edit and censor your material in the future, though I think his standards have probably changed over the years.
FWIW, I don’t really have any idea who or how many people actually read these comments.

18. Weber Carlo

Sat, Jul 23, 2011 @ 2:39pm

What an amazing blog. Keep posting, and I will visit here again soon. Thank you

19. weber q320

Sun, Nov 6, 2011 @ 10:33am

I really liked Burgess’s posting presenting an analysis of the 2009 Burma Trespassing incident against Aung San Suu Kyi. Burma needs more international awareness and more guidance from international organizations.