Moral and Ethical Dilemmas:

Here are some situations I or someone I know may or may not be dealing with at present. I'd like everyone's honest opinions about these in general. As usual, I will not be entertaining any inquiries about who the people involved may or may not be:

1. Someone in X's therapy group is lying thier ass off. The only reason X knows about it is due to a privileged situation. The lies are not only detrimental to the teller; but it wastes the time of the group at large. What action, if any, should X take?

2. Y has been asked to read the writing of an acquiantance who might potentially turn into a friend. The writing is juvenile, purile and does not achieve the stated objective. How honest should Y be?

3. Q has a crush on Z. Both Q and Z are involved in presumably stable yet occasionally unfulfilling relationships with other people. Niether Q nor Z is interested in having an affair. Is it appropriate for Q and Z to spend time together alone? Should thier respective relationship partners be kept aware of the time-spending?

4. X has been asked to attend a religious service of a faith, not thier own, followed by a secular celebration. They have no problem attending the service and the celebration, but wonder if it might appear disrespectful to do so. Is it more appropriate to skip the religious portion of the cerimony, even though they were invited?

Ho-Hum

Went to pick up Clarence's ashes today with uterdic, whom I see very little of these days. I won't go into all the details of that and my horrible thought process; but suffice to say, this is still a total fucking drag. Pentelope is fine now. Her new fave hobby is still swatting at bubbles.

I need to find an illustrator, by which I mean someone who can draw scary bloody scenes and has time to undertake a large project sometime soon. I have been wanting to turn my long zombie story into a comic for quite some time. But I can't draw and need a very serious partner in this endeavor. So if you know anyone...do hip them to me.

TV sucks. I hardly turn it on anymore, although right now I'm sort of watching a nature show. I've been playing music instead, letting my mind wander. That's a big thing for me, since I like to keep sort of a tight leash on my wandering mind. You never know what kind of ghoulish place it will wander to, or what it will do when it gets there. Besides, TV is fucking boring and repetitive and garish. If it were a place, I would not stay for very long and it would probably make me have a headache.

Do any of you writers out there write with a partner? How's that working out for ya? I often wonder if it would be a help or a hinderance to write with another person. I'm moody and meticulous about my work. (Not my LJ mind you, but my actual writing.) Plus, aren't most writing teams comedy writers? My work is more like sarcastic horror about crazy people...so that's not as funny I guess. Anyway, I'd love to hear the input of those who have writing partners.

On a completely unrelated topic, am I the only person here who used to think hippopotami had squared off teeth? When I was a kid...in the 70''s and early 80's, even pictures of hippos had squared off teeth. They were like that on tv, at the zoo...everywhere. And then when that Congo book came out and people were talking about it, I was like What are they so scared of? Hippos can't hurt you! But it turns out that they have huge fangs. Who knew? At least I'm not as dense as my cousin; He thought they ate white marbles. heh heh heh