Rants

  1. Questions that Keep Giving No. 1

    There is no such thing as a stupid question, but some questions are post-Thanksgiving-prandial stuffed with implication. I swear the most telling sentences end with a question mark. How do you write neurotypical characters? Saw this on the Red-it. I don't have an account, though, so I'll have to circle-herk about it here instead. The expedient answer is standard fare: write characters until they're something like the ones in all the books you've read. You at least have almost infinite...
  2. What's a Folder?

    There are complaints from college teachers that young students either don't use or can't even grasp the concept of file directories. I didn't believe this at first, given that the terms file and folder are sort of there to help understand the slightly abstract notion of directories, and that operating systems are mostly visual (GUI) anyway. [URL]https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z[/URL]...
  3. Proportional Investment

    Or: just why exactly Thanksgiving is unbearable, and how it's your fault as much as it is Aunt Jones's. The too long, didn't read version of this is that critical evaluation needs to scale with emotional investment or you're just another dunce. Onward to the weeds... You know about weaving then attacking straw men. It's disingenuous at best, lazy at worst. The term is also now shorthand for 'I don't like your argument,' unfortunately, which is a shame but that's how language goes with...
  4. Happy Independence Day

    I put down Middlemarch temporarily. I’ve read like three other books since I started it; there are ~100 pages left, but I’ve taken up Main Street by Sinclair Lewis in the meantime. Reading an American novel is like a breath of fresh air. Happy Independence day, everyone. Fittingly, I am reenacting the American Revolution through my reading choices, and as in a mystery play entering into and partaking of that eternal moment; in a mystical recapitulation of it i am declaring my own...
  5. I have no mouth and I must scream

    James Dean, who died in 1955, just landed a new movie role, thanks to CGI - The Verge We fetishize celebrity so hard--it makes us so horny or whatever--that those Hollywood psychopaths feel the need to dig up and reanimate a 50s film star, decades after the flesh has rotted off his bones, to make a movie. There are live actors without the pall of death on them, and you decide to make a digital zombie out of James Dean. It's sick. It's a sign of unhinged capitalistic excess; it's a...
  6. ...to conquer all of me...

    The last couple of weeks for me have been somewhat distressing. It's the end of another grueling semester and well the pressure of all those final assignments being in has been getting to me. Aside from that recovering from the chicken pox i had recently is taking forever and i have know been crowned King Spot. My friends bow whenever i enter a room and shout, "Long live king Spot!" One guy even went to the extent of setting up speakers in my room and decided to play audio of a....of....what...
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  7. 2008: Officially the Worst Year...EVER!

    okay so i know it's not yet december but i feel that the last year can officially be dubbed the worst year of my entire life! so many bad things happened this year that its got me in a real bad mood for the holidays. it all strated in january when i broke up with my last girlfriend under very unpleasant circumstances:(. i spent the entire month constructing ways to express how i felt and started writing, which is a good thing which continued into february when i joined WF:) just after my...
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  8. Free-Verse for a Lioness

    I wrote this today and just thought it'd be a nice blog entry. I know there might not be any such word as paramoral but if there isnt...dibbs:D Alternative channels i have sought to allow my mind to be at ease. A fruitless search it was to find one as knowledgeable as thee. Ill Fate has dealt me a cruel blow to be forever confined in this repeated cycle of paramoral dysfunction. My heart stays bound by the lengthy trammels of her hair. My mind powerless to find an escape from this maze...
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  9. Writing and Depression: An Unavoidable Matrimony of Expression

    Ive just finished my first year of college and am gearing up for what i hope will be a good break and lots of writing. im hoping to get my novel started this month after nearly a year of planning and changing, im finally happy. In the last few weeks ive been trying to get my life in order, i got a new place which is great and close to school, i keep telling myself that i finally got over the girl i liked. denial is a bad thing i hate it. i told you that story so i could tell you this one....
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  10. Random Ranting From a Deserted Island

    Well the whole of today I’ve been thinking about my character the hitman and with every minute he becomes realer to me. Maybe it’s because I watched Hitman but I now find myself searching for answers to long asked questions. Like what is his motive for killing people, is it because he enjoys it, because he was brought up like 47. I struggle to find a legitimately genuine reason for him to kill others but its constantly bashing me against the wall. I’m frustrated. The last few hours I...
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  11. R.I.P. Tino

    okay firstly my real name is tino and he is dead, metaphorically. anyway this past few weeks i have felt my personality change alot. i used to be this reserved guy who enjoyed life and just went about his business but now i cant see anything positive about this world. think of me as an wodden scaffold that has been weakened by the rain of lies and the rot of distrust. people keep piling up on top of me until about a week ago i snapped...and went nuclear. all of a sudden ive become this...
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  12. At the bottom of the food chain...AGAIN!

    Okay there's one thing that i've always wondered about the age thing with women. How important is age when she's looking for a guy? i have spent the better part of my teenage years being attracted to girls my own age, dont know why:confused: anyway. ever since i was 13 or 14 i noted that girls my age tend to go for guys older than themselves. i was metaphorically at the bottom of the food chain. so i told myself, "Okay, i'll wait." until i was 18 when finally the younger girls<who i didnt...
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  13. Platform Wars: XBOX360vsPS3vsPC

    The end of 2007 saw a number of spectacular games send the year off in style, which were mainly aimed at the next generation consoles. I have been in plenty of arguments over XBOX vs PS but people always seem to neglect the power of the PC. I have recently played CRYSIS, CALL OF DUTY 4, GRAW 1&2, RAINBOW 6 VEGAS and WORLD IN CONFLICT, and it seems to me that the current set of next-gen consoles are at the moment on par if not below the PC. With PS3 already having frame rate problems with...
  14. Why do nice guys finish last?

    This is going to be my first and hopefully not last blog post. At the moment there seems to be one thing that bothers me about relationships between men and women...why do the nice guys never win? This is not only a movie conception but a reality for many guys out there. How many movies have you seen where there's a girl who has her perfectly nice guy who doesn't drink, is committed, works hard and all of that stuff, only to run away with the rogue ex-boyfriend who cheated on her and showed...
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