avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 15, 2012 - 8:45am
"Don't let Rachel Harris scare you!"
But she was soooo scary!
"Now google "two girls one cup".
Okay, I have heard about this a lot. And I swear to you i don't know what it is. And I don't want to. I don't even stop and consider it. My brain has enough dumb stuff in it. I see that and I think, "Nope! Not for me!" And move on. Much like an argument on forgiveness. Which might not be an oxymoron in the strictest sense, but it should be.
ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigFebruary 15, 2012 - 9:07am
Late to the party as usual, but:
Someone please give an examples of how a works of fiction (besides religious texts) can change the world besides getting more people to read and influencing the tastes of readers and writers.
If you change people, you change the world. i have a really low bar for what it means to make a difference, so maybe that's it. But no one, not even a world ruler is going to wake up one morning, do one thing, and change the world for the better. My version of changing the world has to do with the way various things have changed me, they changed me, so I changed my actions, my attitudes, etc, which changed the way I interacted with others, and so on. If people really want to make a big difference they have to think small--that's my little hopeful world view.
Anyway, I chose option A because I think the story I would call my magnum opus is special and it deserves to be read, not necessarily because it would change the "world". I hope it's good enough to change a few people's views on things, but even if it isn't, having it read it worth much more than having the money, and I am not just pontificating here, I've actually thought this through (regarding this one project) in the past.
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 15, 2012 - 9:26am
I don't know what to think about the guy who posts disturbing/off-color images all over the threads calling something "gross and pathetic". Methinks I smell a hypocrite!
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 15, 2012 - 9:45am
Fine, enjoy your poop eating, even I have limits. Yeah, that was the only season of real world that mattered, when the concept of the show made sense instead of becoming a bunch of posturing wannabes desperate to get famous. The one guy on that season judd winick became a writer for DC comics, hes really good and that season was about pedro zamora, who died of AIDS after that show ended. It was the first real honest look at a person living with HIV on a reality show ever. Or even the other season in New York where this chick stayed with homeless people and actually got to know them. That was a show that actually taught young people compassion, now MTV kids just watch Jersey shore and want to know who is effing who. This current generation got really superficial.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 15, 2012 - 11:34am
I got to go with changing the world on this one. Besides, isn't it the case if you're truly a great artist no one loves you unless you're dead? If it changes the world after I am dead, or even while I am alive, great.
To hell with it. Besides, changing the world brings power, so which corrupts more? Money or power?
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 15, 2012 - 11:57am
gypsie curses account for 80% of cases where people have been afflicted with writing.
I was actually hit with a vodoo curse for a disagreement that I had with a Haitian downtown (in Charlotte Amalie) when I was like 8 and back then I used to run errands for my dad's office in the summer (outgoing mail, picking up documents, etc.) and I thought it would be amusing to cultivate a skill as a pickpocket since I figured I knew the streets way better than the tourists.
I think I pulled it off successfully... once... but this Haitian who saw me do it lectured me and then put a vodoo curse on me when I fled.
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 15, 2012 - 12:02pm
I ate the grilled cheese. My immune system is the cellular equivalent of an ocean-sized school of hungry piranhas. We could cure most epidemics if I could produce enough blood to share with everybody.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 15, 2012 - 12:20pm
Nikki Minaj has made some fine rap songs in the course of her career, I still haven't watched that video yet (although I saw in on HuffPo the other day and these kids were talking about it in class yesterday) since I've pretty much hated every song since "Shitted on them" (Superbass is OK), but mostly I liked her guest verses on, say "Bottoms Up," "5 Star Bitch," or "Bedrock."
And I have no interest in watching her do what I've heard referred to as "Lady Gaga shit."
J.Dulouz
from New England is reading The Sirens of TitanFebruary 15, 2012 - 12:48pm
Utah, you realize by sharing that, you've now doomed yourself now to years of study as a lab monkey. I wouldn't answer the door for the next few weeks if I were you.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 15, 2012 - 1:00pm
They have 8 pills for my dick, thousands of miracle cures for my skin, and even pills for something called, "restless leg syndrome, and now glow in the dark monkies? How about fucking curing cancer? Or AIDS? What the hell is wrong with our culture?
To quote Patton Oswalt. "Hi, we're science, all about coulda, not about shoulda."
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 15, 2012 - 1:02pm
@nick--well, it's from the perspective of her male alter ego, "Roman Zolanski", like Roman Polanski, get it, get it, get it....
She is trying really hard though, I'll give her that but it's like if you are going to dedicate yourself to being creepy and dark, you have to go all the way with it. Just showing up to the Grammy's with an old man dressed like the Pope and singing, "I feel pretty" when you are 'possessed' doesn't work for me.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 15, 2012 - 1:06pm
Nick, why are you so afraid to expose yourself to terrible things? I'm sure you will watch granny gangbangs and 2 girls one cup but one bad exorcist performance and you get all gunshy. Come on, man, this is not the Russian man I fell in love with.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 15, 2012 - 1:09pm
I'm not Russian. I'm Polish.
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And I think what holds me back is that I like Nikki Minaj and don't really want to watch every step of her career's decline. Sigh, you've guilted me into looking though.
"Don't let Rachel Harris scare you!"
But she was soooo scary!
"Now google "two girls one cup".
Okay, I have heard about this a lot. And I swear to you i don't know what it is. And I don't want to. I don't even stop and consider it. My brain has enough dumb stuff in it. I see that and I think, "Nope! Not for me!" And move on. Much like an argument on forgiveness. Which might not be an oxymoron in the strictest sense, but it should be.
But you do know what it is. Diaz just told you.
It's easy to tell yourself that it's chocolate ice cream, though.
I thought you were talking about two separate things. Now I really AM confused.
Late to the party as usual, but:
If you change people, you change the world. i have a really low bar for what it means to make a difference, so maybe that's it. But no one, not even a world ruler is going to wake up one morning, do one thing, and change the world for the better. My version of changing the world has to do with the way various things have changed me, they changed me, so I changed my actions, my attitudes, etc, which changed the way I interacted with others, and so on. If people really want to make a big difference they have to think small--that's my little hopeful world view.
Anyway, I chose option A because I think the story I would call my magnum opus is special and it deserves to be read, not necessarily because it would change the "world". I hope it's good enough to change a few people's views on things, but even if it isn't, having it read it worth much more than having the money, and I am not just pontificating here, I've actually thought this through (regarding this one project) in the past.
Its Puck who ate the peanut butter with his scabby finger. Two girls one cup is gross and pathetic and should not be watched by anyone.
Yeeesss, Puck.
I don't know what to think about the guy who posts disturbing/off-color images all over the threads calling something "gross and pathetic". Methinks I smell a hypocrite!
Well, possibly, what does it smell like?
Kinda like this grilled cheese sandwich I'm only just now realizing I forgot and left in my desk drawer last week.
Danny, you smell like an old grilled cheese sandwich!
Seriously? I mean about the sandwich. I'm so scared right now. Are you going to eat it?
Fine, enjoy your poop eating, even I have limits. Yeah, that was the only season of real world that mattered, when the concept of the show made sense instead of becoming a bunch of posturing wannabes desperate to get famous. The one guy on that season judd winick became a writer for DC comics, hes really good and that season was about pedro zamora, who died of AIDS after that show ended. It was the first real honest look at a person living with HIV on a reality show ever. Or even the other season in New York where this chick stayed with homeless people and actually got to know them. That was a show that actually taught young people compassion, now MTV kids just watch Jersey shore and want to know who is effing who. This current generation got really superficial.
I think we were always superficial.
Hey, I used to care about something. Then life got sad and long.
No I mean historically, if you look at people through out history, if they got enough money, they got pretty superficial.
Well I grew up poor. My cousin on the other hand wanted to be Kate Moss, lived in Newport Beach and made herself throw up.
And if you had money, you would have been superficial.
No, I would have been Whitney Houston and drowned in the bathtub.
is it pathetic that I'm still tuning in to see if Utah did, indeed, eat the week old, grilled cheese sandwich?
Since he hasn't responded, I assume he did. And then died.
I kinda pictured him goin out in a blaze of glory. doesn't seem the type to be bested by a floppy ol' cheese sandwich.
You over estimate him.
I got to go with changing the world on this one. Besides, isn't it the case if you're truly a great artist no one loves you unless you're dead? If it changes the world after I am dead, or even while I am alive, great.
To hell with it. Besides, changing the world brings power, so which corrupts more? Money or power?
Bloody Money 50%
Eternal Glory 50%
Either we are well sorted or a bunch of OCD cases.
@flaminia_klla agreed. I don't know why anyone would want to be a writer.
Idk. I was cursed when I was little.
Fact.
gypsie curses account for 80% of cases where people have been afflicted with writing.
I was actually hit with a vodoo curse for a disagreement that I had with a Haitian downtown (in Charlotte Amalie) when I was like 8 and back then I used to run errands for my dad's office in the summer (outgoing mail, picking up documents, etc.) and I thought it would be amusing to cultivate a skill as a pickpocket since I figured I knew the streets way better than the tourists.
I think I pulled it off successfully... once... but this Haitian who saw me do it lectured me and then put a vodoo curse on me when I fled.
I ate the grilled cheese. My immune system is the cellular equivalent of an ocean-sized school of hungry piranhas. We could cure most epidemics if I could produce enough blood to share with everybody.
Is Nicki Minaj like a popular artist or something? Cause I saw this and had to laugh...
It's like the Exorcist the musical.
Nikki Minaj has made some fine rap songs in the course of her career, I still haven't watched that video yet (although I saw in on HuffPo the other day and these kids were talking about it in class yesterday) since I've pretty much hated every song since "Shitted on them" (Superbass is OK), but mostly I liked her guest verses on, say "Bottoms Up," "5 Star Bitch," or "Bedrock."
And I have no interest in watching her do what I've heard referred to as "Lady Gaga shit."
@Utah - I'll be sure they put all that in your obituary.
Don't be snide.
@Utah, are you a vampire from True Blood or something? Also, my blood smells like cologne
@Matt: I don't know. Does their skin sparkle in the sunlight like mine?
Utah, you realize by sharing that, you've now doomed yourself now to years of study as a lab monkey. I wouldn't answer the door for the next few weeks if I were you.
They dont sparkle, but they are rednecks. You should drink True Blood instead of eating though.
That could be why my stomach is reacting badly to the Kung Pao chicken I just ate.
I apologize for the snide remark. Hope you live.
Hey, do you guys know about the monkeys that they crossed with jellyfish to make them glow in the dark? True thing.
@Utah, no thats the mud butt.
@Avery, um, what?
oh yeah! the jonkeys! actually I haven't. what would be the use for such a hybrid?
This was years ago. I was in high school when I heard about it.
They have 8 pills for my dick, thousands of miracle cures for my skin, and even pills for something called, "restless leg syndrome, and now glow in the dark monkies? How about fucking curing cancer? Or AIDS? What the hell is wrong with our culture?
To quote Patton Oswalt. "Hi, we're science, all about coulda, not about shoulda."
@nick--well, it's from the perspective of her male alter ego, "Roman Zolanski", like Roman Polanski, get it, get it, get it....
She is trying really hard though, I'll give her that but it's like if you are going to dedicate yourself to being creepy and dark, you have to go all the way with it. Just showing up to the Grammy's with an old man dressed like the Pope and singing, "I feel pretty" when you are 'possessed' doesn't work for me.
Well, asshole, it had to do with AIDS research. Happy now? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/glow-in-the-dark-cats-jellyfish-and-monkeys-may-prevent-aids/2011/09/12/gIQAdq89MK_blog.html
Still not gonna watch it. I'm sure it is bad.
Silly Avery, I'm never happy, I am a writer. I like the kitties though.
Nick, why are you so afraid to expose yourself to terrible things? I'm sure you will watch granny gangbangs and 2 girls one cup but one bad exorcist performance and you get all gunshy. Come on, man, this is not the Russian man I fell in love with.
Yeah Jessica, you aren't a real writer unless you cut yourself and hate life. Yeah, fuck you life, you and all your trees!
I'm not Russian. I'm Polish.
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And I think what holds me back is that I like Nikki Minaj and don't really want to watch every step of her career's decline. Sigh, you've guilted me into looking though.
@Alien, I almost expected you to say "nuke the whales" after that rant. LOL
Wait, why am I an asshole? I said I liked the kitties.