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Fylh from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is reading March 28, 2013 - 3:28pm

TWO THUMBS UP FOR GARY NUMAN'S SONIC EXPERIMENTS!

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest March 28, 2013 - 3:30pm

Does anyone else see the contradiction between Phil's pic and the name of this thread?

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Strange Photon from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyrics March 28, 2013 - 3:30pm

Without my glasses, I read that as you slinking away with your two thumbs fucked into your pocket. Which, to me, could plausibly make sense.

You thumbed people think you're so cool, what with all your hitchhiking and shit.

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Strange Photon from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyrics March 28, 2013 - 3:32pm

I don't see a contradiction at all. His pic doesn't say he doesn't suck. It just acknowledges that we, too, in fact, suck.

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest March 28, 2013 - 3:33pm

...and shit

- Is this supposed to be some lewd Little Jack Horner joke?

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Fylh from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is reading March 28, 2013 - 3:33pm

When a vacuum cleaner doesn't suck, it's broken. Some things were meant to suck.

Which brings me to your mom... 

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest March 28, 2013 - 3:34pm

Which brings me to your mom... 

- My mom's dead, Phil...

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Strange Photon from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyrics March 28, 2013 - 3:35pm

LOL, I don't see enough yo mama jokes in here.

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Fylh from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is reading March 28, 2013 - 3:40pm

My mom's dead too, man, and it didn't stop me from writing a book that sucked.

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest March 28, 2013 - 3:43pm

I really thought you were better than that, Phil. And, for the record, I read your book, and didn't think it sucked... that bad.

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Fylh from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is reading March 28, 2013 - 3:48pm

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being Will Chris Baer and 10 being Faulkner, I'm probably a 4, which is a Dan Brown.

/provocation

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest March 28, 2013 - 3:51pm

Well, I haven't read Baer or Brown so I can't be certain, but I'll take your word for it.

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Fylh from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is reading March 28, 2013 - 3:52pm

You're a good man, Moon.

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest March 28, 2013 - 3:55pm

I have my moments, Fylh Phil.

So, you really don't like Baer? I was sent a book of all his work but haven't read it. 

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Fylh from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is reading March 28, 2013 - 4:01pm

Nah, I very much dislike Baer, and once, around the time I made this thread, I "contributed" a long post here just listing the amount of times he mentioned a character's gun in a book. I suppose I haven't been posting here in long enough now that such moments are irrelevant.

All I have these days is my memories, and some explosive devices that I strap around my waist when I'm afraid of violent street crime.

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest March 28, 2013 - 4:07pm

I'll still read it at some point and judge for myself. I like books about guns, but not mentioning them every couple of pages or so. I read and write crime stories, so I may like it. To each his own and all that shit. By the way, no need for the explosives. Just jump around, pull at your hair and yell non-sensical bullshit and nobody will fuck with you.

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry March 28, 2013 - 4:19pm

How could you not like a guy who writes books about people who play a role playing game that involves biting one another's tongues in a nonsexual manner?

I'm breaking up with you.

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest March 28, 2013 - 4:23pm

How could you not like a guy who writes books about people who play a role playing game that involves biting one another's tongues in a nonsexual manner?

- I'm assuming you're talking about Mr. Baer?

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry March 28, 2013 - 4:30pm

Of course!  I thought that was what we're talking about.

He hasn't published anything in years, and I think it's because he read all the mean shit that Phil wrote about him in 2011 and walked out into traffic.

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jyh from VA is reading whatever he feels like March 28, 2013 - 4:32pm

Joining the thread only to "lol" at Utah—

which is why I suck. Can't do anything about it; once you're in a thread, that's it, done, finito.

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Fylh from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is reading March 29, 2013 - 1:56am

I've been writing mean things about Baer since at least 2007. I was over Baer before it was ever cool to be over Baer, which hasn't happened yet. I'm just that good.

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry March 29, 2013 - 4:13am

I think you just don't like him because his last name is more European than yours.*

 

 

*I always consider that Germans are more European than all the other Europeans.  Except maybe for the French.  Is Jourdan a French surname?

I'm confusing myself.

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Fylh from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is reading March 29, 2013 - 7:31am

Jourdan is a French name. Like "Jordan" and "Jourdain" — all refer to the River Jordan. JESUS POWER

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Strange Photon from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyrics March 29, 2013 - 7:36am

Moon should like that, since he's so enamoured with crucifiction.

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry March 29, 2013 - 8:30am

Jourdan is a French name.

I knew it.  It has the "zh" sound instead of the "j" sound, right?

In that case, your name is probably just as European as Baer's, so I'm all out of reasons why you would hate his writing.  I think maybe this all stems from that time we got drunk and I said, "I'm not a big fan of Faulkner.  Read Pylon.  Wasn't impressed," and you, grasping at straws for a way to hurt me, said, "Well I think that W.C. Baer is overrated!" not realizing that I had said earlier in the conversation that I was a fan of Bear Grylls, not Will-Chris Baer.

Easy misunderstanding to make.

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ReneeAPickup from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck Wendig March 29, 2013 - 8:14pm

When I want to feel happy I pronounce Phil's full name with the proper accent. Works every time.

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Thuggish from Vegas is reading Day of the Jackal December 9, 2013 - 9:19pm

Anyone notice that nobody puts the second half, "and what you can do about it" in?  

Except the OP-er, who did it later, because he's done something about it.