Rants

  1. First jokes

    This took me roughly 45 mins to write these jokes. This is my first attempt at writing basically anything. Let me know what you think and how you think I could make them better. Do you give a shit what happens to your body after you die? Fuck that I don’t. Bury me, cremate me, cook me and feed me to the neighbors, I don’t care. Shove a stick up my ass and wield me around like a puppet for a goof at Halloween time I like how enough people have choked themselves to death while jerking off...
  2. Aliens From Outer Within

    or: Same Species-Wide Angst Leading to Rejection of Humanism, Different Name I've timestamped the discussion. It's not about who says it. It just happens to be quite illustrative. “I think it's possible they operate in the space of ideas for example. Ideas could be aliens. Feelings could be aliens. Consciousness itself could be aliens.” Lex is further along the evolutionary path than most alien contact believers. He's wisely given up on there being tangible evidence, and instead reached...
  3. 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...
  4. 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]...
  5. 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...
  6. I Can't Believe It's Not Tragic

    I'm rediscovering books outside the fantasy genre. Well, okay, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club has a few mystic elements. So does Ruby, by Ann Hood (but that doesn't mean I like it.) The Other Side of Silence by Andre Brink is grounded yet so deliriously poetic that I don't suppose it counts. Second Helpings, by Megan McCafferty, was the most mundane and candid of my stack, and the main character gets slammed for it at her writer's workshop, which got me blogging. I know, conflict is...
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