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in the same way that blackmask doesn't like posts that aren't filled with hate. perhaps his name should be changed to black heart?
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I don't think that would be a good idea. Exposing your kids to, well, you fulltime doesn't sound like the ideal environment for learning. Unless it's about comics. Or hate.
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Yeah. If I read fewer comics my family might not want me dead. If only I could break this damnable comics addiction. It's taking over my life and making me a horrible person. If I could kick the comics maybe I wouldn't be such a vile arsehole. It's the comics. It's not me. It's the comics. As soon as I kick my addiction I'll be a better person. You'll see. That always works.
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It's not just the comics obviously. But it would be a good place to start. It's mostly the soul full of hatred, but I suspect that if you tried to get rid of that, you'd literally curl up into a ball on the ground and die.
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quote:Originally posted by herbs: This is a bit embarrassing.
yeah, but I've got a few hours to kill before my next meeting, and quite frankly I don't really have anything better to do at the moment.
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quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Yeah. If I read fewer comics my family might not want me dead. If only I could break this damnable comics addiction. It's taking over my life and making me a horrible person. If I could kick the comics maybe I wouldn't be such a vile arsehole. It's the comics. It's not me. It's the comics. As soon as I kick my addiction I'll be a better person. You'll see. That always works.
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Maybe BlackMask had a terrible childhood? Maybe his parents didn't let him read comics? And now that he's an adult, his making up for lost time?
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I wonder why Blacky can't get it through his thick skull that comics and hatred are two distinct issues that he obviously needs to come to grips with?
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I suspect Blacky's father left his family at an early age. There couldn't have been a strong male role model in that household.
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quote:Originally posted by London: Let's ALL point out how we're losing at life!
One of the things Bret EE nails in Less Than Zero is the way, in a media-saturated hyperscape, the odd phrase or fragment can still leap out at you, apparently at random, and haunt you for days or months after ('disappear here', 'people are afraid to merge' etc).
The one that got me was a couple of years back - a stray line from back when Eminem was still good (or maybe he was on the cusp of about-to-decline?). Anyway, the line involved him enthusing about you, the listener, having a go at rapping yourself and how, in the deathless brawl of hip-hop, the only slightly aged are rapidly overtaken by the young and enraged. The line was
Hung-r-y / Like a fuckin younger me
As with a lot of hip-hop lines, part of the joke was in how a single word in the first half of the couplet was dislocated to fit better with the second, but there's something else there, something we maybe all recognise as Time trains its hairdryer straight into our faces for the thirt-mpth year running: fears about talents that have peaked, potential that's already starting to show a little half-empty AA battery in the corner of its screen.
There's still time - just - for me to be a young writer; still time, if I complete and publish something in the next couple of years, say. But where time used to be something completely abstract, it's now as finite as a simple calculation of how many words I wrote in the past year multiplied by how many productive years I have to come.
Time to 'get writing' me old mate!
Think about it: hungry / like a fuckin younger me.
Sighting one's doppelganger was always a terrible omen.
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If only Blacky would spend more quality time with his kids instead of comics and gayming. Perhaps they wouldn't grow up to be the serial killers they're destined to become.
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quote:Originally posted by ben: fears about talents that have peaked, potential that's already starting to show a little half-empty AA battery in the corner of its screen.
You only need to write one good book to be a contender, though. I don't know if anyone's ever plotted a graph with quality of book on one axis and age of author on the other, but I bet the line climbs steadily upwards until you hit around 70 years old when it plummets.
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