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Me Against the Crack Pimp

Started by cherbert · 11 months ago

Check out this email I sent to a friend last night, from my BlackBerry, on the way out of the city:

Hey man, I just did something crazy.

It involves you, actually, because the story starts just as I was

dialing your phone number. I had just got into a car in nyc, a town

car, and I […] ... Continue reading »

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  • White Owls burning kinda slow

    11 months ago

    I love this post. I wanted it to be real; but, in true Hemingway style, it wasn't. Hemingway was obsessed with his own cowardice, much like you. In fact, his testosterone infused writing was really a reaction to his own insecurities. He salivated over the bull fighters because he knew he could never step in the ring himself. He elevates bullfighters in his writing because he knew he didn't have the courage to actually be one. Check out "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" Hemingway is Francis in that story. Essentially, he is the rich guy who had to pay a guide to take himself and his wife out to the wild to hunt big game. However, we comes upon the lion, he can't shoot it. He wusses out. Later on the truly "manly" guide bangs his wife and has the courage to actually kill, unlike Macomber. Macomber does nothing about the guide banging his wife and tries to push down the fear he has when hunting. Anyway. So in reality, you are writing like Hemingway, in that you are making up fictional stories about the man you wish you could be but are not. Tough territory. It worked for Hemingway, maybe it can work for you. This is much better than your pansy ass "sailing story." This is a step up from the littany of crappy recent posts. There is a reason why ManagerMom's blog has blown up - she is a clever writer and she doesn't put up posts about some silly apple - without actually writing about it. This post is evidence that you could blow up too. Yet, if you don't step it up, I am going to start my own blog dedicated to my complete bafflement that you actually have chosen to live in Stamford. Stamford is God's proof of the levels of depravity that humans will plunge to in the quest for money. People will actually willingly dehumanize themselves and live in apartments in Stamford. Stamford incites the same fear in my soul that CO-OP city did the first time I saw its Orwellian uniformity.
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  • Wunda

    11 months ago

    "wait, wait, wait. are you the black...." PUNCH
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