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#4516
Quote from: Suu on October 25, 2009, 05:34:23 PM
Me: "Oh God, this is the London game, isn't it?"

J: "Yes, we're winning 7 nothing."

Me: "-We- aren't winning anything. The Patriots are winning, and I'm a Bucs fan."

J: *gives me a look* "Well, I don't like sports anyway."


:?

Now we're winning 14 nothing.
#4517
What, if anything, does your store carry to make me into Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange?
#4518
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Pre existing conditions.
October 25, 2009, 01:56:09 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on October 25, 2009, 01:08:15 PM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on October 25, 2009, 05:36:11 AM
I love this country  :horrormirth:

Whatever's wrong with your country was a pre existing condition as well.

:mittens:
#4519
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Re: Hey, Suu
October 25, 2009, 01:15:14 PM
Those rivets aren't failing, either, nor did the manufacturer fail by installing them.  Those little studs of strength don't betray, they assist in making the inevitable that much less horrible than finding what waits in the the deep.  Rosie the Riveter is a mercy killer and even if she saves you in more than the one way it's still a damn funny gag.  Put her visage to motion and her famed determination cracks into a knowing, sly smirk like someone trying, oh trying hard not to laugh when they know it's not appropriate but it's so funny and why don't they get it?  She'll take off the bandanna to let wild hair flow freely and unroll her sleeves to reveal the trick of the golden apple hidden just behind that clenched bicep.

We have an odd fascination with those dark places in the ocean, we go there to escape and we go there to understand and, Rosie help us, we go there just because we can and we want to know what it's like.  After all we've got this wondrous shell around us, all that support and knowledge, research and evolution, the rest of the mighty and fearless along for the ride.  What we don't share as a crew is a subtle panicky voice asking what the hell we're doing in a submarine why are we diving and why are we called sailors aren't ships supposed to stay afloat isn't that what they're all about after all the deep ends at some point but the horizon just keeps going plus, y'know, there's sunshine.

I'm not the crazy one.  The poor saps on level seas are scared by storms and waves that I welcome as points of rest, respite from stirring unknowns or, worse, endless silence and darkness.  We whisper to respect that quiet, or maybe because we know its reverberation could rattle the instruments loose straining from endless waters all around, or maybe we're afraid something will hear us.  Our brightest lights are dimmed by the encompassing, I now hesitate to call it water, this midnight ichor bears no resemblance to loving rains.  I'm not the crazy one, here diving deeper in terrified, hysterical glee.

I'm one of the lucky ones.  I'm at the controls.
#4520
Literate Chaotic / Re: NaNoWriMo 2009?
October 25, 2009, 01:23:25 AM
I want to maybe work on this premise from the Original Story Ideas thread.

Quote from: Eater of Clowns on July 13, 2009, 05:37:28 PM
Slightly different idea in the same vein, a world where literally that which does not kill you only makes you stronger.  The entire world shifts from pain aversion to pain seeking behavior with accidental deaths skyrocketing from those trying to push their physical limits.  The survivors of such radical measures become virtually indestructible.  Governments regularly abuse their own soldiers within inches of their lives in an arms race based on superhuman combat.  Police forces need to likewise train their officers in order to combat gangs swelling with Herculean members.  "Non-lethal" methods of subduing criminals such as tazing and pepper spray are useless, as the dosage required to stop a veritable behemoth would kill any "average" human.  Our hero is a journalist investigating what brought this phenomenon about two generations ago, and stumbles upon a terrible truth.  He is hunted by private and national interests to silence his discovery, which includes how to reverse the shift.  He succeeds, only to bring society to the brink of collapse, every aspect of life having depended on our newfound strength.

It's been stuck in my head since then, but I think it would only really work as a graphic novel.  I might be able to do NaNoWriMo with panel and page layout descriptions adding to the daily word count as well as captions and dialogue.

I'm picking up Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner to hopefully digest before the month is out so I have some grasp as to how it all comes together.
#4521
Or Kill Me / Re: Optimists: A Call to Arms
October 24, 2009, 11:18:51 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on October 24, 2009, 10:29:46 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 24, 2009, 08:01:40 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 23, 2009, 10:26:18 PM
"Every rant here lately starts with a quote.  Why is this happening all of a sudden?"
                          -Eater of Clowns

"Sometimes it's several quotes, too.  It really seems to be only a recent thing."
                          -Eater of Clowns

Because quotes are awesome, that's why.

That's my new fucking sig that is. Just see if it isn't!

Quote from: Cain on October 24, 2009, 11:11:05 PM
Meta-self-references will get you everywhere in this world.

:lulz:
#4522
I once saw an old dog.  He was fourteen and on the medium-large side, so old for this size.  He'd get tired on walks within a half hour.

Once I saw this old dog poop.  He had this sort of poop straddle where his lower half was entirely tensed up to deal with this stubborn piece of shit; that half would wobble back and forth while his front paws would try to walk normally to dislodge the offending fecal chunk.

We are all that old dog now, and the Nigel-Cain feud is that persistent turd refusing to drop quietly onto the leaf-strewn autumn path.   :cry:
#4523
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Re: Film Flam
October 24, 2009, 12:34:06 AM
Quote from: Nigel on October 24, 2009, 12:26:07 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 23, 2009, 08:27:05 PM
And for this post, whenever I click on updated topics I'm going to see this trainwreck of a thread.

Is it ruining your life yet? Since this thread started I haven't been able to work, my sweetheart got sick, his friend died, my house lost $115,000 in equity, and my ex is suing me.  :x

It's true.  My girlfriend and I have been fighting since I posted here, and the fact that I haven't had an erection since that post can only lead me to believe I'm impotent.  Not having pooped since then means I might be constipated as well.
#4524
Or Kill Me / Re: Goth Counterculture: A disappointment.
October 23, 2009, 10:29:26 PM
Quote from: Brotep on October 23, 2009, 10:02:39 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 23, 2009, 05:42:40 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 23, 2009, 12:31:21 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 22, 2009, 11:09:54 PM
Quote from: JohNyx on October 22, 2009, 11:08:53 PM

TGRR asked me what i think its supposed to be, not what it is or was.


Point.  I could have worded that better.

E-prime?   :)

I will kill you and eat you.

Be warned, whoever eats the eater of clowns becomes the new eater of clowns.  It has always been this way.

I gained my title viciously, with treachery, and a delicious cabernet.
#4525
Or Kill Me / Optimists: A Call to Arms
October 23, 2009, 10:26:18 PM
"Every rant here lately starts with a quote.  Why is this happening all of a sudden?"
                          -Eater of Clowns

"Sometimes it's several quotes, too.  It really seems to be only a recent thing."
                          -Eater of Clowns

I consider myself an optimist.  A cynic, possibly paradoxically, but never pessimistic.  Cautiously, I approach situations just thinking everything is going to turn out all right.

Does this sound naive?  That's because optimism is so frequently defined by its naivety.  Phrases like happy-go-lucky spring to mind and we imagine this pathetic, exuberant creature charging headfirst into a wall of shit with a dumb smile.  This doesn't need to be the case.  Optimists, this is our call to action.  It's time to walk confidently up to that shit-wall and declare "I bet I can get around this motherfucker and it won't be all that shitty."

One problem is that pessimists, traditionally, tend to have their wits about them.  They can look at the The Shitwall and say "It stretches on for miles in both directions.  It's all gloopy so if you try to dig through, it'll collapse on you.  Also there seems to be peanuts in it and it smells bad."  All of these are valid points, as is the idea that we can all just find another place to go and another challenge to undertake.  But for some of these people, every challenge is insurmountable, every effort deadly and every minutiae a threat.  The human race might as well cower in the shadow of every disease, predator, storm, and human race that happens its way.

That is, of course, not the majority of pessimists, like the majority of optimists aren't the headlong into The Great Shitwall of Shitville type.  So why let ourselves be portrayed in the extreme?  Because it doesn't matter because everything will turn out okay?  Fuck that.  It does matter and things will be okay because we'll fucking make it okay, and we're not going to be stupid about it.  And we'll very likely fail and get all shitty, but so what?  Better that than give up.  You see, Shitula, Duke of Shitville, Home of The Great Shitwall wants you to think all your efforts will come to nothing, that you'll have died horribly and young and horribly young having never achieved anything.  Well flip him the finger and show him that even if he's right, you had a goddamn blast doing it, and that makes it just fine by you.

Optimists, fight on, keep your wits about you, and have a nice day.

-EoC
#4526
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Re: 70's Comedy
October 23, 2009, 08:53:34 PM
George Carlin.  The way the guy dissected language and how it reflects our cultural imperfections is something we need desperately.  There was this bit he did about how our fear of language was reflected in how shell shock turned into battle fatigue turned into post-traumatic stress disorder.  He had his bits of shock humor but when he pulled apart the country's values is when he was at his best.  Seeing him live was one of the greatest things I've ever done, EVER.
#4527
I might honestly prefer this model.  It means the Earth arrived, partied, and died young.
#4528
If you're going to jump off a bridge, make it that stupid Fall River one and make it look like it was because of those goddamn barriers they haven't moved in 6 fucking years.

Or you could just float over to NB and I'll buy you a beer, because, well, this shit sucks.

Quote from: LMNO on October 23, 2009, 08:29:52 PM


Have you ever listened to the Johnny Cash cover?  It's Rick Rubin produced and backed up by Fiona Apple.  Another FUCK YES on an entire FUCK YES album.
#4529
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Re: Film Flam
October 23, 2009, 08:27:05 PM
Quote from: fictionpuss on October 23, 2009, 08:22:20 PM

Watch those films again, every scene is the most contrived and wrung out after school special melodrama played for maximum impact by someone who just wants to make their audience suffer. There is a certain beauty and craftsmanship to the way he portrays his psychosis, but there is no point to it, no dramatic validation. It's just cynical manipulation of an audience too stupid to realise that just because something makes you feel cold and empty, that doesn't make it art. Fuck him. He's the cinematic equivalent of Coldplay. (based upon the two films of his I've seen)

All bolded text can apply to the Coen brothers and that's what most argue make them good directors.


And for this post, whenever I click on updated topics I'm going to see this trainwreck of a thread.
#4530
Or Kill Me / Re: Goth Counterculture: A disappointment.
October 23, 2009, 12:31:21 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 22, 2009, 11:09:54 PM
Quote from: JohNyx on October 22, 2009, 11:08:53 PM

TGRR asked me what i think its supposed to be, not what it is or was.


Point.  I could have worded that better.

E-prime?   :)