December 2011
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Free Advertising Book Bonanza!
Real men do their Spring Cleaning in December. Realer men know that true cleaning is a letting go: re-evaluating what you need versus what you only needed, what could find a better life elsewhere. Toy Story taught us this much at least.
That’s why I took a load of clothes to the charity shop this morning. However, I don’t think they’ll find Predictably Irrational as saleable....
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Story: Snip, Snip
Knives cut. Knives cut, knives cut, they cut and slice and sever and there are two of them an inch from my neck. This is what I’m thinking. Here’s what I’m saying.
“I’m in your hands, mate.” The steel resting on the collar of my shirt, silver against white.
“How about a fade?” He’s brusque and cheery, market trader-style.
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Say Yes
So, say “yes.” In fact, say “yes” as often as you can. When I was starting out in Chicago, doing improvisational theatre with Second City and other places, there was really only one rule I was taught about improv. That was, “yes-and.” In this case, “yes-and” is a verb. To “yes-and.” I yes-and, you yes-and, he, she or it yes-ands. And yes-anding means that when you go onstage to improvise a scene...
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Stories I Want To Write #1
That night, nobody on the bridge could have mistaken the scene for any but two things: a first date, or a last.
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I cannot bear to leave facebook, so I dismantle it...
I can’t believe that peer pressure would’ve been the only thing at the time. It can’t have been - there’s plenty of peer pressure, to do all sorts of things, in the corridors and house parties and spare moments of university. I successfully waved away every drug except one: the intoxicant checking of my profile, day after day, sometimes hour after hour, to see if I popped...
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The TaleTorrent, part 2
Featuring @jnicholasgeist’s Zombie apocalypse slash night-on-the-tiles (a transatlantic special!), @simonsanders’ pen-pal to PM saga, @mananatomorrow’s cyberphilic daughter, and my experiences of chatroom courtship. Of a sort. Thanks again go to the @kinura guys for putting this up.
Oh! And a message. It went wonderfully well, and many people asked if there would be another one...
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The TaleTorrent, part 1
scroll right, apparently. Part One features @BetaRish and @mndtrythnkng’s ultimate answer to Facebook’s “What’s on your mind?”, @katylindemann’s True Confessions Of A Teenage Weblogger, @documentally’s 999-style car crash reenactment, and @claireburge’s paean to the gods of Serendipity.