Archive for November, 2009

  • The Fitness Club: My Review

    The Fitness Club: My Review

    November 15th, 2009 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 11 Comments

    It smells like school. More specifically, it  smells like gym class. That mix of sweat, rubber, and bleach. Lots of bleach. So much bleach, it withers the nose hairs — stay in there too long, and the polyester in your gym shorts will start to peel and blister, as if held just away from a [...]

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  • Specimens of Hilarity: Bruce McCulloch

    Specimens of Hilarity: Bruce McCulloch

    November 14th, 2009 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 2 Comments

    Thesis: Life is too crazy and too shitty to not laugh. Humor is a cornerstone of who I am. I love the funny. I love making the funny. Without the funny, we’re just a ceaseless army of surly automatons. Faceless and grim. I’m not saying the world doesn’t have room for seriousness. If all we [...]

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  • Souls For The Soulless: Advice On Characters In Fiction

    Souls For The Soulless: Advice On Characters In Fiction

    November 13th, 2009 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 18 Comments

    Snap, snap. Hey. You. Codpiece Johnson demands your attention. Earlier, I wrote a post about how (not!) to write characters. In such posts I aim for The Funny, but also hope to loosely circumnavigate some actual advice. Imagine that I’m trying to define truth through white space: smearing my feces on all of the wall [...]

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  • Painting With Shotguns XI: “Computah Won’ Boot” Edition

    Painting With Shotguns XI: “Computah Won’ Boot” Edition

    November 12th, 2009 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 9 Comments

    Well, goddamn you, sneaky Windows gremlins. They creep in during the wee hours of the night and update my computer with their Windows Update nonsense, but apparently in the process get their sticky jam-hands and toffee-fingers all over everything, thus stopping my computer from actually booting. Good times! Thanks, Windows Update. Now I have to [...]

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  • Things That Are Surprisingly Not Overrated

    Things That Are Surprisingly Not Overrated

    November 11th, 2009 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 13 Comments

    I think it’s time to ejaculate some positivity into this here blog. I’m far too negative. I have love to give. And you’re going to take my love whether you like it or not. Earlier, I wrote of things that are quite plainly overrated, and now, it’s time to reverse course. Siddown. Have some chai. [...]

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