I was glad one of the first comments on that piece was from a guy who is now medicated for his bipolar disorder and can actually speak to how it makes life better....
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Nov 17, 2011 9:16:13 am PST #7272 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jessica - Nov 17, 2011 9:19:00 am PST #7273 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I want to have the kind of life where waiting a few weeks for a $22k check is "begging for table scraps like a bitch"
But the best part had to be this one right at the beginning:
Your company is stuck in the year 1850 or whatever, when ships came from England with books to sell to the New World.
Your company (and indeed, whole industry) is stuck in slavery-era thinking.
1850 or whatever! Slavery! WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THOSE POOR ENSLAVED BOOKS!
Allyson - Nov 17, 2011 9:19:40 am PST #7274 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I read the "About" on his blog, and he apparently is trying to eliminate sleep from his schedule. Good luck with that.
It's like reading someone on a cocaine binge.
ETA: Jessica, I haven't unpacked the rage yet at comparing himself to a slave.
Next up! S&S...SS? YES. MY 22K ADVANCE BEING LATE IS JUST LIKE WAITING IN LINE TO BE PUT INTO THE OVENS !@!#$#
Amy - Nov 17, 2011 9:23:36 am PST #7275 of 30001
Because books.
I had to laugh at the six weeks. You think that's long? Stick around, bud.
Toddson - Nov 17, 2011 9:24:21 am PST #7276 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Well, as we always say - hookers and blow!
Strix - Nov 17, 2011 9:24:39 am PST #7277 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, so WROD. (Wow, I haven't used that one in a while.)
Yeah, I'll wait "like a bitch" for 22K. 6.5 whole weeks! Why, I've waited 52 WEEKS for that.
Whiner.
Toddson - Nov 17, 2011 9:29:27 am PST #7278 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Years ago I read a book in which the main character is a writer. She writes "serious" pieces but writes series romances to pay the bills. In one scene she looks through her mail and finds a check for a piece in a serious magazine; it took her a long time to research and write it and then make revisions. The check is for a fairly small amount and took something like six months for them to send it. Another envelope has a check for a good deal more for a romance. It was one written very much to formula and she cranked it out in a short while and the publisher sent it fairly soon after she submitted the manuscript.
§ ita § - Nov 17, 2011 9:30:39 am PST #7279 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He sounds like this guy: >[link]Good god, that post uses hock as a verb twice. It's blistering my eyeballs.
My sister bought me this out of nowhere. I didn't even know she knew thinkgeek was a thing. So I'm wearing it today along with these and feeling quite cross-pollinatedly geeky.
erikaj - Nov 17, 2011 9:37:41 am PST #7280 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
I hope his next agent is Ari.(Actually not...he can make your ass *rich*) But I hope he acts like Ari. "I just dropped you as a client, you short-sighted fuckface. You are HISTORY. Write me a poem about *that*
Strix - Nov 17, 2011 9:38:07 am PST #7281 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
ita !, that reminds me...oops, can't say anything. D LURKS.
Someday, he'll say something. Maybe.