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As you can see by my previous post, or for those of you reading in reverse chronological order, the next post, I have made a separate post of my FIFTY BOOK CHALLENGE list which I will just update every time I finish a book rather than reposting the list every so often.

Good idea, methinks. Jacquelyn's idea. I stole it. Smart girl.

Jacquelyn is gone. To Vermont. She'll be back for a few hours on the 18th and then she's off again to Indiana for a research trip until the 24th or so. All in all, she'll be gone for about three weeks.

Why are you looking at me like that? I miss her, so what? You wanna fight about it?!

We kissed goodbye as she boarded a VanGalder bus headed for Chicago's Midway airport in a sleep-deprived blurry early morning.

As far as keeping myself busy while she's gone, I had the initial intention of starting a novel, but more and more ideas are coming to me about it every day now. It's solidifying in my mind in a way I've never experienced. Each day it expands and grows and I worry I should be keeping notes, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

Perhaps I'll write a short story just to be practical. Maybe I'll have it be an audience participation piece. You offer up three characters, names, characteristics, likes dislikes and maybe a setting and I'll tackle it. Don't be a hog now, don't suggest the whole story, just a thing or two. Let everyone have a turn.

Speaking of which, when you were trick-or-treating as a kid 1) did you ever do the trick part for those who didn't cough up the treats? and 2) when those people left out the bowls that said "Just Take One!" did you ever 'just take one'?

Watched the film version of The World According to Garp. Because watching the book is boring unless you're turning the pages. John Lithgow plays a good tranny. I still can't get Robin-Williams-the-coke-fiend out of my head, so it was hard to imagine him as a young kid. He looked old even then. Read the book, it was so much better.

I also watched The Aristocrats. Hilarious if you're not offended by the most obscene humor you will ever hear. I suppose if I were going to tell this joke, I might tell it like this:

A man walks into a talent agent's office, and says, "We're a family act, and we'd like you to represent us."

The agent says, "Sorry, I don't represent family acts. They're a little too old-fashioned."

The man says, "But, this is really special."

The agent says, "Okay, well what's the act?"

He replies, "Ok, I come out on stage dressed as Voltron.  My wife drops down from the ceiling on a trapeze and starts doing a sexy striptease to the Fish Heads by Tiny Tim while I do cartwheels back and forth across the stage."

The agent looks uncomfortable, but the man continues, "Once my wife is naked, our five year old son Billy comes out in a diaper, crying his eyes out.  My wife scoops him up and starts breastfeeding him.  Then our teenage daughter Ruth comes out on stage pushing a wheel barrel full of dog food, screaming 'PUPPY! IT'S TIME TO EAT!  Then our St. Bernard, Doofus, drops down from the ceiling and lands on her head."

The man smiles as he recalls, "Get this, her head, it goes up the dog's ass!  Yes it does!  Then Voltron, that's me, who has been doing minor acrobatics the whole time, comes to the rescue, but I trip over my breastfeeding wife and my dick gets caught in her nose!  I try to pull it out, but it just jams further in and it goes through her nasal cavity and out her mouth.  She bites down in surprise and I scream and start pulling away, spinning in a circle, but she's not letting go, so my breastfeeding wife, holding our son Billy is flying through the air attached to my dick as I spin in circles!"

"The dog is so frightened by this, he starts pissing everywhere.  I slip and fall, knocking over Ruth and the dog, so  me, the wife and Billy and Ruth and the dog all come tumbling in a heap on the stage.  Billy gets up and hops on the dog, which, of course, Ruth's head is still stuck in it's ass, and starts riding it around the stage, yelling 'Giddiyup, horsy!' while dragging Ruth behind them."

"My wife unlaces my penis from her nasal and throat cavities and I immediately hop onto the family train, shoving my bent and wobbly penis in my trailing daughter's cunt.  I'm going to town, fucking her while Doofus drags us all around the stage.  My wife blows a whistle and holds out her hand like a traffic cop.  We come to a stop and pull Ruth's head out of the dog's ass and realize she isn't breathing, that she is in fact dead."

"We all look horrified and ashamed and start crying, screaming about the injustice of it all.  Just then, get this, JESUS!  Yes, the Son of God, our Lord himself comes down from the ceiling and brings her back to life then cums on her face!"

He looks at the agent and says, "Well, that's the act. What do you think?"

The agent just sits in silence for a long time. Finally, he manages, "That's a hell of an act. What do you call yourselves?"

"The Aristocrats!"

Date: 2006-06-09 02:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiwikat.livejournal.com
i hated that movie so much. i'm sorry but i couldn't get past paragraph two of your version. the movie just pissed me off way too much.

any day you feel like hanging out just say the word. being lonely can get old, and we have a charcoal grill suitable for roasting the carcasses of dead animals.

Date: 2006-06-09 02:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
Not a fan of dirty humor, huh?

Date: 2006-06-09 03:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiwikat.livejournal.com
i ADORE dirty humor... when there's a point. i love dead babies jokes and stuff like that, i just don't find wallowing in ick to be particularly funny.

it's nothing against YOU, it's something against the aristocrats. i found the movie to be utterly boring. how many different ways can you be crass?

Date: 2006-06-09 03:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
I found it to be a test of perspectives. The fact that I could watch over an hour of the most obscene filth from the best comedans in the business and then still totally lose it, laughing so hard I wa crying when Cartman told it, man, that's some good shit.

Date: 2006-06-09 03:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiwikat.livejournal.com
i didn't stay in it long enough to see cartman. i should go find that on youtube.

cartman is my kind of crass humor. he and mr garrison are my favorites.

Date: 2006-06-09 03:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
TADAH! (http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=724)

Date: 2006-06-09 03:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiwikat.livejournal.com
this comment is coming across as too negative.

i like a dirty joke as much as anyone else, aristocrats was just TOO MUCH. it was like eating a low-quality sheet cake the size of a matress. not fun.

Date: 2006-06-09 03:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiwikat.livejournal.com
my comment, not your comment.

shit, i'm like terrified i'm going to offend you.

Date: 2006-06-09 03:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
You forget, I cannot be offended. Especially when it comes to opinions about what one likes in their entertainment. I might not understand, but that's cool. Like the people who don't like Harry Potter. I mean, come on, what's not to like?!?!

Date: 2006-06-09 03:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiwikat.livejournal.com
well not liking harry potter is just insane. seriously.

Date: 2006-06-09 03:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rejectcarp.livejournal.com
hehe... yeah.

Date: 2006-06-09 03:16 am (UTC)

Date: 2006-06-09 03:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiwikat.livejournal.com
AND

when i was a kid i wasn't allowed to go trick or treating past age 5 because my parents decided it was evil. i vaguely remember not taking more than one from the buckets because my parents were always walking with me and i didn't want to get in trouble.

Date: 2006-06-09 03:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
I remember being able to go out at night and without parent supervision! Of course I lived in the middle of nowhere and my parents were lazy :P

Date: 2006-06-09 03:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiwikat.livejournal.com
i lived in one of those terrified-of-razors-in-the-snickers suburban towns where we could run around at night (if we stayed on our own cul-de-sac or told mom when we were leaving for the park) whenever we wanted EXCEPT HALLOWEEN.

Date: 2006-06-09 03:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
Because they didn't want you to have drunken, sugar&razor-fueled orgies with pagans. DUH!

Date: 2006-06-09 03:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gutzilla.livejournal.com
I'd never heard of this film but it sounds really interesting! There are some people I'd be really interested in seeing telling it.

Date: 2006-06-10 06:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
It's great! Get it now!

starting a novel

Date: 2006-06-09 03:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] decemberthirty.livejournal.com
Keep notes! Seriously, I never would have been able to write my book without the notebook where I jotted down every thought I had about it--the notes were invaluable when I was six months into it and totally overwhelmed by the scope of the project.

Re: starting a novel

Date: 2006-06-10 06:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
I think I will for this one. It's much more complex and I want to try planning a book this time.

My first book was co/written in exquisite corpse style, and all improvised on the spot, so there were no notes to take.

Oddly, everything came together perfectly and very little structure-revision was needed.

Date: 2006-06-09 03:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghostwes.livejournal.com
*mimes clapping*

Date: 2006-06-10 06:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
I finally got to see what I made an icon of so long ago!

Date: 2006-06-10 06:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghostwes.livejournal.com
I've actually used it a lot. Surprised you hadn't seen it since.

Thanks again for making it!

Date: 2006-06-10 06:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
I've seen it here and there, but never really thought much of it until I saw the movie :) You're quite welcome BTW.

Date: 2006-06-10 07:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghostwes.livejournal.com
Oh, I misread what you wrote above. I thought you meant that you hadn't seen me using the icon that you had made for me. Now I get ya.

Wasn't the mime the best part of the film?

Date: 2006-06-10 07:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
It was pretty funny, but I really lost it during Cartman's rendition :D

Date: 2006-06-09 04:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anubis75.livejournal.com
I know where you're comming from. My new job has me training for 7 weeks in Ventura which is far enough away for them to put me up in a hotel. At least I get to see them on weekends.

Date: 2006-06-10 06:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
Eeek, that's got to be hard. I've had breif periods where I didn't get to see Ethan except on weekends because of school and that was practically unbearable.

May Jupiter grant you some expansive strength and keep your moons in orbit :)

Date: 2006-06-09 11:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 3starsinmyeyes.livejournal.com
2) when those people left out the bowls that said "Just Take One!" did you ever 'just take one'?

haha yeah i did, i actually yelled at a girl in my neighborhood because she was grabbing handfulls and shoving them in her bag, i made her put two handfulls of candy from her bag back in the bowl, and her mom yelled at me.... go figure

I hope Jaqui has a good time in Vermont, you try not to get to lonely, i'm always around on messenger if you need someone to talk to

Date: 2006-06-10 06:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
I don't ever remember my parents going with us.

Date: 2006-06-09 03:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarahdipity418.livejournal.com
OMG! I JUST finished reading The World According to Garp!
How was the movie as a post book experience? Did you find it worth watching? I found it to be one of those books I was sad to finish. I kind of miss being able to read about Garp for about an hour or so a day after so long.

Now I'm reading Rabbit Redux but I just started and am having a little bit of trouble getting into it. I can't seem to make it more than a couple pages without thinking about Garp.

Date: 2006-06-10 06:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
Have you read A Prayer for Owen Meany? It's even better than Garp.

The Garp movie was good, but not as good as the book. A lot of stuff had to be left out, of course, so a lot of the more gritty emotional areas of the book were sort of glossed over and I think I would have been confused if I hadn't read the book first, but then, maybe it would have been more suspenseful if I hadn't :P

Date: 2006-06-09 10:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tekelili.livejournal.com
Hahahaha, I just recently watched the "Aristocrats" dvd myself, and, your version of the joke is a fabulous one, couldn't stop reading until the end, HAD to know where you took it next. =D Wonderful job.

Date: 2006-06-10 05:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
Thanks! I almost didn't put in any sexual stuff because that's, well, not my usual comedic shtick, but I felt that I must uphold the traditions and be raunchy as hell, so I ended up with a nice blend, I felt :)

Date: 2006-06-11 04:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] matt120.livejournal.com
BEATING POLICEMEN??? FUCK YEAH!!!!!

Don't get me started.

Date: 2006-06-11 04:46 am (UTC)

Date: 2006-06-11 11:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oxy-irony.livejournal.com
That is the most vile thing I have possibly ever read. I sat here holding my laughter in the entire time, only because while being amused, I was incredibly nauseated. Weird. *Shudders* Fantastic last sentence, though.

Date: 2006-06-12 04:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
Oh my god, mine isn't even close to the worst in that movie. Mine is ficking DISNEY compared to most of the tellings in that movie!

Date: 2006-06-13 12:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oxy-irony.livejournal.com
Remind me to never watch that, then.

Date: 2006-06-13 12:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
Ok, never watch that then. One of the worst was when Cartman tells it (http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=724).

Date: 2006-06-13 03:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oxy-irony.livejournal.com
Ok, never watch that then

Thanks. *Is exactly the same*

Niiiiiice, Cartman. Nice. He gets so into it!

Date: 2006-06-14 05:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jackshoegazer.livejournal.com
"I don't get it."

"Me either."

HAHAHA!!

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