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Dogbutt blog post

I like that title. I only called it that because I don't have anything to say, but have decided to post a blog a day until the end of the year, for new time's sake. Plus dogbutt is one of my favorite words.

So if you're reading this, you might as well stop, 'cause I ain't sayin' nothin!

Thanks, though, kind of you to stop by. I hope to actually have something to say of some importance later, at least to me. And if I don't, it won't matter, I'll still be posting daily until New Years.

Happy Holidays!

LWIII

Question #42

Dear Wisdom Boy,

There is a boy who i have a crush and even he has a crush on me since a year.We never spoke directly and i called him a couple of times and i messed up completly by saying that i had to speak to him and shit which my friend spoke and he ignored me in school the next day when i tried to speak to him.My friends say maybe he ignorned me because even he tried to speak to me an hour ago but i didnt realize he was asking me.My friend called him up and told him that she apologises...

The top secret doo-dad

Man, it's been a long time since I blogged. I've been undercover, though, and it's hard for me to blog when I have to hold back secrets. The muse gets skittish when not given full rein, at least mine does. Giddyup, Triggette!

I'm tweeting presently as a character in a Twitter movie, spending hours a day tweeting as someone I'm not. Sure does mess with your style. Now I find myself naturally falling into the style of that character, a colorful old man. It's the old man thing that's getting to me, because I've realized a lot of the things I say are like an old man already, like lordy or dearie.

Oh lordy (in a young way).

The movie is being written and cast and beginning some filming now. We had an outline, and while the rest of the gang began work on auditions, the website, the script, and soon the filming, I started tweeting, doing exactly what the protagonist does in the film. This the the story of the story, as it's made, since we don't know the final form of the script, it being only a synopsis so far.

Don't know why I'm so set on it being a secret I'm doing this, or a partial one, since I am telling my friends it's me. So if it's okay my friends know I'm tweeting as whatshisname, why is it not okay for everybody else?

Don't know exactly. I do know I want it to be as much like that guy as possible. Positive realage, fakewise. It's great fun to write, very spontaneous and interactive. A combination of storytelling, acting, conversation,  twoetry, and doing the limbo. Did invent a language in my spare time: Twinglese. You just put 'tw' in front of everything. Ha. Twike twis, twy twonfused twiend. Tworry, twit twinda twucks, twas twa twanguage. But what the hey, sure was easy. Tolkien here I come!

Considerably easier to get under that limbo bar when it doesn't exist.

Amazing how my writing experiences have prepared me for this role. It's a lot like the letter game, except with tweets. And I do have a penchant for roleplaying, as in Wisdom Boy or Lone Wolf III.

This is nothing like writing by yourself. Much more collegial and friendly, a social forum. It's a public performance artform, based on an outline, but much of the subplot of the story is being built up by interaction with other tweeters. They say something, then the character plays off that, and so the story is the result partly of chance or fate, which is kinda cool in this postmodern era.

Hello World!

LWIII

The secret doo-dad

Man, it's been a long time since I blogged. I've been undercover, though, and it's hard for me to blog when I have to hold back secrets. The muse gets skittish when not given full rein.

I'm tweeting presently as a character in a Twitter movie, spending hours a day tweeting as someone I'm not. Sure does mess with your style. Now I find myself naturally falling into the style of that character, a colorful old man. It's the old man thing that's getting to me, because I've realized a lot of the...

My Way

Done 'er. The new site is up: The Word Doctor. Turn on your sound – unless you're at work and don't have headphones, in which case, nevermind.

This is something I'm not doing out of desperation, so it's a new thing for me. I don't really care that much if it succeeds or fails (though of course success would be preferable). That it exists is the success. I'm not making my living at it, so I don't have to be official or anything in my new role as editor. And my ego is not at risk the way it is i...

The thing about materialism

One problem I see with materialism is that it means there isn't a reason for anything. If you're sad take a pill, since the causes are immaterial. No need to query the reason, just fix the effect.

Can we not grow now?

Bummer,

LWIII

What other people think

Presently going through another psychological healing process, as the latest go-around in my everquest to fix myself (or pay others to fix me). One of the really great things about it is that it's only three sessions, based on deprogramming the amygdala. With Ray Lewis:

After the second session I had the most amazing experience: I remember sitting here in front of the computer doing something and thinking, "You know, I could give a fig for anything anybody ever thinks of me." The feeling was a...

Question #41

Dear Wisdom Boy,

Firstly Good day and hope you are well.

I can't think straight. 

My head is presently jumbled up.

My heart never gets jumbled up.

The two usually synchronise if i leave them alone to slug it out.

My question is this, at half the age of a Centurion should I stop worrying about it all and just watch soaps and start going to the Bingo?

~ Truly Hardly Mattering

Dear Hard Mat,

Thank you, I am well, as always, living the life of the mind in my imaginary penthouse with my imaginary harem...

Atheists

I'll put some words in some imaginary religious folks' mouths:

"If you don't love this book, the creator of the universe will burn you forever."

"If you agree with me, God will like you."

"Our group is the only group in history that has the truth."

"Our truth is the only truth ever possible for all time."

"Your beloved creator will torture you for eternity because you disagree with me."

Little wonder to me some people want to be atheists. Staunch religionists practically drive them screaming...

The Ding Dong Effect

After a scientific study of several long and arduous minutes, I've decided to call it The Ding Dong Effect. What happens, that is, when one does the same thing over and over, continually. This Ding Dong thing doesn't just happen to me, I figured, because other people talk about what happens when you say the same word over and over and over. It becomes meaningless, turns into a ringing in your head.

This effect is especially prevelant in computer work, amongst those called cubicle drones...