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rom a popular 18th century parlor game he learned from antoinette faure and the green grass grows all around all around if you re really curious about all this then you re probably the sort of person the article in the new yorker was written for and you should probably go read it most folks though are primarily interested in the questionnaire the actual ten questions themselves some of the questions are pedestrian some are silly some are insightful but it was always interesting to see how various actors directors writers would answer them obviously i m going to give the questions and my own answers but i m genuinely curious to see how other folks would answer them as well so here we go what is your favorite word ownself it s a southernism i think at least i ve never heard anybody outside of the deep south use it in the same way as southern folk do it means yourself or myself of course but in a more deeply personal and possessive sort of way saying my ownself or your ownself emphasizes the ownership of whatever the hell you re talking about for example saying i ll do it myself doesn t carry the same level of investment or commitment as i ll do it my ownself which is less invested than i ll do it my own damn self what is your least favorite word any hateful slur kike nigger faggot pick one what turns you on smart people what turns you off willfully stupid people you know folks who are capable of learning and understanding but either can t be bothered to learn or refuse to learn because it would make them doubt something they believed willfully stupid people can fuck right off what sound or noise do you love water rippling around stones what sound or noise do you hate leaf blowers i fucking hate leaf blowers what is your favorite curse word i don t really have a favorite i m sort of partial to cocksucker though it s not an expression i use i like it because it was used beautifully and creatively in the hbo series deadwood hbo s the wire did something similar with motherfucker but the wire s motherfucker lacked the deep profound sense of commitment to obscenity that we saw in deadwood s cocksucker what profession other than your own would you like to attempt architect maybe or investigative epidemiologist what profession would you not like to do anything to do with accounting if heaven exists what would you like to hear god say when you arrive at the pearly gates i always have trouble with this premise it s like saying if you had your own personal dragon what would you do with it but you have to play the game by the rules so if heaven existed and if there was a god waiting to greet me i guess i d like to hear her say hi come on in we have an extensive library and there are no leaf blowers so that s me what about you posted in confessional crap stuff i think about things i learned from television 20 replies hillary fbi scandal omfg you guys posted on july 6 2016 by greg 4 hillary is not going to prison you guys who could have predicted this nobody could have predicted this this was totally unpredictable nostradamus on his best day could not have predicted this well okay anybody who read actual news accounts of the email scandal rather than all the opinion pieces could have predicted it the facts are surprisingly clear hillary clinton became secretary of state in 2009 and almost immediately asked for a secure phone like the one the national security agency provided for president obama the nsa said no clinton and her staff said oh c mon let me have a secure phone the nsa said nope sorry the clinton folks said okay how about if you just give a few high level staff a waiver like you did for condi rice and her staff the nsa said yeah no we don t do that anymore the clinton folks got a face to face meeting with seven senior state department staffers with five nsa security experts and said guys we really need a secure phone system the nsa said what you guys are still here okay you can give hillary one of these sectera edge the clinton folks said are you fucking kidding me the nsa said sure it s clunky and weighs almost a pound and yeah it s so awkward our own it techs think it s difficult to use oh and the trusted display the one you have to use for secure communications is really really really tiny also it runs on windows ce which is a wee bit slow because the operating system was already 13 years old in 2009 and by the way the state department will have to buy and install a whole new secure server infrastructure in order to actually use it the clinton folks said yeah i don t think so here s a question have you ever tried to cook a new dish while reading the recipe it s a fucking nightmare you re trying to caramelize the onions while slicing up the peppers and you know you bought mexican oregano recently where the hell is it it s chaos now try to master a new communications device that has a notoriously steep technological learning curve while conducting negotiations with world leaders in crisis situations and simultaneously maintaining timely sensitive international communication you re going to end up scorching some onions and remember this hillary clinton is a grandma did you ever have to help your grandma with technology you know what that s like this is not to excuse clinton she chose convenience over security and also what the hell is that pin she s wearing looks like some sort of star wars medal her reasons for choosing convenience may be understandable and her decision might have been naive at the beginning but jeebus krush at some point she and her staff had to realize they were taking ridiculous risks with security what she did was stupid and probably negligent but it didn t rise to the level of criminality so no anybody who d paid attention to the actual facts of the situation couldn t have been surprised by the fbi s findings still a lot of folks are upset that hillary wasn t charged with a crime okay maybe upset isn t the most accurate term let s go with livid a lot of people are livid no not emotional enough a lot of people are fucking furious there we go a lot of people are fucking furious at the fbi at james comey at the entire government of these united states of america and at the whole combustible universe the folks who are most upset conservatives of course but also the bernie or bust folks yesterday i spent a bit of time scanning the reactions of those two groups the right wing cranks at freerepublic and the facebook page for the people for bernie sanders so here s a little game i took some verbatim comments from each group and i ve included them below you try to guess which quote came from which group yesterday we celebrated our independence from a tyrannical government today we were reminded that those in charge are above the law nice after today i can carelees how the corrupt fbi director can or cannot say he is a sell out this is the last straw we will not accept that woman for president absolutely positively not under any circumstances any idiot can see that the fix is in and this whole damned thing stinks to high heaven the united states of corruption no indictment no justice that fbi ruling was a joke it s obvious the rules don t apply to hillary clinton no punishment for enemies getting a hold of top secret information because of you no punishment for lying under oath it s so obvious the system is rigged for her hillary needs to go to court and be tried by the people how about outrageous scandalous corrupt beyond belief the entire upper echelon of our government is composed of oath breaking traitors comey goes through the facts finds the evidence shows her lies says that top secret information was left unprotected and then says not to prosecute the follow through was not congruent with the set up she s guilty of negligence she put top secret information at risk which was illegal they could easily bring charges and who cares if clinton has a ton of lawyers to fight it she did this crime as comey stated and doesn t deserve the presidency is there not one honest person in this government i am beginning to think no goodbye america if hillary is elected this november then there is no doubt this country is over can t have a racist or corrupt wall street whore as president shillary for prison because of hillary e mails she can be blackmailed as president from our enemies who have already hacked her server it s not a very fair game because i don t recall which comments are from which group i deliberately mixed them up but the level of vitriol against hillary is pretty much the same from both groups here s the thing well the thing as i see it most of the scandals directed at hillary clinton and her husband are bullshit republicans have investigated the shit out of any rumor or suspicion that touched the clintons in any way seriously back in 1997 when bill was still in office republicans launched an investigation into the clintons christmas card list i am not making this up they held hearing for days they called more than thirty witnesses to testify under oath demanded 40 000 documents about the christmas card list nothing came of it of course i don t even remember what the hell the point was but it allowed republicans to spend a month of so on television talking about yet another clinton scandal that was being investigated by congress you spend a quarter of a century launching bullshit investigations and claiming hillary is the devil some proportion of the public is eventually going to start believing there must be horns or a forked tail hidden away somewhere this email business is one of the few incidents grounded in actual behavior that merits actual criticism the criticism has been massively amplified and exaggerated but this time some measure of it is deserved that doesn t make it criminal the fbi made the right call and the furor over the fbi decision is less about national security than it is about twenty five years of raw partisan vilification and the willingness of some segments of the public to believe bullshit just because it s repeated often and can you guess what the republicans are going to do in response to this i ll bet you can go ahead you guys take a guess right good guess they re going to hold investigative hearings to find out if the fbi is part of the conspiracy to keep hillary out of prison watch the news hear all about the new hillary fbi scandal they should be able to keep oh let s call it fbi gate in the news cycle until the election in early november stay tuned for clinton voter fraud gate due to be released in mid november posted in current events inexplicable shit politics 4 replies nobody cares posted on july 1 2016 by greg 15 sometimes i feel like i should just give up one of my writing students recently said that in fact i hear that with distressing regularity from my students as an aside it still occasionally strikes me as improbable that i ve become a person who has students that statement is almost never posed as a question but the question is always there as a not very subtle subtext should i just give up and that question always masks another question which is generally phrased as another statement i m never going to be good enough to get published am i the question at the heart of all this is an awkward question it requires a graceful answer it also requires an honest answer as a person who has students it s my experience that honesty and grace don t always dovetail together the graceful response is easy no of course you shouldn t give up if you approach your writing with diligence and sincerity you can become good enough to get published there s some measure of truth in that if you work hard at any craft writing cabinetry weaving brick laying pottery you can improve most of my students have the capacity to be good enough to get published but most won t that s the honest answer hard work doesn t guarantee mastery and mastery doesn t guarantee success the unwelcome truth is that while most of my students have the capacity to improve relatively few will actually fulfill that capacity they either lack the necessary persistence or are prevented by circumstance from achieving it and even whose who are good enough may still not be good enough even if they produce excellent work the first publisher to read it may reject it and so might the second and third and the fourth and and and nobody cares about your zombie novel instead of responding directly to my student i asked a question what matters most to you writing a good story or getting published everybody wants both of course and logically one should follow the other if you write a good story it s got a better chance of getting published but knowing which of those matters most changes your approach if getting published matters most then you let the marketplace direct the work if the marketplace is hot for zombies then you write zombies some folks will sneer at that but there s nothing wrong with it it s a professional approach getting paid for your work is a wonderful thing and the best way to get paid is to give the market what it wants and down at the bone a good zombie story is first and foremost a good story just with zombies if it s the writing itself that matters most then your approach is different and the reward is different in that case story takes precedence over the marketplace you might still write a story about zombies but it s the story that s driving the process not the zombies and i m going to repeat myself down at the bone a good zombie story is first and foremost a good story it s an issue of whether you re writing a good zombie story or a good story that has zombies in it in either case it s got to be a good story a few days after my chat with the student i came across this video by ted forbes you should watch it not right now necessarily because c mon i want you to keep reading this don t i but at some point take a few minutes and watch it it s called nobody cares about your photography i don t know ted forbes we re friends on facebook which just about the most tenuous sort of human connection possible i don t think i ve ever exchanged a word with him but i watch his art of photography videos i don t always care about the subject matter but it s always worthwhile to listen to anybody who s passionate about something talk intelligently about it i m pretty confident that if you listened to somebody talk passionately and with intelligence about lawn bowling you d learn something you could use in writing or in photography forbes says nobody cares about your photography and he s basically right in the same way nobody cares about your writing there are so many writers out there and so many photographers or lawn bowlers that it s easy for you as an individual to be ignored and if you re proficient enough to care about your work and intelligent enough to wonder about your place you ll almost certainly at some point wonder if you should just give up forbes i think makes two important related points he says no m...