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et eyes on johnny come home robert spalding 2012 posted in fiction fragments of a decaying world writing tagged fiction fragment of a decaying world writing leave a comment fragments of a decaying world an introduction posted on september 19 2012 by robspalding this is a little introduction to the post that follows this fragments of a decaying world is a series of very short short and not short at all stories and pieces that detail the end of a world one that is nothing like ours the plan is for 80 thousand words or 80 stories whichever turns out to be more this is a project that i will be coming back to as and when i feel like it and until i have finished them all most of them will not be seen by most people however i do plan t post the occasional one up on this blog and if i am really proud of any i might try sending them out for publication elsewhere but for the most part this will be the only place to get a sneak peak at this series i would think it won t be done for years but whenever a new one pops up it will be because i just decided to no big reasons just a feeling that it was time for a new fragment to be seen so here we go posted in fiction fragments of a decaying world ramble tagged fiction fragment of a decaying world writing leave a comment geek culture clash or how i ended up in a fight for wil wheaton s honour posted on june 20 2012 by robspalding i haven t told any stories here for quite some time so how about i tell you one i ve been meaning to ever since i started this blog this story is mostly about the first time i ever encountered something i would come to embrace geek culture and the love of that special something you watch or read at the time i thought what happened was ridiculous and i still do to some extent but i now get the passion behind it now i m going to ramble diverge from the path and generally meander as we go why because the essence of the story is quite brief but the flavour of it is why i remember it it happened when i was about nine or ten it was certainly before i started secondary school which i did just after my twelfth birthday as a family we had gone on holiday to a caravan park somewhere in dorseti think we had our own caravan and while i see them now and think how would i fit in that at that time i was small enough that sharing with my mum dad and brother didn t seem exceptionally cramped i know the camp was by the sea there was a winding path down something really steep right to the beach in my mind the path was on the edge of a cliff but i suspect it was just a large hill it was probably a haven site we liked going to them static caravans in one place ones people brought with them elsewhere and most importantly a kid s club i say most important because if there had been no organised kid s entertainment i wouldn t be telling this story i also wouldn t have ended up in a ridiculous fancy dress costume for a competition that i think i was the only one who entered can t remember what the theme might have been but my costume was a bin liner over my head with empty crisp and chocolate wrappers attached to it i ended up walking around the whole site dressed like that and yet amazingly it s not why i got into a fight now i watched a lot of tv as a kid still do to be honest i was always reading as well that s not relevant to this story directly but i feel i need to balance out my declaration of being a square eyed kid i could have been well on my way to being that stereotypical geeky kid we now all think of if not for the fact that i was sports mad as well i was a sprinter i played football as much as i could i was even drafted into my year s cricket team despite having no experience with the game because they assumed i d be able to pick it up like any other sport well i played i was not good at it but they still had me fill in a couple more times because i wasn t utterly awful either what i am trying to say is that at the age of nine or ten i had a lot of interests but none of them inspired in me the passion of the kid i am about to tell you about with my declaration of defending wil wheaton s honour in the title and the fact that this story takes place in 90 or 91 you will have probably already worked out that my first real interaction with a full on dyed in the love for his show geek was with a star trek fan i don t remember his name just that he was ginger slightly tubby and was about two years older than me we d interacted at the various activities the kid s club had done but only in passing it had been enough however that when we all sat down for a bonfire campfire barbeque thing details about what we were doing are fuzzy i remember sitting down and there being fire i m fairly certain it wasn t an arson spree but who knows i was quite happy to sit next to him and chat he was wearing a star trek t shirt original series or next gen i don t recall so that s what we started to talk about i hadn t seen the original show but i had seen the movies and i was enjoying watching the next generation now after a while it became clear to me that he knew a lot more about trek than i did the difference was huge i vaguely remembered episodes i had seen only once he could quote whole scenes and so being me i decided to mess with him when i say mess i mean lie i was making up episodes i had seen and challenging him to identify them just flat out fabrications of things that had never been in trek and yet he kept steering me back to real stories what you mean is this yeah you ve just got it a little muddled um i guess so exactly well that s this episode quite amazing in retrospect but he kept his cool the conversation was fun and we were laughing i was enjoying making him figure out real things from the utter tosh i was talking and he seemed perfectly happy to be talking about star trek with someone who seemed to like it then we moved on to favourite characters i think his was mccoy i remember him doing the i m not a i m a doctor thing several times i had never really thought about a favourite but when i did the answer was clear data i just thought data was the best thing in next generation the kid did not agree he s just a replacement spock pick someone else i will now say that these quote s are not all verbatim they are more general flavour of what was said i ll tell you when we get to the one thing he said i will always remember i struggled to think worf was good a fighter but not very funny i couldn t pick any of the women because well they were girls picard seemed too obvious then it hit me the character i kinda identified with who i would have liked to be if i was in star trek the next generation i would say it s wesley crusher he stared at me his face started to go red i began to worry he was ill then he sucked in a huge breath leaned right into my face and screamed wesley crusher is a prick that s the quote i always remember i d never had anyone but my little brother scream in my face before i was shocked no he s good because he s a kid like us but he s on a starship another deep breath closer to my face and he screamed again wesley crusher is the worst thing in the history of television it may have been in the history of star trek worst human to ever live i don t exactly recall but you get the gist now i liked wesley he seemed alright and if it had just been the first scream i would probably have let it go but the second seemed utterly unnecessary so i stepped up to the plate you re wrong he s great and you know nothing about star trek bang he slapped me in the face an actual slap could have been trying for a punch but what he delivered was a slap so i hit him in the chest at which point he grabbed me threw me to the floor and knelt over me he hit me again a couple of times i think and continued yelling about how wesley crusher was rubbish how i was stupid and a bunch of other angry stuff now he was heavier and older than me and he had me pinned down good but unlike him i imagine i got into quite a lot of fights my primary school had a field for play times which was also a football pitch at some point before this happened i had declared the centre circle the fighting circle and anyone who entered it was fair game for a bit of a fight never too vicious never bad enough that a teacher had to step in but it did give me a lot of experience in scrapping it also taught me two things i really hate getting hurt it s almost a phobia which is why i never got that good at mountain biking too scared to go properly crazy secondly it taught me that the best way to win any fight was to fight dirty so with a crazed twelve year old keeling above me i did what it is i do and kneed him square in the bollocks as he rolled off me i sprang up and ran away yelling back that wesley crusher was great and he was stupid i don t remember seeing him after that so yeah that is how i fought for wil wheaton s honour well wesley crusher s the other interesting thing that happened during that holiday which relates to my love of certain cultures now is that i ended up with my first japanese comic in the site shop they sold bundles of six american comics for a pound being a voracious reader i was into the beano and the big comic anyone else remember that but i had nowhere at home to buy american comics so i bought myself a bundle most of what was in it has long since been lost apart from two issues which blew my mind completely the first was the premiere issue of those annoying post bros an utterly mental multi dimensional violent black and white comic about psychotic siblings who at one point end up killing like a thousand copies of one of them i loved it but have had no luck since getting any more of them the second was to be the first turning point towards my enjoyment of manga and anime it was issue 13 of dark horse s translation of the legend of kamui ninjas sharks arms chopped off an eyeball popping out all rendered in a realistic compared to the beano style i was absolutely captivated i don t know how many times i re read that comic but it did start to get a bit frayed years later i was able to buy volumes 1 and 2 of the legend of kamui and see everything that had led up to that first issue i read well there you go i said i d ramble i said i would digress but now you have heard the story of how i first came to learn about the really obsessive geeks and come to find some things i could grow to love as well posted in autobiographical ramble tagged annoying post bros autobiographical geek geek culture legend of kamui ramble star trek story tng wil wheaton 1 comment double feature payback theatrical version and how i spent my summer vacation posted on may 30 2012 by robspalding here we go then this is the first in an occasional series where i recommend a double feature of films and try to explain why i think they work well together to be clear just in case anyone doesn t know a double feature is where you watch two films back to back so we re looking films that work together as a pair in one large chunk of film watching time to kick things off we re starting with two mel gibson films if any comments try to derail it into gibson is an anti semite type stuff i will borrow john scalzi s mallet of loving correction and the comments will be gone my house my rules right with that out of the way onto the films why do these two make for a good double bill it s not just the leading man although it doesn t hurt what really brings them together is the fact that they are both of a similar tone to be clear i only mean the theatrical version of payback here the director s cut is a different beast and will probably feature in another double feature later on both of them feature an unrepentant criminal who is not adverse to being violent but can also be funny and kind to those he cares for both the main characters are determined to get their money back and both go up against organisations that outnumber and should overpower them in fact when i saw how i spent my summer vacation my first thought was that the unnamed protagonist was actually porter from payback just 15 years on with gibson playing both it s not too hard a leap to make in payback porter works his way from one organisation member to the next all in an attempt to get his 70000 back he tries to charm but is willing to get violent when necessary in hismsv the unnamed gringo gets locked up in a prison town literally a town inside a prison and has to work his way through the ranks to be trusted only once he has done that can he work on getting the millions stolen from him by crooked cops back both protagonists use a mixture of guile and outright brutality to get to where they want to be if you want to compare a couple of scenes look at how porter goes from broke to well fed and dressed at the beginning payback then see the gringo go from hungry to fed after a fire at the heroin shack there s a smoothness about the actions in both something that tells you these men have been professional thieves for a long time or look at the way both of them use trickery to get bosses to be where they want them just in time for an explosion again you can see the same pattern of thoughts running through both films sidenote the umbrella gag in hismsv made me actually laugh out loud so why should you watch these as a double feature it s because they complement each other in payback you have a brash and younger thief doing what he needs to to get what s his in hismsv you have an older thief using the knowledge of years to get out from under a bad situation and back on his feet the bad guys in each are equally nasty although the main villain s plot for the boy the gringo befriends takes him over the top to be the nastiest of them all the films work well as a pair with hismsv acting as almost a quasi sequel to payback check them out i think you ll find it works tell me if you agree or not in the comments do you think there s a better film to be paired with either of them if so let me know and i ll give them a spin please don t suggest a random double feature i have a few planned but i might ask for suggestions later posted in films tagged double feature film get the gringo gibson how i spent my summer vacation payback leave a comment the lucky 7 posted on april 13 2012 by robspalding i so rarely get involved in these memes but this one appealed rules are go to page 7 or 77 or 777 if you have got that far and if so your editing process will be hell in your current manuscript go to line 7 copy down the next 7 lines or sentences and post them on your blog so here s mine from page 7 still in the prologue of my novel in progress firstly that the ration packs would stay good for a very long time the second was that torbin was going to start rotting and decaying he would make a terrible stench and there would be no way to escape it the combination of these ideas and thoughts came together in something elegant and simple he could stop torbin from decaying to putrescence by eating him there were enoug...