| Reading the Entrails |
[09 Mar 2012|05:54pm] |
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A year or so ago, I read the Hunger Games trilogy, on breathless and emphatic recommendation from a friend. I was thoroughly impressed, and figured I'd blog about it, but at around that time chronic illness and assorted familiar crises collapsed my will to type stuff, along with the odd traumatic experience getting in the way. Also, I wanted to put it on my other blog, but never did figure out a way to spoiler-proof the post. So, in the spirit of Ozymandias, it's now too late for the plan we wanted, so here goes a post, amended for the delay.
( Hips, Lips, Tits, Power. Spoilers, primarily for the first book. Also, THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE! )
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| The snow is soft, over a thin sheet of ice. |
[21 Jan 2012|01:41am] |
From here, I can drive the airport in 30 minutes.
I can get to a hotel in 10.
I have a neighbor who is likely an insomniac, and I could get there in seconds.
There's a gym downstairs with soft mats, and I'm pretty sure my keycard can get me in at any time.
There's a pool table in the other building, but my card won't work until morning.
There's water.
And air.
And energy.
It's warm in Florida.
It's warm in Florida.
It's warm in Florida.
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| Because I had to post it somewhere. |
[04 Mar 2011|07:59pm] |
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“I am on a drug. It’s called Peter Edward Rauch. If you try it once, you will flay. Your liver will melt off, and your brother and sister-in-law will poke over your scratched body … I’m tired of pretending like I’m not effluvial—a total freaking breast masseur from Jupiter. I’ve got capybara blood, Hermes DNA! … They picked a fight with a manticore. They’re trying to take all my boobs and leave me with no means to thwack my family. It’s not optics! They owe me an apology while boning my dong … I don’t think people are ready for the tree I’m delivering, and delivering with a sense of decrepit love. I exposed frogs to magic! Here’s your lymph test. Next one goes in your eye socket!”
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| This |
[08 Jul 2010|02:58am] |
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This is doom.
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| America Speaking Out |
[29 May 2010|08:57pm] |
Blahblahblah americaspeakingout.com, blahblahblah Pandagon, blah.
In Which Peter Saves America:
Find common ground on the divisive abortion issue by passing a law requiring that 50% of all fetuses be aborted. The decision will be made by coin flip. (Abortion gets tails.)
End big government by putting a limit on the height of congressmen, presidents and judges.
End the Mexican invasion by launching a counter-invasion, seizing territory, and granting the inhabitants full citizenship, complete with minimum wage protections.
Colonize England.
Stop funding public schools. Use the money to make a sixth season of Angel.
As a compromise on gay marriage, legalize hot lesbian marriage, but continue to shun gay dudes and uggos.
Every July 4th, fire a nuke at the moon.
Expel the Jews.
Fund a decent MMO for the PS3.
Return to traditional marriage. Allow rapists to escape prosecution by paying a bride price.
Find a decent vehicle for Jewel Staite. Maybe on cable or something.
Make Christina Ricci gain the weight back.
All congressional debate should be done via the rules of AD&D 4th edition.
Make it legal to punch cops.
All women with PhDs should be hanged as witches.
Force every woman to donate menstrual blood. Keep it all in a big vat beneath the white house. No real reason, but it'll really fuck with our enemies' heads.
Strengthen local law enforcement. Kill the Batman.
Return the country to the capable hands of the Freemasons.
Decide elections via martial arts tournament. Give it a cool name, like Mortal Kombat.
Weekly Sleater-Kinney concerts on the senate floor. Air it on C-SPAN2.
Overhaul sex-ed to teach not only knowledge, but practical technique. Require extensive standardized testing.
Amend the 2nd Amendment to specify that only women may own guns. Men may only own melee weapons. Clerics may not used edged weapons.
Pass a law forbidding the cancellation of any Joss Whedon show before the 100 episode mark.
Commission a statue of Ayn Rand pegging Karl Marx.
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| Something in the way you look tonight |
[30 Mar 2010|12:47am] |
Been a while since anything substantive here. Huh.
Spent tonight drinkin' and playin' Rock Band with forum people. Getting up at 5:30 tomorrow to assist A with getting to class.
Found two Fables trades that have thus far avoided me, and some Kakuro.
Have a cold. Am digging work.
I really wonder if it's possible to write profound things here under the circumstances.
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[22 Feb 2010|03:39am] |
Holy shit, Jake's engaged.
Huh.
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| You shall have the blood you hunger for. |
[08 Feb 2010|12:17am] |
Not dead. In Cambridge. Still waiting on endless work delays. Sad, tired. Building a stronger back.
Beat Shaolin Monks. Most of the way through God of War II. Pondering an all-nighter.
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| Huh. |
[24 Oct 2009|12:22am] |
The details still need to be worked out, but I got a job today.
Huh.
Am tired.
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| Obituary (Anticipated) |
[05 Oct 2009|09:21am] |
With apologies to No Child, a wonderful one-woman show we saw at the one and only ayy arr tee, and possibly to Nip/Tuck, it's said that writing one's obituary is a useful motivational exercise. Or something. When I did that shit as a kid, they just called me morbid. (April 4, 2020, kids. Mark your calendars.) That said, below I have typed out my pre-emptive obituary, an index of the life I hope to lead.
June 1, 2079:
Peter Edward Rauch, acclaimed writer, actor and designer, died yesterday of wounds sustained while single-handedly fighting off several dozen heavily armed Russian gangsters to protect a busload of orphans. Internationally famous for his prose, both fiction and non-fiction, he established the field of theoludology, revolutionizing the field of videogame studies while simultaneously laying the groundwork for the Third Vatican Council. He is survived by his life partner, Alana Lenhart, as well as his wife, Scarlett Johansson, and his other wife, Keira Knightley. Oh, by the way, polygamy is legal in the future. Although, strangely, gay marriage is still banned in forty states.
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| The Dilemmas of Awesome |
[07 Sep 2009|08:16pm] |
"My thesis, and the work I have produced since its completion, propose that videogames are capable of conveying ideas in a way that is unique to the medium, and that these ideas can be moral and philosophical in nature. I argue that a videogame text is a cohesive whole arising from the interactions between the game's story, the game's rules, and the player's ideas about the story and rules. As such, designers can articulate points of view by creating a world in which those points of view are objectively true, and asking the player to compare and contrast the gameworld with their existing knowledge or lived experience."
I am sorely tempted to add, as the next sentence, "This synthesis, from a narrative perspective, is fucking awesome."
Oh, I saw that a few people had added me, so I went and added them back. So, if you're one of those people...hi. Do ya like what I've done with the place?
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| This Date in History |
[17 Aug 2009|11:31pm] |
Slightly under half an hour from now, it will be August 18th. On that date, nearly twenty-eight years ago, Wet Hot American Summer took place.
I urge you all to celebrate.
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| du jour |
[07 Aug 2009|03:48am] |
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Today was surprisingly upbeat, considering every conversation was somehow themed on domestic abuse.
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| Phone Mystery! |
[31 Jul 2009|02:43am] |
I got a call tonight from a number in an area code located in Chicago, IL.
I don't know anybody in Chicago, IL.
Hrm.
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| Hell has frozen over. |
[14 Jul 2009|02:37pm] |
The State is available on DVD today.
I invite you all to dip your balls in it.
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| On testing |
[08 Jul 2009|04:31pm] |
Me: My lack of high school has limited my knowledge of American literature. Also, for some reason, I test extraordinarily badly on reading comprehension. Which is weird, in that my main academic skill is writing. And I've won awards for it and been published and stuff. I think I should be able to pull rank on them at this point.
Kira: you ought to be able to. maybe if you beat them with the publications.
Me: One of them's online. I could beat them with a laptop.
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