I thought of an interesting game based on an earlier post, if anyone wants to play. I have handwritten journals going back to late 2003 (and even a few from before that, going back to 5/92). The current set is 29 volumes @ at least 200 pages per notebook. If you shout out a volume # and page # I might possibly type it here without too many redactions.
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Vol 12 page 12!
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Vol 12 Page 12 is the 2nd page of a December 05, 2007 entry:
-sort of secrets he's told me. "I've been writing it since before I started working with you two years ago. It's four thousand pages longhand. *REDACTED SENTENCE* You see me buying all those notebooks. I fill 'em up," I explain. "What's it about?" he asks. "It's my consciousness preserved," I say. There's a silence that the waiter delivers our orders into, carpet bombing the table with greasy food. Jody got a hamburger with a f*cking fried egg & hash on it. R[i]diculous. I had a club sandwich. It was really good. And some french fries. Our waiter revealed himself to be an ex-con & former repo man. I got him to tell us some cool tales. <12>
That was a hell of a pick, rowsdower. I can still taste that Denny's food. It was 3am+. We'd all just gotten off work unloading trucks. How interesting that in your selection I am laying out the plan for my project? The same project we are discussing now. Synchronicity like a motherscratcher. Wow.
I won't tell you the titles of the volumes, but I will say that #12 has an opening page with a beautiful, small oval sticker with an over-the-left-shoulder tartish look from Britney Spears with a nice wavy hair thing going. Prime-period, circa 2001 or earlier. Bordered by a blue and pink band. It was from some crap laying on a counter, I thought it would look good as my opening page and it sure does.
Thanks for your participation, any other takers? I think it's quite fun.
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10.12.09 continuing:
-F**K Superman-
-years too late. Hey, I was thinking yesterday, that Superman could not reverse time by spinning the world backwards, like a record on a turntable. The rotation of the planet causes gravity to happen, sticking everything to the surface. The crust to the mantle. If the Earth stopped turning, or if it went backwards, gravity would stop or reverse... Each leading to the same outcome: The implosion of the entire planet. Now I know Ma Kent didn't raise up no rocket surgeons out there in the Kansas wheat fields, so that means Superman would've risked blowing up the whole planet just to get his fave rave Earth *CENSORED* back from the dead. <118> That bastard risked my young life in 1978 over Margot Kidder. There are and were so many hotter chicks to blow up the earth over. What about the chick who played Wonder Woman on TV? She was hot. Or Wilma Deering from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. I'd blow up the world for her sweet vag-ine. Seriously. Or prime period Sally Field, from Smokey & The Bandit. Debra Winger in Urban Cowboy. Olivia Newton John in Xanadu! But not the chick from Black Christmas! Never for her. I think he should've gotten something going with that hot evil Kryptonian chick. What did he do to the Kryptonians? How did Zod finally go under? <119>
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I'm no physicist (though I played one on TV), but I think it's the MASS of Earth that keeps us sticking to it, if you subscribe to the outdated Newtonian physics, that is.
F = G(Mm)/r^2, weren't it?
I think that if the Earth stopped rotating, most people would only notice when they went to see Foucault pendulum just wiggling back and forth.
Others, though, would probably notice when the oceans began to rise and the climate took to catastrophic changes. But I doubt they'd be launched into space. Maybe just a few feet east (distance relative to distance from equator), but not into space.
But, again, I'm not a physicist.
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BJax and AC,
I believe you are misinterpreting the end of SUPERMAN. Superman does not "reverse the earth's rotation" (as most people suppose, because that's what it looks like onscreen). Like the fellow named Bright in the limerick, he flies faster than light in order to travel backwards in time to the moment just before Lois got killed. When he cracks the light barrier, the earth SEEMS to spin backward: it's a clunky attempt at an FTL POV shot.
Of course, as he approaches lightspeed, his mass approaches infinity, but we won't get into the gravitational issues here. After all, the Flash used to do this shit all the time with no discernible ill effects.
Sarah Douglas! YEAH, baby!
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7! I still say F**k him. What did he ever do for me, this Superman?
Wasn't Sarah Douglas in the uh, something else? Excalibur? The Conan sequel? Something?
You know, I also thought Superman's mom was hot in that Altman flick she did. Didn't she do that one Altman flick? Isn't that her in 'Images'?
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v29p95
I don't know what to do with myself. I'm wasting my life. How many people feel this way? I think all of them do. I'd bet you do. I know, for a fact, that I do & always have. I think even successful people feel this way. Hot couples would never get divorces! Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston would've never gotten tired enough of f**king each other to file the paperwork, even through para-legals! If rich, successful people didn't get tired of fantastic things, you could imagine that money in your pocket or attention or whatever will make you feel fulfilled. A job even. A place to be at a predetermined time. We let our appointments define us. Let me check my calendar: Looks like I'm free. <95>
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