Month: May 2017 (Page 6 of 6)

 

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. This is the opening line from Samuel Beckett’s novel Murphy. In modern literature it would be difficult to find another opening line as comedic, or as memorable, as this one. ‘Stately, plump Buck Mulligan’ just doesn’t have the same zing to it. ‘It began as a mistake,’ the opening line from Charles Bukowski’s Post Office, comes close, but for overall comic dread, Beckett wins. The opening lines of a novel are akin to travel by airplane. You have the excitement of initial takeoff. We are leaving the runway. There is a lot of noise in the beginning, maybe a bit of praying. Perhaps you are pushed back into your seat, lightheaded. Once the novel is safely up in the air, the wheels retract and the rudders are prepared for the long haul, the plateau of storytelling. This is where the real work takes place. But the opening of the novel – getting the passengers, the readers – onboard, is of the utmost importance. If a novel doesn’t catch our attention immediately, within the first few paragraphs, it is likely doomed. We put it down and move on, looking for another beauty in the darkness. Here are fourteen novels with memorable openings – at least, memorable to me. They managed to hold my attention, I stood rapt before their power, and like the stranger secretly watching us from the dark corner of the bar, I wanted to know more about them. Perhaps one of these 14 beginnings will speak to you.  – James Nulick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer key

1) William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
2) Samuel Beckett – Murphy
3) David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest
4) Georges Bataille – The Story of the Eye
5) Lydia Davis – The End of the Story
6) Fyodor Dostoevsky – Notes from Underground
7) Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio – The Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhuí
8) Joan Didion – The White Album
9) Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
10) Scott Bradfield – The History of Luminous Motion
11) James Baldwin – Giovanni’s Room
12) Elizabeth Hardwick – Sleepless Nights
13) Steve Weiner – The Museum of Love
14) Dennis Cooper – Closer

 

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p.s. Hey. Today we get the pleasure of this variegating, puzzle-y guest post from stellar author and d.l. James Nulick, and please do indulge to your curiosity’s content. Thank you ever so much, James. ** Dóra Grőber, Hi! Thank you, it’s very nice to be back here and in touch with you again. Wow, that’s awesome news about the imminent publications! So cool! Hobart is an excellent vehicle. That’s so great to hear, Dora! Yay! I can’t wait to read your works. Obviously, let us/me know when they’re accessible. How was the beer fest? My yesterday was kind of hazy, I guess understandably, as I adjust to not running around all day and evening for the first time in a while. Catching up on stuff. I had a nice if inadvertently very long walk when I went out to buy cigarettes and realized that everything was closed for May 1st except, finally, in the Japanese/French area. It was a good day of adjusting mostly. How was your Tuesday, my pal? ** Steevee, Hi. The rally was quite large and heartening. I had to exit at a certain point because it got rowdy with the police, and I can’t risk getting in trouble here because of my non-status. Well, pragmatically, the weird scene in the abandoned building could have gone wrong because things just didn’t click of their own accord, but it was weird. Our lead actor said he felt scared being in the building, and he had a hard time getting his performance right. HitlersBitch is based in Germany, no big surprise, I guess. I can’t remember wherein exactly. ** David Ehrenstein, Thank you, David! Yes, Zac and I are very happy with almost everything. Yes, the husband of the slain cop’s eulogy was very beautiful, and that was very much remarked upon here. I don’t know (remember?) what ‘Seventeen’ is, but I will use that password and find out today. Thanks! ** Tosh Berman, Lovely to have your presence within reach again, sir. ** New Juche, Hi, Joe. The producers want us to start editing in a week and a half, and we want to start editing in two-and-a-half weeks, and we will be informed this morning whether our wish for more in-between time will be granted. Excited to get the package! Thank you so much in advance! You’re home, and with a new motorbike, sweet. Are you working on a new work? ** Damien Ark, Hey there, Damien! Thanks about the shoot photos. Yeah, we’re ultra-jazzed and excited to start editing and find out if our optimism is warranted. The electronic track in the club scene is Thomas Brinkmann’s ‘PSA’. Finding a ghost or two in the footage would be a boon, but not orbs. We’d just have to laboriously erase those. Wow, you’re on one of life’s cusps. What’s your post-associates plan? As a doer of any, many drafts of everything I write (except the p.s., obviously), I suspect the pay off will have been worth the weirdness. You know, the Nazi fetish is strangely very rare, at least in the Master/Slave scene. I would think it would be a staple, but I only come across guys into that fetish maybe once every six months if that. And the slave did say he was into snuff, so … there’s that, I guess? ** Jeff J, Hi, Jeff! Mm, actually quite a lot of the scenes turned out differently than I/we had imagined, a lot of the time because the performers, who we knew were really good, just really blew us away with what they brought to their parts, and also because we were forced to shoot very fast, which meant our original plans/shot list had to be greatly consolidated in order to get everything filmed, and so the scenes’ visualization changed a lot, often on the spot, but, luckily, we were happy with what we ended up with. Ultimately, I can say that most of the scenes exceeded our expectations. The only ones that didn’t were due to technical problems, and there were only a few of those. The Guibert uninterested me for a lot of reasons. One, I feel like I’ve read that book a hundreds times before: gay aesthete romanticizing his longings for a rough, straight or semi-straight boy. The boy’s effect being infinitely more important than the boy. The conceit that the writer’s gift for portraying his own emotions is so transcendent that it makes his condescension towards and objectification of the boy a non-issue. And while I thought the writing/translation was graceful enough, it seemed pretty unremarkable, both in its quality and in its observations. I felt like Guibert was trying to do Roland Barthes at his gayest but without the genius and also a bit of Genet without the daring and corrosiveness. I actually thought Bruce Hainley’s introduction was much more interesting than the Guibert text. And, also, given how little Guibert is available in English, why translate/publish such a slight work? I don’t know. I wasn’t into it. I’m very glad your epic battle with computers is finally over. Jesus, that was quite a trek. Maybe some good news? I’m on tenterhooks. ** H, Hi. Thank you. Your Akerman piece sounds very intriguing. I will hope to get to read it when you’re finished, very much! Nope, didn’t like that ‘new’ Guibert much. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. I wouldn’t say the rally was fun, but it was interesting. The Left here is quite divided about how to defeat Le Pen, so there’s a confused feeling amidst the attempt at solidarity. But it was good. The way the press outside of France writes about Le Pen is mostly obnoxious and half-informed and salacious and is of no help whatsoever. RIP: Jean Stein, indeed. That’s very sad. ** Misanthrope, Hey, G. *Psst* he wasn’t really dead. ‘Same old shit’ is life itself, man. I’m a ‘same old shit’ guy myself. Who isn’t, really? The shit is always greener? Yuck, sorry. Lots of funny stuff happened during the shoot, but I’m trying to think of something that would be funny if you weren’t there. Mm, there’s a scene in the film where a character who’s obsessed with pinatas, but who collects them yet doesn’t want to use/break them, hangs one in his tree and breaks it. It was a custom made piñata meant to do a particular non-pinata-like thing, and we only had three of them, and the actor kept smashing it to bits in a way that didn’t let it do what it was custom made to do, which actually doesn’t sound funny at all now that I describe it, but it was. Sorry. ** Kyler, Hi, K! Nice to see you, man! Well, with the new film, we’re actually hoping you’ll get to see it in actual theater, if all goes well. Unlike ‘LCTG’, it’s a real movie, or, well, ‘real’ ‘movie’, albeit in a very strange way. I do speak to my sister, we’re good. And I am close with my nephew. I don’t speak to one of my brothers. Yeah, strangely, Mercury Retrograde seems to have been very kind to us out in Cherbourg. I hope its passing gives you a hell of a boost on every front. ** Right. Make sure to thoroughly dig through James’ post today, and, as always with guest-posts, I hope you will reward the post and its maker by giving it/him your comments. See you tomorrow.

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Fuck_My_Luck, 20
|| Unleash your Inner Extremist Fantasies ||

Gorgeous Looking Fit European Boy But Not For Long ( Check out the cuteness in the pictures while it lasts )

 

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blindtwink, 21
I can’t see, but it ain’t a problem.

My hole is open, I can fit two dilods in but I have tried to fist myself once or twice and was not able to fit in… but if I must to be fisted… with my pleasure will do that

I currently live in Norway for a while but I will move in Greece from Octomber to study in a collage.

My experiences are doing thing front of a cam whatever I was ordered and then once in a real life but he turned up only for one night ,, depressing

 

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FormedByYourHands, 22
Romantic slut slave ISO similar opposite. I do better in relationships. Even bad ones. Interested in meaningful axe grinding. Strings attached? Hell yeah.

 

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new-begin, 23
hi i am new only a few days

abaut m,e better you found alone
like to get drunk
like also to get fuck a lot and i can get fuck very very long … if is it
you can fuck very hard how ever you like a fucking bich with a big hole
Dont lose the time come to Leipziger strasse

BECAUSE I HAPYNED, BECAUSE I BEAUTYFUL,BECAUSE I LOV THIS

 

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WildCat, 20
I am not looking for ???… Unless you have a really good reason to talk me into it!

I speak English, Italian and Spanish; and a bit of German and French too! I’m a very cultured young person with a fantastic young boy body who loves both listening to men issuing horny expletives and issuing them myself!

I feel like I’m sane but I’m obviously not!

I get all queer and silly for hypnotist daddies! I know they say that hypnosis doesn’t make you do anything you really wouldn’t want to or last beyond the hypnotism session but that’s obviously not true so far or I’m a freak!

I keep my body wan and ascetic and untouched by the sun, and I have a good sense of humor about that!

Moi 😉 ♥

 

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24yo4yo, 23
Hai, I’m what most people call a little, I like cookies and chocolate and nobody has ever touched me down there.

Fist me and breed me.

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Anonymous – Jan 12, 2017
Not only is he a convincing little boy, but beside that he is a real intellectual.

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GoodbyeGuy, 21
Hello please? Can someone help me and the amount of 4000e I need money for this and make any amount that appeal to all friends and nobody helped me, I’ll do Anything I need forces have some problems, Im begging anyone i do this for my mom shes in comatos right now and is very serious, photo is not me but looks frighteningly similar.

 

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SlaveKanecki, 20
Intro

The first thing I do is to make a list of the main points.

What I like:
(Now are only small examples I fall with the time more but if one knit drankt the head is always empty.)

Slave marking:
Needles / Piercings / extreme Canning / Tattoo / Big scars.

Kidnapping:
Against the sake (pronounced) somehow and somewhere where it is going to be hijacked, kidnapped, snapped possibly stunted or gagged, tied up and put into the trunk and brought into the “kill” location.

Longer shackles:
Caged, day / night slave, violent endurance as eg. Electricute, any liquid enemas, etc

Extreme session result:
Crying, sobbing, flaming, pleading, whining, yelling … allowed, ignored.
Maim and cute, remove … if necessary snip off finger or toe, earlobe, something quite small discreet.

I am a great lover

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IRON666CBT – Apr 7, 2017
He was a great lover.

I restrictively bound him with his holes optimally positioned for continuous use. I beat his ass bloody (he supplied the equipment!). I used his face as a punching bag. I destroyed his nipples with nails, razors, cigarette lighter. I carved my name into his pale white back flesh. I burned his dick and asshole with cigars and cigarettes over and over again. He made a wonderful urinal that drank from everyone (I had some friends over). For the last part of the event, my friends and I filled his belly with shit before sending him home without his clothes.

Ask him for a current pic.

 

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fifthfloorresident, 23
I’m Liam and I live in Leeds. I’m not out as gay but had sub feelings since I can remember having feelings. I would like to try to break any record a Master has for keeping a slave in a cage with no food or water. I don’t think I have any limits other than not being forced to come out yet. For instance if there is a “tragic accident” it would be important that it’s never discovered to have been gay related.

 

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CreativeName, 18
I just graduated high school with honors. I’m sitting in my bedroom in Hamilton, Canada with everything I own in a backpack.

I would say I’m the most attractive person in the world. I’ve always thought I am, and no one has ever disagreed who wasn’t obviously lying.

I can’t tell if I’m an empathetic person, a sub, or an enabler for narcissists. I guess it doesn’t matter.

I’ve always had a huge need of being locked up, but I have a history of escaping. If someone can lock me in a cell or cage I can’t escape from, I will appreciate it.

 

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No,Max, 18
Hello I am Max, and I am really really 18 years old ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I live in a SUV one nice man gave me and meet you only in my SUV within a radius of 700km around Moers.

I speak English, and I prefer to mumble.

⭐️⭐️⭐️
With me you can:

Gnawing lion kiss
Corroding
Pale
Fucking (deep!!!! sub-sub-basement)
Lick
Messages
Bleak
Socks in mouth (my record is 6)
I am the screamy type 🙂

⭐️⭐️⭐️
With me you can’t:
Hijack my SUV
Complain
Kill me
Suck your dick till after you cum
Be analytical

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No,Max – Apr 10, 2017
I don’t know why I’m real. What a strange question. You sound crazy.

antonio_antonio – Apr 10, 2017
How can you possibly be real? It’s inconceivable.

No,Max – Apr 10, 2017
I am real.

antonio_antonio – Apr 10, 2017
There is no way on God’s green earth that you’re real.

 

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stuntmanmike, 20
I love getting extremely fucked up then experiencing ass (mine) to face (yours) intensity.
Need a friend?

 

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TicklishActor, 22
Young, boyish and straight.

Straight as I can be, i do not get turned on by guys like others here.

However, I have this fantasy of being enslaved and bent into a gay slut boy who goes crazy at any sight of a dick. This transformation and “mind f-ing/brain washing” turns me on even more than girls.

Imagine this straight boy whom everybody thinks is a perfect boyfriend for girls and a boy next door, but deep down he is slut boy who obeys your every command. And he is yours to keep.

Seek the one who has the ability to change me. By any means necessary. Hypnosis, brain washing, head surgery, penectomy, castration, chemicals, brain damage …

Message me to discuss when.

No weirdos.

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littleasianMaster – Apr 11, 2017
i am a small asian master, you can trust me how cruel i can be, or do to you. also i like to take care of my slaves, i listen to them. I want to frequently do fisting to you, my arms are so skinny that all my slaves felt greatly satifisted.

 

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fuckthehell, 18
Just another Emo high school student. Quite experienced to the whole BDSM world though. I’ve only had 3 encounters but they gave me a lot of experience in most areas.

I am by no means hardcore about this, so if you’re used to having a wailing, gory 18 year old in your dungeon, don’t bother, I’d just be a disappointment.

I like to be thrown against a wall and choked while being fucked. But if I don’t have hots for you, forget it: if you’re older than 30, I won’t even open your message – sorry.

I downloaded this app when I was horny one night, so probably won’t be on much. But when I am – hoo boy! Not to mention I’m sexier than any other boy on here objectively speaking.

 

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supersmiley, 21
Yo

So I’m a bit of a bizarre one.

I’m simply proposing photo and video trades, based around me sending you whatever you want and you sending me a photo or video of you sneezing. If I like it, then we can do what it is that I really want, which is…

You sneezing in my mouth.

Told you.

 

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PoutyAsian, 19
I often sleep totally naked, sometimes imagining being bound and tortured by a man, sometimes imagining being with a girl. If you are not into me, I would like to know how you think.

A little about me:
I am 5’5”, 115 lbs. (April 8, 2017)
I shave my pubic area.
I once dreamt fucking my roommate and his girlfriend so I guess I am not 100% passive.
I always like to have a mirror in front me so I can see myself.
I like being interrogated by police until I’m crying and confused and believe I did things I didn’t do.
I once dreamt myself lying dead in bed, naked, stomach and chest carved open by a knife and covered in semen and several ten-dollar bills scattered on my body.
I like clean white cutton briefs but I hate jockstraps.

I hope you are well-built and dislike fast food.
Have ripped abs.
You need to have a high paying occupation.

Some other stuff:
You may masturbate reading my profile.
My response may be not prompt, as I have other business to do.
The sexual relationship between you and me, if any, is not forever, and it will come to an end.

 

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HitlersBitch, 22
SSlave into heavy SM, snuff and adicted to poppers.
Property of SSirPaul54.
NO contact.
ONE grandpa is enough.

 

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master-of-education, 18
I am 38 years old master want to sell my slave 18 years. It is here for a new master so no sex… this is only about you fucking buying my sow.

If you have want on a totally devoted sow then pay me.

Small cock, smaller hairless ass, slightly retarded, ok with almost everything except bloods, otherwise everything.

Before you ask if everything includes the thing that can’t be mentioned here, the answer is yes, but only bloodlessly.

A possible meeting point to do the transfer is along the A70 motorway in the Großraum Schweinfurt.

 

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CheapDog, 21
1. twist
Milk feet
3. Bundled (including jJ)
4. Kelvin cheap dog anywhere
5. drink urine
6. milk lattice
7. than the owner step on J
8. all the way to the feet of fruit than the owner step on the way
9. cheap dog system underground, one of the parents of milk, the owner of the other foot with a dog twist
10. stuffed into the dog hole
11. Department of cheap dog body to write above
12. plug the owner of the stinky pants into the dog’s mouth
13. Blindness
14. Bite the owner only shoes
15. crazy master shoes only cheap dog mouth
16. play dog to put sleep
17. play dog food
18. film / shadow (put the Internet or open)
Make a face with JJ
20. daily tuning (than the instructions called the cheap dog to do, cheap dog shadow)
21. Cock cheap dog
22. Spit the water at any place
23. Field

(translate from google of dog language)

 

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18yofaggotslaveboy, 18
Greetings all masters allow me to introduce myself my name is mike i am an 18 year old high school senior. I graduate in may so june 1 i am looking to become fully owned and controlled property.i am straight and have been enduring hardcore slave training since my 18 th birthday in december. I currently have a master that is trashing me but doesnt want to keep me.it has been a huge adjustment going from being a free teenager into girls able to do what i wanted to being a worthless sexslave.i no longer get to decide what i wear or eat or anything.

 

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NECROPTIC, 18
YOU! I’m very weird, not funny at all and got a perverted sick twisted mind and say random gross psychotic things during sex which I will only have if it’s like a sick disturbing torturous brutal blood disgusting violently unimaginable horror movie like The Hills Run Red, Saw 1-7, Halloween 1-10, Evil Dead and a few others.

 

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Swirl, 22
hi every fan of mine my name is Lucas are eager sex does not get enough sex I wanna show you I know not a-SORRY I offer anal sex and I am 22 years old and very much expect fuck your message

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TomaszZ – April 12, 2017
And I remember when I met him, it was so clear that
he was the only slave for me.
We both knew it, right away.
And as the months went on, things got more difficult —
we were faced with more challenges.
I “begged” him to stay. “Try to remember what
we had at the beginning.” He was charismatic, magnetic,
electric and everybody knew it. When I shared him in groups
every master’s head turned, everyone talked to him.
I got the sense that he became torn
between being my good slave and
missing out on all of the opportunities that life could
offer a bottom as magnificent as him.
And in that way I understood him
and I loved him.
I loved him, I loved him, I loved him.
And I still love him.
I love him.

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chaos19, 19
Nothing great will ever be acheived without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

* fighting MS. It’s not a concern for you.

 

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p.s. Hey. Welcome back to you guys and to me too. In a nutshell, the film shoot went very, very well, and I’m extremely happy with what we shot and excited to start editing the footage into an actual film beginning in a couple of weeks. I’m sure more about that experience will filter out below. There’s a bunch to catch up on, so let’s start. ** David Ehrenstein, Long time no see! Thank you for sharing your Akerman wisdom. Hooray about the ‘Providence’ link. Everyone, Mr. Ehrenstein has discovered that Alain Resnais’s incredible film ‘Providence’ — which would be in my top 5 all-time favorite films, and which was a massive influence on my novel ‘The Marbled Swarm’ , and which isn’t easy to see — is on youtube. Here. Extremely highly recommended, obviously. I knew Philip Lopate a little when I lived in NYC in the early 80s. Good guy. All signs say that Le Pen will lose the election, but, at the same time, we’ve heard that story before. I’m heading off to a massive anti-Le Pen rally at Republique as soon as I finish this. ** MANCY, Hi, man! It took about five days into the shoot before I started feeling not so sick, but then it was fine, thank you for the ray healing. ** James Nulick, May 1st it is! ** Dóra Grőber, Hi, Dora! Did you have a great couple-plus weeks? I can’t wait to hear. I did eventually get better. It took a while, but I managed to do everything I needed to do even when I was feeling ugh, so no prob. Tell me how you’ve been and what’s happening please? ** Sypha, Thanks, James. Yes, my sickness, whatever it was, was a lingerer, but luckily it never became debilitating. How’s stuff? ** Jamie, Hi, Jamie, hey, buddy! I’m happy to be back here. What’s been happening with you during the blog’s indisposition? Well, to risk immodesty, I do think we shot a pretty amazing film. One never knows until until you start editing everything together, but I really think it’s going to be strange in the way we want and great. In any case, it’s nice to feel that way. Whoa, so the cartoon is finished! Has it been aired yet? Can we/I see it somehow? That’s super cool no matter what. How was the Aberdeen theme park? I’m going to google it. ** H, Hi, h! How did your Akerman piece turn out? ** Misanthrope, Thanks, buddy. It was pretty safe all in all. What’s news with you? ** Bill, Hey Bill! I did not see ‘The Babadook’. I’ve wanted to, but it’s still in the queue. How is it? What’s new? ‘No sex’ does seem to be trending. Huh, I just read the new Guibert translation on my train ride back to Paris yesterday, and I found it really irritating and ugh for some reason. But I was very pooped at the time. The first round of the election results were hugely predictable. It doesn’t seem that Le Pen got a boost from the Champs Elysee shooting, which was the big worry. But, yeah, the atmosphere here is still very pins and needles right now. ** New Juche, Thanks, Joe. Everything went great, or almost everything, and the things that didn’t go great are salvageable, I think. And you? ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben! Great to see you, my friend! Yes, very sad about Mika Vainio. It’s weird because Zac and I were thinking seriously of approaching him to ask to use a track of his in our film, but we ended up not doing that. Anyway, big loss. And then the great, very great Vito Acconci too. Congrats on the constant driving lessons improvements! ** Steevee, Hi, Steve! Cool, new stuff to read by you. Everyone, go read Steevee’s review of Dash Shaw’s MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA right here. Thanks a lot for the film-related hopes. Like I guess I’ve said a bunch, I’m very happy with what we shot. Very happy. I think people who’ve seen ‘LCTG’ will be quite surprised, hopefully in a good way. The shoot was very intense, 12 – 14 hours of shooting every day with only one day off in the middle, which wasn’t much of a day off. But apart from two problems — (1) the camera broke (and had to replaced, which took about 10 hours) during the shooting of one scene, which will cause us to be forced to have to make something out of what little we did manage to shoot during editing, and (2) one scene we shot in an abandoned building just went totally wrong in such a strange and thorough way that, even though I don’t believe in this stuff, I do almost think that place must have cursed or haunted, causing us to have a scramble to shoot anything we could to get something we can hopefully transform in the editing — the shoot went amazingly well all the time. I’m glad you’re feeling much better. And I’m very happy you’re writing for the Voice! ** Mike morey, Hi, Mike. Welcome to here and thank you! Hang out. ** Dynomoose, Thanks, Adrienne! It went really well. ** William, Hi, William! Thanks a lot! Yeah, me too. The plan is to have the film finished by the end of September at the latest. ** Liquoredgoat, Hi, D! Good to see you, man! Thanks for the film luck. I think it worked. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh! And here I am back in the saddle, a little rusty, but that’ll smooth off. ** Jeff Coleman, Hi, Jeff! Ah, the interview is up! Thanks a lot, buddy! Everyone, New Juche is interviewed about his great new book MOUNTAINHEAD right here, and it’s as fascinating as you could imagine. Go there, yes? ** Chris dankland, Hi, Chris! Before I go any further, thank you so much for the guest-post. It’s great! That collection is going to be killer. I’ll launch the post here on this coming Saturday. Thanks for the link. I don’t think I’ve ever seen/heard anyone do a Pollard imitation before, so I’m most, most curious. Thanks about the film. I think it’s going to be great, I really do. Take care, man. ** Okay. We’re caught up! By strange coincidence, you get last month’s slaves post back to back with last month’s escorts post, which is kind of strange, but that’s the way the cookie has crumbled. I’ll have to start working hard to get the blog going in the usual way again since I haven’t had any time to make new posts, but, luckily, you’ll get three fantastic guest-posts this week in addition to a couple of restorations. Hopefully by next week, newness will prevail again. Again, good to see everybody! See you tomorrow.