Neu Fred to the Cult
Hmmm... Apparently my old account no longer works after a long hiatus. So here goes number two.
I stumbled across the The Cult I don’t recall how long ago, purchased the DVD and a ‘The Cult’ t-shirt which I have dreaded wearing ever since the first of many, ‘Oh, I love the Cult too! I saw them live back in ….” comments. Yeah, Firewoman is a great song.
Anyway, I’ve been a corporate whore for the past decade, selling what’s left of my soul to the Devil, Inc. In some futile attempt to save what’s left of my sanity I’m giving all the glitz and glamour of sitting in a cubicle and listening to men in ties ramble on for hours and hours about nothing, I’m giving it all up at the end of September for a life of poverty and yes… freedom.
In the interim I’ve signed up for a number of courses at the recently discovered Community Writing Center, which is within walking distance from my modest dwelling downtown, and am stoked at my workshop: Micro Fiction, which starts this Thursday. Once I ratchet down from my McJob I plan on joining the Writers Workshop and hopefully wreak some havoc there.
I moved out to Utard when I was a little kid via Pittsburgh/NC/Chicago as Daddy Warbucks worked his way up the corporate ladder. Not being Mormon, it’s an extremely surreal place to live. Which I’ve come to find out lends one a vast array of interesting and bizarre characters, ideas and occurrences. Having said that, and living north of Pittsburgh on the edge of Amish country, I relate most to Survivor than any of Chuck’s book. However, being a huge fan of Edward Abby and living in the backyard of The Monkey Wrench Gang, I appreciate the social angst of Fight Club.
Anyway…
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Would I remember you, Feather, or do you remember me?
I rarely wear my cult tee, but my Choke tee always gets questions. Usually at Trader Joes. Weird.
Welcome back.
Actually I should have prefaced that statement with the fact that the girls are usually cute and it has led to a decent conversation or two. Now that it's faded in a '90's sort of way, it has more street cred.
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Welcome back.
Neither as I can't say I was that 'active' here in the past. Mostly an amused lurker who benefited a handful of times from some of the book recommendations.
Happy to be back.
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Welcome back former inactive poster. Hopefully you'll pop some viagra and post more often.
Welcome back.
Neither as I can't say I was that 'active' here in the past. Mostly an amused lurker who benefited a handful of times from some of the book recommendations.
Happy to be back.
Aha, book recommendations.. Is your "Fred" a Baerism?
Aha, book recommendations.. Is your "Fred" a Baerism?
'Baerism'? I'm still struggling to get my arms around that one. I'm guessing War42 has something to do with Baerism?
Granted, I'm just shooting at the barn wall with my eyes closed here.
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damn!
I thought it was a Baerism as well, Mirka.
Welcome back, Merchant MKII. Hopefully you stick around and post some more this time, you seem like a pretty interesting cat--speaking of cats...
and so you're not too confused, Baerism was just coined now. it refers to an author that is much-loved around here--Will Christopher Baer. He has a triology of tasty neo-noir and the reference to "fred" is from his second installment in that series called Penny Dreadful.
You should check this guy out. He has a short story or two in the features section of this website. Suffer the Fool is definitely up there, and that's a great story. the guy has a beautiful knack for setting and tone. brilliant.
again, welcome and enjoy your stay.
Damn. Where'd I put my icons?
This is why we can't have nice things.
Welcome Feather, your moving avatar fucks with my server. But welcome.
moving avatars seem to be the trend at the moment--you've got Tuffy, Nate, Merchant, Kirk, and there's probably more. maybe i'll get one. but of what?
i love my i.m. shirt and wear it all the time. several times ive had people recognize the novel and had a few conversations. mostly, though, people just "What cult are you a part of?"
dum dums get no love
as for the fred part, it killed me to learn that it was NOT a reference to Penny Dreadful. too many coincidences.. but yeah, check out dude's work:
http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts
and plenty more on his site, here:
http://www.willchristopherbaer.com/misc.php
and welcome to the cult and i look forward to seeing you in the workshop !!
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
Welcome back.
Neither as I can't say I was that 'active' here in the past. Mostly an amused lurker who benefited a handful of times from some of the book recommendations.
Happy to be back.
But what was your screen name before?
Yeah, what Matt said. I thought Fred was a reference to the brilliant novel 'Penny Dreadful' by Will Christopher Baer.
Alright, well I now get the Baer reference. Sorry haven't gotten around to reading anything by him yet. I did a quick Google search of 'Baerism' to try and show that I 'got' the reference, but that led down some road to... Well, I'm not certain where that road led but we all ended up here so it's all good.
Actually, 'Fred' is a term we use out west to describe a new and akward person at something. Like skiing or mountain biking. They typically stick out and aren't hard to spot. I'm certain that after 'Penny Dreadful' I'll be able to move 'Fred' into new ground.
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Sorry about that. Instead of using my own ugly mug, it was the closest thing (from what I'm told) of my actual image and demeanor. Tourettes can be a real bitch sometimes.
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Sorry about that. Instead of using my own ugly mug, it was the closest thing (from what I'm told) of my actual image and demeanor. Tourettes can be a real bitch sometimes.
No its cool man, just change the fucking thing.
mind Derek, Merchant. he's a cunt.
Alright, well I now get the Baer reference. Sorry haven't gotten around to reading anything by him yet. I did a quick Google search of 'Baerism' to try and show that I 'got' the reference, but that led down some road to... Well, I'm not certain where that road led but we all ended up here so it's all good.
Actually, 'Fred' is a term we use out west to describe a new and akward person at something. Like skiing or mountain biking. They typically stick out and aren't hard to spot. I'm certain that after 'Penny Dreadful' I'll be able to move 'Fred' into new ground.
But what was your screen name before?
just keep asking, Nate. he'll give it up eventually and if not, we can always turn to internet torture.
oh, i will.
But what was your screen name before?
I believe it was Deepcove. I think I may have posted up once before, ages ago before all the changes on the website. But my Alzheimers is attempting a pincer move at any recollection beyond that. Mostly a lurker until the other day.
Sorry for the lack of any conspiracy theory to entertain you nathaniel parker.
And the 'Deepcove' also had zero 'Fred' street cred despite the secretive nature of the name. It's actually a sweet spot up in British Columbia.
I wear a size 12 shoe if that helps and prefer Converse even though they wear out quickly.
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okay. you probably did only post once. I remember everyone's name if they post more than three times and I don't remember that one.
or I suppose you could have posted before I joined. that's a possibility.
Possibly, although now that the secret's out I'm going to assume that this thread will now die a quick, painful e-death.
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Possibly, although now that the secret's out I'm going to assume that this thread will now die a quick, painful e-death.
The second rule of thread-making states that the original poster has little-to-no control over the lifespan or direction of their thread.
second post rule!
It's infallible!
What's with all the fucking animated avatars in this thread?
I dont know man, Monkey and Nates are cool but Feather Merchants one is hideously annoying. Im glad this is the internet or a bit of GBH would be going on.
Let the Animated Gif Bonanza commence!
It's either animated gifs or an abundance of unicorns (both animated and static).
I can't post without one or the other and I've tired of unicorns after 6 years of derailing threads in another, non-related website.
Ooops...there it goes again.
You should try it some time. It's addicting.
The gifs that is... not watching a young Jack Osbourne rub one out in Ozzy's basement.
Back to work.
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Thanks for the links JKabol. Perfect timing BTW as I've reached the end of my pending pile of books.
I started reading 'Tell All' but put it down after a couple chapters. Seems I'm having a bit of a hard time getting into that one for some reason. The story just isn't gelling for me right now. Perhaps in a few months I'll revisit it.
Perhaps not.
dum dums get no love
as for the fred part, it killed me to learn that it was NOT a reference to Penny Dreadful. too many coincidences.. but yeah, check out dude's work:
http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts
and plenty more on his site, here:
http://www.willchristopherbaer.com/misc.php
and welcome to the cult and i look forward to seeing you in the workshop !!
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Oh fuck off.
Animated what, now?
This is why we can't have nice things.
Now you need to add subtitles to make him say something inappropriate
This is why we can't have nice things.
This is why we can't have nice things.
BTW, I blame .gifs on the Canadians. Go to any Canuck based thread and it's rampant.
But considering I'm 1/4 Canadian (French Canadian actually, which apparently are supposed to be the worst)...
Yep.
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That one is entitled "Guy On Bike Shitting His Pants".
This is why we can't have nice things.
needs something about cocaine.
I'll just leave this here
That is by far the best .gif I've seen within that post.
Hands down.
needs something about cocaine.
I'll just leave this here
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needs something about cocaine.
I'll just leave this here
I would watch a whole movie about cat ninjas.
You know in all the years I've been here I've never been sigged?
wow! are you david cassidy? oh my god this is sooo cool!!!
I wear my cult shirt all the time and I've never once had someone recognize what it was from. Plenty of "explain this to me" moments though.