Podcast 5 features another reading. In .wav format, too!
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That is a 27.6 MB file, that first one.
I may as well point this out now: you are under no obligation to listen or react. If the story is too long or the file too big, skip it. That’s pretty simple, I should think.
I don’t want to force you to fear me.
I was just saying cause I have been downloading them here and emailing home to listen to later when I can give it my full attention but this one, it is too big to email so I will put it on a thumb drive and take that home I think is what I will do. We have lots of thumb drives cause we use them for promotional purposes. How is your day going?
And yet I feel obligated. It’s a compulsion, really.
I AM UNDER TEH SPELL OF JEFF G!!! SOMEONE PLEASE SAVE MEEEEE….
My day is shitty. I’m a horrible human being. And I’m taking you all down with me.
I figured out what was going on with the first, when I was hearing the click/poppy sound.
As it turns out, listening to it at work only gives like the first 30 seconds or so. So I didn’t have any idea it went further than that until yesterday [and Jeff. Disappointing how things are going. Just sayin’]
Also, the popping sounds were on the second too, but I think I got it. Water bottle?
Anyway. Have to wait until I get home on this one.
Wha-? You’re not a horrible human being, Jeff. Just a human being. And so what?
Depression sucks. The best way to get out of it is to exercise, kinda difficult with a throbbing index finger though. Drinking it is, then!
Ironically, I’m only “depressed” when I come here and am greeted with such noxiousness. When I get out of my swivel chair, though, I’m dancing to Katrina and the Waves!
Jeez, did your kid already get sent to the principal? It’s only been what — 4 days?
But seriously, isn’t there anything fun to report on that front?
Sorry if the answer to my last query is in the podcast. I can’t access them.
I assume the noxiousness in question was from docweasel.
My take on what might be the common themes between the stories is obsession coupled with selective myopia for the main characters, and a callous disregard for others in the supporting characters. Furthermore, the callous disregard seems to feed the main character’s obsessions.
And I guess I was the noxious one. I certainly didn’t intend to be.
Looks like it’s just you and me, cranky.
You hunt?
Wow …
No, don’t hunt. Nothing against it, just never did it. I grew up in So-Cal. Not much hunting where I lived, unless you wanted coyotes.
I don’t hunt either if that helps. I kind of suck at the being quiet part.
The getting up really early part also turns me off.
You have a link for a text version? Kids, life, get in the way of listening to a podcast of any length.
We do it because we want to. And it’s an honor, really.
I don’t. There’s a .doc version in the “about” section, I think. But I’m on Mac, so I can’t even open it.
Thor’s buying.
But I’m on Mac, so I can’t even open it.
If you don’t want to do the Microsoft Office thing, NeoOffice works pretty well, and is free. It’ll read PowerPoint and Excel files as well as Word .doc files.
I stopped hunting 20 years ago, but I can jaw about it better than NASCAR. Maybe NASCAR would work better for you, happy.
Thanks SBP.
My sister is a NASCAR person. Intensely. Like she moved to where the NASCAR is to be closer to the NASCAR. She has had many NASCAR adventures and also hurricanes. I feel like it’s kind of her thing. Like I should have my own thing. Maybe I will get a thing next year. Not catch-wrestling or NASCAR cause those are already taken. Not cooking either cause I have no patience for it. Also I hate cutting vegetables and whisking things. Not scuba-diving either cause there’s a scuba place downstairs and sometimes I smoke kind of out front there and I see the people coming to get their tanks filled in their nice cars and sandals and suntans and just the whole thing where they’re being people who are getting scuba tanks filled in the middle of the goddamn day and I have vowed to myself that were I ever those people I would be of much more service and not just spend my days splishing about looking at the pretty fish.
My sister is a NASCAR person.
I went to a NASCAR thing once. You have to wear earphones. And it takes 3 hours to get out of the parking lot because 120,000 people go to those things.
My thing now is riding a bike on mountain railroads converted to bike trails. No noise and I don’t kill anything either.
She sits down in the middle mostly. Like the thing the cars are driving around and around. There’s a word for it but I forget.
oh yeah. Groupie.
How about birdwatching hf? Lotsa travel involved though, in the long term anyhow. On the other hand, apparently J McCain is an avid birdwatcher, so…oh, wait…
There is supposedly some birdwatching mecca in South Texas but I have never been. I like birds. I saw two hummingbirds chasing each other today on the way to work. I feel like I kinda got my fix. I would have a bird at home probably but I read they cause lung cancer.
That’s good she sits in the middle, happy. Because I heard someone call the groupies “Waffle Belly’s” because after they press against the chain link fence they have a waffle pattern on their stomach.
And don’t let anyone call your sister a Raceist, either.
That is very charitable really. I can think of other things to call them I think.
I liked both stories. Depressing yes, lives spiraling into the abyss. Lives that could be saved/repaired if only someone noticed and cared enough. The meticulous chaos of madness. They bring to mind The Heat Death of the Universe by Pamela Zoline, one of my all time favorites.
Thank you for the readings.
Themes?
• Alienation from “normal people.”
• The inability or unwillingness to embrace the faith or world view of one’s predecessors or larger community, given that it seems so inadequate or simplistic compared with the Big Questions, which are symbolized by the ambiguous death at the end of the story.
• Other people’s pain is usually not noticed, much less fathomed. When your life comes unhinged, you’re pretty much alone, pal, because people rarely have the depth or the interest to help you plumb the depths. (This same theme infuses What Dreams May Come, which deals with Other People’s Pain.)
I’d need to read a hard copy to ponder it further and get other junks out of it.
oh, maybe this explains the random crying today. well, I’ll run with it, I guess. thanks.
Jerf – fix your Hog On Ice link on the left bar – and he is a good read too.
To be honest, Alice’s obsession reminded me of SWMNBN, only less malignant. As I recall some of us joked about SWMNBN staring into the abyss, and the abyss staring back and getting scared.
I guess I’m just one of those people who have the “life’s too short” reflex when asked to plumb some depths. I’ve seen depths aplenty and I think I’m pretty well covered on that score.
Based on the comments, I probably won’t listen.
At the distinct risk of thoristicism, the angst of people who aren’t missing any meals bores me.
Regards,
Ric
Plenty of missed meals, Ric.
like the truncated tongues of snails…..
HF,
The first time I saw a humming bird, I was mowing the lawn. I thought it was a giant bee from Hell, coming to sting me to death. I junped off the lawn mower and ran as fast as I could.
My dad was not happy about having to winch the lawn mower out of the pond. I’m not sure how he felt about the humming bird, though.
Yes, but like the little girl with the tiny curl, when you’re good you’re very good, but when you’re bad you’re wonderful.