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Journal, Diary, & Blogging / Eight Dead People I Don't Care About. (Analysis)
I got into an argument today, concerning a certain destiny-driven death deliverer named Robert A. Hawkins. In a short time, he will be known as “that guy who killed eight people at that mall”, and I’m sure that not long after that, not remembered at all. The only difference between me and the rest of the world is that I don’t pretend to care before I forget. However, for now he is a fixture for conversation at the hellhole that pays me.
Two co-workers were discussing, to annoyingly great length, about the horrible world full of horrible people doing horrible things. Normally, this type of drivel doesn’t perturb me enough to join, but one of them (whose voice has me convinced that her mother was impregnated by a porpoise) squeaked about it loudly enough it was intruding into my Coldplay world, even with my iPod on maximum volume. By the time they got around to asking me what I thought of the whole thing, I was livid enough to express that my primary concern was whether the victims’ families would know what their perished loved ones had bought for them at the store before they got murdered.
I’ll be honest; I said it for shock value. But it IS awfully tough to get your hands on a Nintendo Wii right now, and it will be damn near impossible once every cretin has Christmas cash. So if Deadman Daddy didn’t get his hands on one that day, the poor kid probably won’t get one for another six months. You can’t deprive that little delinquent the joy of playing the newest gaming console while all his friends are laughing at him! He’s liable to grab Papaw’s gun and head to the nearest mall! Pete and Repeat walk into a food court…
Of course, I wasn’t about to give them my actual reasoning behind what I said, but years of dealing with idiocy pays off. Appalled, one of them snapped “Why would you think about something like that at a time like this?” I calmly explained that the killer’s goal was to get attention (go out with a bang was too easy a joke), and by having everyone discussing it, we were not only pandering to his sick goal, but were also giving credence to the idea and encouraging others to follow in his bloody footsteps.
Because my co-workers were personally chosen by Jane Goodall, I had to dumb it down a bit, but eventually they got the gist of my bullshit explanation and shut their goddamn mouths. Coldplay resumed.
When it’s not retarded rhetoric about the hottest piece of shit that the media is serving, it’s just sheer stupidity for sheer stupidity’s sake. It’s not their fault, the stupid bastards, but it’s mildly depressing when the focal point of a discussion in politics is that Hillary Clinton should be the next president because “it would be cool to see what happens”. Before I could somberly suggest we elect a hippopotamus for the same reason, Idiot #2 preemptively struck the winning blow by suggesting we would go to war every time she had a period. This is a man with a wife and two kids. And a trailer, obviously.
I keep forgetting you don’t know these “people”. Just assume unless otherwise stated that everyone I talk about from work is living in, currently renting, or being evicted from a wheel-based structure. One guy even walks around with the words “Git-R-Done!” scrawled on the back of his coat. It might as well read “I am going to die in a hunting accident.” When I shared that tidbit with my next door nitwit, I was informed that everyone has feelings. I didn’t bother replying that he probably numbs those feelings with a dirty thirty of Keystone.
I just put my headphones back on and drowned out the cacophony of ignorance until quitting time. Ironic, because by the end of the day, it always feels like it’s the perfect time to quit. General apathy prevents me from finding a new job, along with the fact that I’d probably just be replacing imbecilic ingrates with ingrate imbeciles.
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Bosco reviewed Version 2 -
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Hello,
I enjoyed this piece, you have a very conversational style which is direct and creates a quick rapport with the reader. I liked the voicing of fairly controversial opinions, it made a pleasant change from the p.c police. For all this I found the tone so negative and sarcastic as to be unbalanced. I’ve worked all those shit jobs and there’s always something positive in every situation. I think this absence of the bright side at all unbalances the piece and makes the writer seem a bit of a crank rather than someone the reader wishes to identify with.
Anyhow good write, good humour, nice and sharp.
Well done
Bosco
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aslistless_asme reviewed Version 2 -
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Sounds like the same sort of world I live in. Especially with the “Git-R-Done” shirt and trailers and such. I think Jane Goodall just picked the monkeys she could find and threw them in this town. I would have liked to hear more about the actual murders. I thought the path of the diction was going to eventually play that event out so it kind of left me hanging. Definitely like your descriptions though like “dirty thirty of Keystone,” “whose voice has me convinced that her mother was impregnated by a porpoise,”“etc.”
HeartLessBliss reviewed Version 2 -
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ammahaffey reviewed Version 2 -
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This is a piece that clearly shows your talent for vocabulary and overall story-telling. I do have an issue with the clarity, however. In just a short tidbit, we jumped from multiple scenes, and I found it hard to keep up. Also, I felt like it was a bit rushed. Why not indulge more in the moment?
HipStar reviewed Version 2 -
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So, at first reading this I didn’t see that it was under journaling and blogging, so i was reading it as a fictional story…..and I thought, this really isn’t good fiction.
But as truth and as what you actually think and believe, I say brilliant.
I’m jealous of how amazingly you put your thoughts into words.
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sSeton reviewed Version 2 -
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Well, you do have a certain mastery of the english language. I like that – your rhetoric weeds out the people who won’t get your point. Towards the end of this I felt let down, like it could’ve led to something greater but it just died out.
This piece is insightful and intelligent, but that gets watered down by the very familiar phrases such as “I keep forgetting you don’t know these “people.””
I’m not sure how this falls into the “review” category—a review on humanity?
p.s.- The line about Jane Goodall is very abstract; I’ve never heard of that view (basically that she has sub-par intelligence) so that comment might get lost on a few people.
imara219 reviewed Version 2 -
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I think you should be careful because instead of being witty, sharp, and intelligent. I’m getting that you are a poser, insensitive, and annoying. I only feel that way because of how you presented your perspective. Your writing should be sharper and on point if you are going to discuss this topic the way you trying to do. For example, “whose voice has me convinced that her mother was impregnated by a porpoise),” this could have been a great descriptive sentence; instead it comes off as flat. Humor is objective, but I didn’t see the humor, the imagery was not appealing, and the sentence doesn’t exactly flow. Also, the next scene, or the conversation over your IPOD didn’t translate very well. I didn’t really feel as if you grabbed and described what was going on in your head. I didn’t get a sense that you were properly talking about why you felt the way that you felt. So it seems insensitive instead of profound or provocative. When you finally stated your motive for your behavior, it was an improvement b/c as a reader you were finally giving me some insight.
dwallace reviewed Version 2 -
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The title made me read it but I wasn’t engaged/changed/entertained by the rest anymore than most blogs. The tone you have chosen is overwhelming in the world of personal rants. Find your own voice.
That being said, I feel the way you do at work and laughed at the Jane Goodall line.
Lil_Red_Writer reviewed Version 2 -
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Spoken fluidly, intelligently and above all rationally! Very few of us can honestly take the time to look at a situation for what it truly is, the human race is stupid and it does not take a psychological genius to find the reasoning behind a person’s actions. The bit about Hillary Clinton is what I expect from most Americans. Instead of electing a man who could change America for the better, the Super Delegates will vote for Hillary regardless of Obama’s popularity and then fast forward to her becoming madame president, that’s when I’ll be moving to Tokyo. It is rare nowadays to find a fellow countryman who has equal brain capacity or the will to learn outside of Fox News, and it is only a downward spiral from here because a country is only as smart as it’s leader now take a look at Bush! Need say more?
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