TV, batshit a-holes, what I'm working on.

[wednes]

Finally started watching Breaking Bad. My brother loaned me the first season, and I'm gonna watch the season finale tomorrow. Odd to be getting into a new show just as the fall TV season begins, but that's just how it worked out. Walt's wife is a vile bitch.

In further TV news, I'm now getting paid to write about this season's Dexter, American Horror Story, and Boardwalk Empire. This means that ALL of our cable is now a business expense including HBO and Showtime), instead of just the internet. So big Yay for that!

Commissions are still trickling in. That's great and all, but if I ever want to see the inside of a dentists office again, they'll have to send a lot more work my way. I do like PayPal's record keeping interface thusfar.

In my own news, I'm about half-past give-a-shit with certain kinds of fuckery. I was actually called a liar on the internets recently, and told that I was making up mean things about a certain religion because I hate certain people and want to destroy them. Sadly, this comes from someone I actually know in real life who went as far as to say How am I supposed to explain to my children that you hate us???. I suppose the same way you explain all the other crazy shit you've hallucinated. Even if it were true, it wouldn't be any crazier than animals on a boat not eating each other on a long voyage.
I can only conclude that they've gone batshit, or that they've always been batshit and I just never noticed. Even though I'm pissed about it, I don't see a point in trying to convince anyone that it isn't true. Not only do religions need no help from ME to sound batshit, but the religions themselves are all equally annoying--the variance comes from the practitioners.

Fuckery #2 would be the whole Show and Tell with the Family Finances bullshit. I'm amazed at how many people think "discussing my writing career" means I'm supposed to tell them all about how much money I make, what my contracts say, or what my cut of this or that is. On what fucking planet is that considered polite discourse? And I'm certainly not giving that information to anyone with the audacity to ask me to borrow money. In the end, I'm torn between wanting to be understanding and compassionate, and telling people to quit being such selfish assholes. Plus I have that weird issue where if I think someone is trying to impress me, it makes me want to punch them in the face.

Writing: The Finster Effect is off to the publisher who is putting a hawk-eyed editor on that shit. Edits to A Stabbing for Sadie begin soon since they want the manuscript by the end of the month. KMLYLM edits will be next, and pretty minimal.
Gonna try to do a new Stig and the Puppetman comic every month. If you've not downloaded the FREE comic it appears in Resilient Brainforest is up for the grabbing.
Also gearing up to write my first non-fiction book, which is largely shrouded in mystery. Gonna NaNoWriMo that shit, just as a matter of scheduling convenience.

Comments

[groovesinorbit]

I was actually surprised that you brought up what you did on FB about that religion, knowing you had a friend who was a churchmember. In my experience, they do a lot of logic twisting to avoid dealing with all the batshit. I mean, how else do you comprehend their afterlife doctrine, for one thing (or that their founder was nothing but a con artist with a thing for teenaged girls). Although, yes, just as crazy as arks full of vegetarian animals and talking snakes.

My parents, when they lived in Utah, always said something along the lines of the church itself sucks rocks, but a lot of the people are quite nice. Same could be said for every religion.

[wednes]

Yeah, well, I also have family who is Catholic. If one's faith is so tenuous that someone mentioning a politician twisting it is unbearable...well, what can I say?

This is my proteges mom too. Sad times. But my self-esteem is simply not low enough to let a comment like "how am I supposed to explain to my children that you hate us?" slip by without comment. That is fuckery of the highest order--and exactly the kind of "Woe is we, who are so oppressed" bullshit that I hear constantly on the news.

After I apologized and explained (again) that I was talking about Romney and not them, and about bastardizing a tennent of the faith and not calling all Mormons liars--she accused me of lying. In fact, she said it outright that she didn't believe me. With that in mind, I invited her to kiss the fattest part of my ass. But apparently SHE found ME rude.

Get that? "How do I tell my children you hate us" is fair discourse, but "kiss my ass if you're calling me a liar" is too rude to bear, apparently.

Oddly, the whole thing reminds me of why I so seldom make friends with women. Far too many of them behave just like that. I find that I do much better having guy friends, or being friends with women who also are not typically friends with women.

[groovesinorbit]

Agreed on the fuckery and the "oh woe is me" crap. No religion is innocent of stupidity or even murder (yeah, I know. Don't be shocked. ;). It seems like something that everyone has to come to terms with if they're going to be a member of any church. I wonder if that woman knows about the Mountain Meadows Massacre or Porter Rockwell, for example. Old history, but still, her church was responsible. My favorite in modern times, was the LDS president who had a vision that, whaddaya know, Black people are actually human in 19-fucking-78. Little Mrs. LDS can kiss my ass, too.

I've noticed that the more overtly feminist women I befriend, the less trouble I have with that sort of thing. ;)

[wednes]

Ha! Well, you know I have issues with certain hardcore feminists too. They can be remarkably judgmental once they find out that I find Tosh and Seth MacFarlane funny.

[groovesinorbit]

Well, what fun is it if you agree on everything? ;)

[wednes]

I am reminded of a Simpsons quote:

Chalmers (To Edna and Skinner): I guess you two will just have to agree to disagree.

Skinner: I don't agree to that.

Edna: Neither do I!

[groovesinorbit]

Simpsons quotes are always good. :)