Marc
On Yugoslavia:
Everything that I've recently read about this former European nation/current half-assed conglomeration of Serbian peoples has lead me to conclude one thing, and one thing only -- Yugoslavian people, whether they be Croats or Serbs or Bosnian Muslims or Kosovoans or Slovenes or Macedonians or Cetniks or que-ev, are all crazy. That's it. They're nuts. I'm not a huge American patriot, but I will have to say, quite honestly, that I am glad that I was born here where people seem less crazy than they do elsewhere. I know what you're thinking, how ethnocentric of you, Marc, you fucking buffoon. You haven't been through these books, man. They're all nuts. The only analogy that I can come up with is people from Illinois killing people from Iowa at will because they looked at each other cock-eyed, and next you know the entire country is being torn apart and Virginia is annexing parts of Ohio because, supposedly, it used to be part of Greater Virginia back in the colonial days, and all the while people are claiming to actually believe that they still think Ohio should be part of Virginia, like they've always thought that, and no matter how many years they've spent under either US rule, or British colonial rule, or French fur-trader rule, it should still, God damn it!, be part of Virginia because that's the way it was!. Insane.
On Workshopping My First Creative Writing Piece, Fiction:
There's a comment that someone wrote at the end of my paper that I feel I should share with everyone -- "I couldn't get excited about this piece if a naked girl jumped out of it holding a Bud Light". Chraming. Really charming. That, of course, came from TheGuyWhoOnlyKnowsHowToBeMean, which wasn't too suprising, I suppose, as he didn't talk at all during class while we were workshopping my piece. For the most part, I felt pretty good about the rest of the comments. Most everyone else commented on how they liked it, and yadda-yadda-yadda. I love getting in there and finding out what people I respect think about it, cause their opinions are the ones I tend to base my revisions off of, and both the professor and this doctoral student (the one with the office next to Zach's) made some very valuable critiques. When and if I revise it, hopefully sometime soon, I'll re-post it at that other site I had at one point.
On Madden 2003 by EA Sports:
I'm in the playoffs! Thank you. I appreciate the support. You don't know how much I needed it. I've already beaten the Falcons (10-6) in the Wild Card round, and am patiently waiting to see who my opponent in the division semi-finals is going to be. I'm hoping it's not my roommate Luke, who runs the Sealab 2021 Octopi (16-0). He went undefeated, which means that he's beaten me twice during the regular season, and twice last season, and pretty much every other time we've played an exhibition game except when I made him be the Houston Texans and I got to be the All Pro 2001 team. I barely pulled off a win there, but I've got some ideas for this next game. He's a one trick pony, basically, when it comes to his offensive schemes. Without his star quarterback, Donovan McNabb (who's been injured for the past seven weeks), he's been limited in his scrambling potential, which is nearly impossible to stop. He's instead had to rely on either the run or the pass to his one (and only) receiving target, Marcus Robinson. But I think I've figured him out. The run doesn't bother me. I've got a decent defensive line, and an alright core of linebackers that were fairly successful during the season at shutting down the run by pretty much every team (3rd least yards given up in the NFL). What Luke does that hurts me is put Robinson in the slot on a three receiver formation, thus creating a mismatch between his star wide receiver and a usually much slower linebacker. My adjustment is simple. I go in to the Nickel formation and switch my good cornerback, Deltha O'Neal, from the right side of the ball to the slot, moving Jerry Azumah over. This way, I've got a speedy, competent back on Robinson everytime I see Luke breaking into that formation. I hope the plan works. I'm sure you'll hear about it if it doesn't.
On People In General:
People are alright, sometimes.
On Yugoslavia:
Everything that I've recently read about this former European nation/current half-assed conglomeration of Serbian peoples has lead me to conclude one thing, and one thing only -- Yugoslavian people, whether they be Croats or Serbs or Bosnian Muslims or Kosovoans or Slovenes or Macedonians or Cetniks or que-ev, are all crazy. That's it. They're nuts. I'm not a huge American patriot, but I will have to say, quite honestly, that I am glad that I was born here where people seem less crazy than they do elsewhere. I know what you're thinking, how ethnocentric of you, Marc, you fucking buffoon. You haven't been through these books, man. They're all nuts. The only analogy that I can come up with is people from Illinois killing people from Iowa at will because they looked at each other cock-eyed, and next you know the entire country is being torn apart and Virginia is annexing parts of Ohio because, supposedly, it used to be part of Greater Virginia back in the colonial days, and all the while people are claiming to actually believe that they still think Ohio should be part of Virginia, like they've always thought that, and no matter how many years they've spent under either US rule, or British colonial rule, or French fur-trader rule, it should still, God damn it!, be part of Virginia because that's the way it was!. Insane.
On Workshopping My First Creative Writing Piece, Fiction:
There's a comment that someone wrote at the end of my paper that I feel I should share with everyone -- "I couldn't get excited about this piece if a naked girl jumped out of it holding a Bud Light". Chraming. Really charming. That, of course, came from TheGuyWhoOnlyKnowsHowToBeMean, which wasn't too suprising, I suppose, as he didn't talk at all during class while we were workshopping my piece. For the most part, I felt pretty good about the rest of the comments. Most everyone else commented on how they liked it, and yadda-yadda-yadda. I love getting in there and finding out what people I respect think about it, cause their opinions are the ones I tend to base my revisions off of, and both the professor and this doctoral student (the one with the office next to Zach's) made some very valuable critiques. When and if I revise it, hopefully sometime soon, I'll re-post it at that other site I had at one point.
On Madden 2003 by EA Sports:
I'm in the playoffs! Thank you. I appreciate the support. You don't know how much I needed it. I've already beaten the Falcons (10-6) in the Wild Card round, and am patiently waiting to see who my opponent in the division semi-finals is going to be. I'm hoping it's not my roommate Luke, who runs the Sealab 2021 Octopi (16-0). He went undefeated, which means that he's beaten me twice during the regular season, and twice last season, and pretty much every other time we've played an exhibition game except when I made him be the Houston Texans and I got to be the All Pro 2001 team. I barely pulled off a win there, but I've got some ideas for this next game. He's a one trick pony, basically, when it comes to his offensive schemes. Without his star quarterback, Donovan McNabb (who's been injured for the past seven weeks), he's been limited in his scrambling potential, which is nearly impossible to stop. He's instead had to rely on either the run or the pass to his one (and only) receiving target, Marcus Robinson. But I think I've figured him out. The run doesn't bother me. I've got a decent defensive line, and an alright core of linebackers that were fairly successful during the season at shutting down the run by pretty much every team (3rd least yards given up in the NFL). What Luke does that hurts me is put Robinson in the slot on a three receiver formation, thus creating a mismatch between his star wide receiver and a usually much slower linebacker. My adjustment is simple. I go in to the Nickel formation and switch my good cornerback, Deltha O'Neal, from the right side of the ball to the slot, moving Jerry Azumah over. This way, I've got a speedy, competent back on Robinson everytime I see Luke breaking into that formation. I hope the plan works. I'm sure you'll hear about it if it doesn't.
On People In General:
People are alright, sometimes.
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