Entries Tagged 'utterly obvious conclusions' ↓
I’d rather not say how much time I’ve spent watching this:
Benjamin Parzybok — May 17th, 2009 — utterly obvious conclusions
Tweekers and thieves – FYI
Benjamin Parzybok — December 12th, 2008 — public service announcement, utterly obvious conclusions
Love the TV placement – really completes the pic.
On taking off all my clothes, starting tomorrow
Benjamin Parzybok — November 13th, 2008 — couch, on tour, reading, utterly obvious conclusions
I asked a friend advice on giving a reading, since I do my first tomorrow and he said:
“At an early reading in the 70s at my publisher’s house in Vancouver, B.C., I was so anxious I drank a little too much, took off all my clothers except under shorts in front of the audience and about a third of the way through threw my loose-leaf manuscript out over the heads of the audience screaming that it was a bunch of fucking shit and lies…the adrenalin of some fear is good, gives you an edge.”
In case you were wondering what to expect should you happen to attend a reading.
I remember seeing Dave Eggers read – he had the audience diagnose a problem with his leg (night tremors) and then he brought an exercise coach out and we all did a bit of a workout. That might be more my style. I’ve been calling around town to see if I could get a therapist to travel with me, in case we need to diagnose any madness in the audience. I also might play a game or two of bingo, or challenge someone to leg wrestle. No one can beat me at leg wrestling. No one. I’m just saying.
Why does a search for podium aerodynamics turn up almost nothing?!
Peter Fogtdal - who is on tour now – is an impressive reader. I would classify it as about 38% insane, contradicting himself schizophrenically every third sentence. It was a great performance.
Laura bought me a black button shirt with little pin stripes that mesmerize me. So that’s probably what I’ll wear, and subsequently remove at the pinnacle of the performance. I’m also considering a hat, maybe this, or this?
If anyone else has any reading tips for me – please say!
The key to my heart
Benjamin Parzybok — October 16th, 2008 — utterly obvious conclusions
Here it is. In case of emergency.
public service announcement
Benjamin Parzybok — September 30th, 2008 — utterly obvious conclusions
You know what to do, people.
The map
Benjamin Parzybok — August 29th, 2008 — utterly obvious conclusions
The important thing was to understand the map. To know which rooms contained trolls, and in which cubicles orcs slept at their keyboards. He studied the photocopy he’d unpinned from the hallway bulletin board.
KNOW YOUR ROUTE
Escape Routes for Building 1, Second Floor
He found his cube and drew a rough approximation of himself in it: a class 2 wizard with brown corduroy pants, a gray t-shirt and what appeared to be a short magic wand in his hand, or possibly it was a USB thumb drive containing all of, and the only copy of, the company’s source code for the last eighteen months. The source code to the long-awaited release of ‘Anti-Demonic Toolbox, v6.0 beta‘.
