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Fragment in The Irresistible Urge to Write
“I don’t know why they thought I’d be more likely to listen to you.” I met her gaze in the rear mirror; watched her lashes come down in kevlar shutters over the windows to her soul. Cutting me ou...
In the mirror (facebook repost) in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
I was more upset than I expected when I realised that, money aside, I was not going to own a GT 86– that as a family man, it wasn’t happening. It took me a long time to process that and figure o...
Note: National Day, Singapore in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
I’m going to open with the concept of love, because that’s what patriotism is– the love for one’s country. Some people with nothing better to do will argue “no it’s not. There are so many forms o...
In Transit in The irresistible Urge To Play with Light
I want to state that this is a purely personal opinion, but I am becoming more and more convinced that it is in movement and joy that we express the beauty of our human nature, rather than in the...
PTSD in The Irresistible Urge to Write
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Why do you fight? in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
I’ve occasionally been asked: why do you waste time fighting people who are clearly just out to cause trouble? Usually I get some platitude about how the lion is unconcerned with the opinion of ...
There is a crushing and terrible loneliness in knowing, rightly or wrongly, that there ain’t no thing like you, except you. (This is in fact quite a common malady of youth.) Fortunately, few of u...
Ladder in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
You can spend your time always looking up , seeing the best in humanity; you can seek it out in yourself a million times and fall short a million times, but at least you emerge a better person th...
From a conversation in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
H: I don’t understand these people. I see them, I know what they’re doing, but I don’t understand. Me: Sometimes understanding is not about walking in their shoes. Me: Sometimes understanding is ...
Random in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Sometimes learning all the words in your vocabulary serve only to teach you this: That sometimes words are not enough, that silence flows and fills the gaps where words cannot fit, that far more ...
It's not a rich man's world in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
A quick calculation, assuming a wage of 8 bucks an hour (comparing me to a cab driver, since I was, at my lowest vocation rank, a heavy truck driver), shows that the army should have paid me in t...
Bait and switch in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
A friend of mine at uni was a very butch member of the local LGB society. Around Christmas, this was our conversation after about four beers: Her: I’m still trying to figure out how to tell my pa...
Game plan in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
How far away were you when this happened? Five metres? Ten at the most? Eight steps. Then you were never in danger. Next time, the moment a single one of them touches you, you shout. I will re...
By now. I think it’s obvious that my outfit of choice at conventions is Dante. Fig 1 A bit old-school now, not at the cutting edge of fashionable games and shows. Kind of like your dad’s old cre...
*headdesk* in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Genetics is powerful. Like both her parents before her, Xueling has discovered the joys of stapling herself.
Beads (Facebook note) in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
The real question is not what you can claim to be [by their standards]. The [real] question is why are we behaving like the fawning sycophants of the popular kids who get to decide who is in or ...
Hard E Har in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Sometimes the only reason we laugh at someone’s joke is because it’s the only socially acceptable way we know of saying What the fuck is wrong with you?”
Messenger in The Irresistible Urge to Write
“It’s me.” “Yes, I recognise your voice.” “So did you get my message?” “Who was she?” “Nobody important. The message?” “I received it.” “Then maybe she’ll get better. And what have you decided?” ...
Be a MAN. Do MANLY things. in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
RR: What defines ‘masculinity’? What do you think is ‘manly’? Come, I need all comments, in regards to this. What are your thoughts? (for an academic paper) Me: Looking at it as a writer, I thin...
Dreams in The Irresistible Urge to Write
Lyon: …I’m still an entertainer and always will be… and I’ve persuaded myself I do at least as much good as tranquilisers. Everyone can go where their mind takes them. You can live in imaginary ...
So now we come to Cosfest Christmas, run by the same guys. Given that I like to document beauty Fig 1 Which I hasten to add, is a specific beauty, of humanity in general. Fig 2 Of the beauty th...
Ranma newhalf in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Me: You know how you’ve observed that I prefer non-girly girls, and how I seem to have a fascination for red hair? Caffeine: suspiciously Yes? Me: So I found my dream girl. Caffeine: Well, that ...
What's good for the goose.... in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
I could probably open an entire new book on these: Saw this: and my first thought was because when you need them you’re hovering by your messenger and they don’t know you need them yet and my se...
Cards against the huge manatee in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
I finally saw Cards against Humanity. I looked at the options for about five minutes and then I closed the tab. Way I see it, it’s fridge magnet poetry, except that instead of making poetry, you’...
*INCOHERENT SCREAMING* in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
DEAR MICROSOFT WHY IS THERE NO STRAIGHTFORWARD WAY TO ENSURE FORMATTING CONSISTENCY WHEN OPENING THE FILE ON SOMEONE ELSE’S COMPUTER YOU PIECE OF SILICON VALLEY LAPUTA. Ok, I’m done. Back to work...
