tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post7058173096123130283..comments2023-05-14T21:11:23.699-04:00Comments on CHEESEBURGER BROWN: Story Wallah: Exiled from ElsewhereCheeseburger Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01384136287767500794noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-40118381873499913492010-09-20T10:47:23.135-04:002010-09-20T10:47:23.135-04:00Ah, THERE's my swirling vortex of doom! I won...Ah, THERE's my swirling vortex of doom! I wondered why it wasn't at the client site today.Sheik Yerboutinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-1341339413325841232010-09-19T03:24:06.772-04:002010-09-19T03:24:06.772-04:00http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/09/epic_pape...http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/09/epic_papercraft_funnel.htmlTolomeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16384928311920896699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-49180567671540964632010-09-10T04:12:20.262-04:002010-09-10T04:12:20.262-04:00It's not literal I guess, but seems the implie...It's not literal I guess, but seems the implied passage/predicate is: What do you do... (for a living)?<br />I do a lot of stuff that nobody, myself included, really wants to hear about. But I guess if someone asks, I'll tell them what I do 'for a living', which beats watching them politely excuse themselves from my presence.<br /><br />I cannot handle 'working' in precisely one capacity/field. I must work in two capacities. I also cannot work in three or more capacities, even though sometimes think I can do so, but invariably I end up only working in two capacities and ignoring the additional capacities. If I were in your shoes, working and moonlighting, I wouldn't really be able to do anything else until one of them slackened off.<br /><br />A writer is someone who writes? I'm guessing actual 'writers' can pretend to not be writers, even deliberately preventing themselves from writing, but that probably doesn't last. At some point perhaps 'being a writer' will be declared an official psychological dysfunction? :)fooburgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00598732577922981025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-34701397271884033372010-09-06T13:18:03.148-04:002010-09-06T13:18:03.148-04:00Being a writer isn't so much what you do as wh...Being a writer isn't so much what you do as who you are.<br /><br />As one of your readers, I've definitely missed your work during this dry spell. But for you the writer? Given everything you've written--stories, commentary, metacommentary, it doesn't sound like something you can stop being. Certainly not after just 6 months.<br /><br />Great to hear you're starting to sleep, and dream.nicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-73000842920691169822010-08-31T19:55:36.588-04:002010-08-31T19:55:36.588-04:00CBB,
Welcome back. So glad to hear you are the m...CBB,<br /><br />Welcome back. So glad to hear you are the mend. I am also deeply grateful to now be able to tell people I do "creative" accounting. No. Wait. That gets people put in jail. I choose optimum sub-thingies from a set of hoo-dads and um, well I don't have your flair for words or even that good of a memory but dammit I feel better about what I do (for a living).<br /><br />And moreso than the above, I am STOKED at the distant promise of seeing Mr. Miss finally arrive at time/point zero.<br /><br />Sleep well.<br /><br />-k-Smiley Knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-51568183078174182052010-08-30T22:32:54.593-04:002010-08-30T22:32:54.593-04:00You will always be a writer, and you will always b...You will always be a writer, and you will always be an artist. Those are things that go on in your head whether you are able to let them out or not.<br /> <br />I love that everyone was here to greet you, to remind you what you give; having readers certainly strengthens the case for one being a writer.<br /><br />I look forward to you being able to write your stories again. I love your stories too.*littlestar.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-25065195258631884632010-08-30T12:59:47.904-04:002010-08-30T12:59:47.904-04:00Woohoo! Thank you for not leaving us at the nadir...Woohoo! Thank you for not leaving us at the nadir of your journey (like Teddy, I was imagining all sorts of unpleasant endings to this post).<br /><br />Bridget: yes, fezzes ARE cool... even if your someday-to-be significant other feels (violently) otherwise.<br /><br />Welcome back, CBB. Monday just got a little bit brighter.Sheik Yerboutinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-50075346792633245062010-08-30T11:35:10.577-04:002010-08-30T11:35:10.577-04:00Thanks John, thanks pso, Bridget, Mark, SaintPeter...Thanks John, thanks pso, Bridget, Mark, SaintPeter, Teddy, Tolomea, daedahl, Mike and Ross. Them's encouraging words. Thanks for taking the time.<br /><br />I've now slept four nights in a row. I'm on a roll.<br /><br />Yours,<br />CBBCheeseburger Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01384136287767500794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-85941923340707756432010-08-30T00:09:10.120-04:002010-08-30T00:09:10.120-04:00CBB, I've never chimed in here before as I gen...CBB, I've never chimed in here before as I generally have nothing original to add to the conversation. My preferred method of creation is musical in nature, unlike most here who seem to be of the literary persuasion (Look at me, trying to sound like a writer). <br /><br />Like SaintPeter, I am and always have been your Reader. I've read almost every word you've penned (typed?) since Darth Side hit Slashdot and frequently describe you as my favorite author to anyone who asks. I am so relieved to know that you still have the desire to continue your work here. I was beginning to fear the worst. <br /><br />Thank you for sharing your creations with me, and I wish you the best of luck with your "recovery."Rossnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-33206040294535933242010-08-29T13:03:32.919-04:002010-08-29T13:03:32.919-04:00To get my "groove" back all I had to do ...To get my "groove" back all I had to do was sell all my posessions, move across the ocean, get a new job, find a new apartment, and buy a new bed. Then I could sleep soundly for 8 hours a night. Then I started to feel like myself again.<br /><br />Boring jobs and stress kill the mind. Sleep is the antidote, but stress kills sleep too. It's kind of unfair.Mike Verdonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13638359196609476290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-1901735209322875872010-08-29T12:36:27.249-04:002010-08-29T12:36:27.249-04:00I'm just so happy you're back.I'm just so happy you're back.daedahlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-71611217880314602012010-08-29T02:34:35.792-04:002010-08-29T02:34:35.792-04:00I work with code. It's what I do. And it's...I work with code. It's what I do. And it's what I've always done.<br />Generally I get paid to work with code. But I've always figured that if I couldn't get paid to work the code then I'd do it as a hobby instead.<br /><br />I've always recognized that I have to code. My brain must have that form of exercise to keep it working right, otherwise bad things happen. <br /><br />A few years back I learnt an interesting an important lesson about me and code.<br /><br />Due to monetary pressures I ended up in a bad job, a job that had the same relationship to coding that working in a MacDonalds kitchen has to cooking.<br /><br />Given the above you'd probably assume that I went home in the evenings and did 'real' coding, certainly that's what I would have expected me to do. But that's not what happened, in the evenings I couldn't face coding at all so instead I went bat shit crazy / depressed.<br /><br />And that went on for a year or so.<br /><br />Anyway what I'm trying to say here is that I somewhat understand the particular purgatory that you have found, and I hope you find your way out of there good and fast. Because that place is bad.Tolomeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16384928311920896699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-63742315846170895732010-08-29T01:58:00.592-04:002010-08-29T01:58:00.592-04:00"Now when I close my eyes all I see are vario..."Now when I close my eyes all I see are various bills in various states of delinquency. Now in idle moments I look to be distracted out of my head."<br /><br />I remember you commentating on how you would come up with your stories on the way to work, daydreaming your way through the commute. Reading the above quote, you basically saying that the daydreams that produced all of your incredible stories just won't come anymore - it was like a mental knife.<br /><br />I hate to sound so sentimental, but the things you've written really do mean a lot to a lot of people, including me, and hearing that I was incredibly worried that you were saying there wouldn't be any more. It got dark in there man, I thought it was a cave ending in a resignation letter.<br /><br />I find it rather fitting that it all starts to turn smiley and okay again with the announcement that you've been getting sleep good enough to dream in. Night dreams power day dreams power written dreams power read dreams. Thank your doctor for me, okay?<br /><br />Good to hear from you again, btw. You were missed.<br /><br />TRH<br /><br />Wordveri: Molest. Really? Fuck you too, Google.Teddynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-26532123417178692692010-08-29T01:43:33.412-04:002010-08-29T01:43:33.412-04:00oops, subscribed.oops, subscribed.SaintPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02064605142705446251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-25354777251212345882010-08-29T01:42:58.317-04:002010-08-29T01:42:58.317-04:00You may question if you are a writer, I have no do...You may question if you are a writer, I have no doubts that I am your Reader. Ever, god forbid, you never composed another sentence of prose, I will still be your Reader. What you have written, and what you write strikes a chord deep inside me. Your work resonates with me. It fills me up and leaves me sated. <br /><br />RE: Sleep<br />I've found, through hard experimentation, that the world is much easier with a "full night" sleep. I read a description of being on anti-depressants as not changing one's view of the world, as much as making the world seem nicer. I think sleep is the same way. <br /><br />Anyway, take your time. I'll be waiting.SaintPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02064605142705446251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-36454325359383962362010-08-29T01:01:12.944-04:002010-08-29T01:01:12.944-04:00Boy, I could have written this. I mean, not nearl...Boy, I could have written this. I mean, not nearly as well, but with the same general theme.<br /><br />That particular Felix story you mention is one of my favorite CBB stories. Just recently I went back and read one of my stories I published online and couldn't stop until I finished it. I almost felt I was reading someone else's work.<br /><br />I hated to see the blog format dying, and it discouraged me to the point of almost stopping my own efforts at production on both my personal and fiction blogs.<br /><br />I'm hoping that at least the serial novel can continue, and of course my favorite source for that is you. You, good, kind, overworked CBB, were my inspiration to get back into writing and to actually finish works by publishing each section as I wrote. Many a night I woke at the keyboard, the letter "D" or one of its neighbors repeated for several lines thanks to my sleeping fingers.<br /><br />That level of sleep deprivation was the top reason I stopped writing for so long -- once I was in a groove, I just couldn't stop. If we don't get enough sleep, it doesn't matter what else we do to stay healthy.<br /><br />Whether or not you publish anything else out here again, take care of yourself. If publishing out here again contributes to that, then all the better.Markhttp://blog.markwill.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-72521579549875442552010-08-28T23:06:42.911-04:002010-08-28T23:06:42.911-04:00We're here, CBB.
It interesting you should ta...We're here, CBB.<br /><br />It interesting you should talk about sleep. I'm watching someone I love very much finally, blissfully sleep. REALLY sleep, like he hasn't done in years. What it does for him when he's awake again is miraculous.<br /><br />Humans are silly things, and really do need to go unconscious for a good 6-8 hours out of every 24. Some might call that a weakness of humans. I say shut up and stop arguing with thousands of years of evolution. It's done us pretty well so far.<br /><br />We're still here, because we like what you write, We like what you have written and what you will write. (See what I did there, with that tense thing? Tenses, like fezzes and Fucking Deadwood, are cool.)<br /><br />*mwah* to you and all of yours. Get some sleep. We'll be here when you wake up.Bridgethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07259309555394112308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-62274643966755833302010-08-28T15:48:45.535-04:002010-08-28T15:48:45.535-04:00Glad to see you back! Missing my regular dose of ...Glad to see you back! Missing my regular dose of CBB was starting to make ME grumpy too.<br /><br />One great thing about serialized fiction that I've discovered in your absence is that the forced pacing of the blog format is good. If I'm reading a novel, I'm temped to drop everything and just read all the time, which is unhealthy in all sorts of ways.psonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-37800976698450553612010-08-28T14:38:23.289-04:002010-08-28T14:38:23.289-04:00There are two kinds of people in the world. Those ...There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who produce, and those who consume. Most people are sometimes producers, and sometimes consumers. I freely admit that in the arena of literature, I am a consumer. I have no shame and no aspirations towards production. And as a consumer, I miss your production. I'm glad that your production neurons are recovering :)Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17680056990468177565noreply@blogger.com