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FlyingWarhorse
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SiticHybrid wrote:
FlyingWarhorse wrote:
Dixie_Wolf wrote:
I thought you guys might appreciate this, from last night's episode of The Walking Dead:
Squirrel Gif


The Boondock Saints really let themselves go!


and that gives me and idea for... wait for it...

the boondock squirrels


And this has just reminded me of a dream I had when I was younger. My family and I had went to the movies and were on our way back. I saw a squirrel as we were heading home from the car window. Then, when we made it home, we all got out of the car, and I saw the same squirrel detach itself from under the car and bare its vampire fangs before turning into a vampire and chasing us into the house. Fortunately, we made it in through the door and were waiting while dad went to get his guns. While staring at the demonic little ball of fluff through the glass of the door, I woke up.

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SiticHybrid
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FlyingWarhorse wrote:
SiticHybrid wrote:
FlyingWarhorse wrote:
Dixie_Wolf wrote:
I thought you guys might appreciate this, from last night's episode of The Walking Dead:
Squirrel Gif


The Boondock Saints really let themselves go!


and that gives me and idea for... wait for it...

the boondock squirrels


And this has just reminded me of a dream I had when I was younger. My family and I had went to the movies and were on our way back. I saw a squirrel as we were heading home from the car window. Then, when we made it home, we all got out of the car, and I saw the same squirrel detach itself from under the car and bare its vampire fangs before turning into a vampire and chasing us into the house. Fortunately, we made it in through the door and were waiting while dad went to get his guns. While staring at the demonic little ball of fluff through the glass of the door, I woke up.


I"ve been stalked by a squirrel in real life before.

Creepy experience that.

I seriously need to download a decent photo manipulation program so i can start figuring out how to do this stuff.

cause i'd love to post a slendersquirrel picture here.

everything is funnier squirreled

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Soleil
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 		uh, i chose my name because, I....like the...Sun?
Well, it gives life to the world and stuff.

Ok to be more sincere I chose the name Soleil because I do adore the sun and all of its metaphors, but also it reminds me vaguely of the Nordic Rune Soelu (oh god spelling?0 and of people I care about.

I am sad that i cannot watch walking dead because i don't have tv and AMC (i think?) hasn't put it online, barring episode 1 Sad

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SiticHybrid wrote:
FlyingWarhorse wrote:
The Boondock Saints really let themselves go!


and that gives me and idea for... wait for it...

the boondock squirrels


Sean Patrick Flanery moreso than Norman Reedus. I saw him getting eaten by a bear on Syfy not too long ago. Tsk, tsk.
I think if The Boondock Saints went the direction of gun-toting squirrels, it would cease to be my favorite movie. Probably. Maybe.


Since we're talking about screen names, I mentioned it in the main thread, but mine's from a He Is Legend song. "Dixie Wolf (The Seduction Of...)" is the title of it. It's like a fairy tale gone horribly, horribly wrong! Smile

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SiticHybrid wrote:

cause i'd love to post a slendersquirrel picture here.


Sitic!! Stop it man. Why is it always you giving me ideas?





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 		It's cute and creepy at the same time!

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 		I missed the nerd/geek qualifications. ; . ; I'll just say I'm a big SF nerd and am planning to go into Physics. (Mira- I LOVE Heinlein!)

And my screen name is from a canceled TV show called Kings. I just liked the quote.

I have been trying to read House of Leaves for about five months now and it's kicking my ass. How can you read through that and not get so horribly confused? I start reading one of his footnotes and will have forgotten everything by the end of it!

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I have been trying to read House of Leaves for about five months now and it's kicking my ass. How can you read through that and not get so horribly confused? I start reading one of his footnotes and will have forgotten everything by the end of it!



I bought House of Leaves not too long ago. I really want to read it, but I have another book to get through, and that one happens to be difficult for me...for some reason. Is House of Leaves really that difficult? I'm really into the deeply symbolic and creepy stuff with hidden meanings but, I'll be the first to admit I check the hell out of fan and theory sites just to understand the main plot. >_>

And is it wrong for me to think that Slendersquirrel would make an awesome pet?

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TheWorld wrote:
I bought House of Leaves not too long ago. I really want to read it, but I have another book to get through, and that one happens to be difficult for me...for some reason. Is House of Leaves really that difficult? I'm really into the deeply symbolic and creepy stuff with hidden meanings but, I'll be the first to admit I check the hell out of fan and theory sites just to understand the main plot. >_>

And is it wrong for me to think that Slendersquirrel would make an awesome pet?


HoL takes literal physical effort to read at times. There are passages where you only read the top third of the page for 20 pages, then you have to back up and read the middle third, then the bottom. There are passages written in a spiral around the page. There are entire stories that take place only in the footnotes. There are passages where you only read words of certain colors. The whole thing is an experiment in storytelling.

Add to that some complex story moments, and you have quite a book.

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bebravenow
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TheWorld wrote:
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I have been trying to read House of Leaves for about five months now and it's kicking my ass. How can you read through that and not get so horribly confused? I start reading one of his footnotes and will have forgotten everything by the end of it!



I bought House of Leaves not too long ago. I really want to read it, but I have another book to get through, and that one happens to be difficult for me...for some reason. Is House of Leaves really that difficult? I'm really into the deeply symbolic and creepy stuff with hidden meanings but, I'll be the first to admit I check the hell out of fan and theory sites just to understand the main plot. >_>


It's like this, everyone I've talked to about the book either loved it, or didn't finish it.
I'll understand the stuff about the Navidson Record but then either Zampano or Johnny will go onto a rant and I'll forget what happened in the Record. Johnny's footnotes are a stream of conciousness mess that'll make me forget what started the rant by the end of it. Zampano is just really technical and has this 'Pretentious English Teacher' language that's hard for me to understand.

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Mattwan
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AxMxK wrote:
(Picture a swarm of paparazzis and news reporters swarming a faceless Mr. Rogers.)

Mattwan! Mattwan! Mr. Mattwan!

Mr. Mattwan! How does it feel to have started a trend of disturbing, faceless avatars?!

Mattwan: ........

Mr. Mattwan! Mattwan! How long do you think this trend will continue?

Mattwan: .........

(All the reporters were reported missing in the next week.)


Ha! That'll teach me to get behind on the OT thread. (And the reporters were delish.)

My screen name is derived from etaoin shrdlu, which I picked up by way of a Pogo strip.

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Soleil
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 		but what would you feed a slendersquirrel? and how long would it hibernate???


the rake: salarians (mass effect)+ witch (L4D)?

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Soleil wrote:
but what would you feed a slendersquirrel?


Bags of nuts hanging in trees?

Soleil wrote:
and how long would it hibernate???


Until the Sunken City of R'lyeh is found?

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bebravenow wrote:
It's like this, everyone I've talked to about the book either loved it, or didn't finish it.
I'll understand the stuff about the Navidson Record but then either Zampano or Johnny will go onto a rant and I'll forget what happened in the Record. Johnny's footnotes are a stream of conciousness mess that'll make me forget what started the rant by the end of it. Zampano is just really technical and has this 'Pretentious English Teacher' language that's hard for me to understand.

I was in the same boat a number of years ago when I tried to get through it. Liked the plot, thought the random side shit was cool at first... and then tiresome... and then an impenetrable slog.

I enjoyed the actual plot, but grew to despise the book and never finished it.

I agree it was experimental, and personally regard it as a failure. Then again, I feel the same way about Lord of the Rings.

Plot is important. So is readability. Coolness at the sacrifice of readability does not a good book make. (In my view.)

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 		Here's the thing about House of Leaves: you either love it or hate it. It's personally my favorite book, but obviously there are people who really don't like it at all. I can understand why, too; it's very confusing. I'm in my first reread, taking notes in pen in my copy, and I'm catching things and understanding things I remembered completely wrong or forgot all about. There's a lot of clever foreshadowing basically everywhere.

Johnny's one of my favorite protagonists but while I know people say they don't like his story too much, here's the thing, at least in my opinion: to appreciate his story, you've got to consider how it would be if we didn't see The Navidson Record that Zampano wrote, if it was just mentioned as the reason he's snapping, and we didn't read it ourselves. It would probably be a sucky book, just of Johnny's notes. But since we have TNR ourselves, we can see his story so much better.

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