signed fictitious
Apr. 26th, 2004 04:31 pmVia
bryant:
Invent a memory of me and post it in the comments. It can be anything you want, so long as it's something that's never happened. Then, of course, post this to your journal and see what people would like to remember of you, only the universe failed to cooperate in making it happen so they had to make it up instead.
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Date: 2004-04-26 04:49 pm (UTC)I stood there like a fool for a while wondering why a total stranger would want to pass me a pink envelope. Shrugging it off to one of those weird "incidents" people hear about happening at the sex stores, I go outside and walk around the city for a hour, then opened the envelope.
Inside was an autographed burlesque picture by
The note said "I know you have a LJ account. I know THINGS about you. Go read my LJ." and it was signed by "ronebofh"
I was scared. I went home and sat on my futon for a day or two, I don't quite remember, but I remember my wife asking if I was ok. I muttered something to this effect "There's someone out there stalking me."
To this date, I still don't know why it all happened.
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Date: 2004-04-26 10:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-26 10:10 pm (UTC)I can't tell the difference between reality and unreality.
GODDAMNIT, quit stalking me. I don't know what you want from me. Please go away.
Don't make me go weep in a dark corner of my small closet like a brutalized puppy.
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Date: 2004-04-26 05:42 pm (UTC)I was close to breaking down. That's natural, really. They keep you in the dark and ignore you long enough, and you lose it. No shame in that. Everyone needs some sort of contact. I'd been without contact for as long as I cared to remember.
That's why, when the tapping first began, I couldn't believe it. I thought I'd gone mad. An eon in this dark Hole with no human contact, no communication, my throat sore from humming to myself all the time; what else could a tapping sound be at that point but an auditory hallucination?
I tried to ignore it even as I tried to make sense of it. It was certainly morse code. It ran for a bit, then stopped, then repeated. Finally, I gave up on trying to ignore it. I listened carefully to the taps and tried to remember how the code went.
"G-O-O-D"
"M-O-R-N-I-N-G"
"D-O"
"Y-O-U"
"H-A-P-P-E-N"
"T-O"
"H-A-V-E"
"A"
"C-U-P"
"O-F"
"S-U-G-A-R"
"R-O-N-E-B-O-F-H"
I laughed until I cried, and when they came for me, I told them everything.
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Date: 2004-04-26 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-04-27 06:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-26 08:51 pm (UTC)When I finally gave up and asked, you must have assumed that I had spent a year steeling myself for your response. You were right, of course - but the response I was prepared for was not what I received at all.
Anyway, I've recovered now, and yes - I would like to touch it.
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Date: 2004-04-26 10:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-04-26 10:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-27 06:43 am (UTC)I tried to reason with her. I told her that Usenet doesn't have To: addresses. I told her that if you want to send a message to someone specific instead of the newsgroup, you send it as email. I told her that if you want to respond in public to someone else's article, your newsreader creates an attribution line. Nothing worked. Strange, disconnected phrases bubbled up from somewhere within the bulk - "...worked with my QWK reader five years ago..."; "...Usenet is all Americanized anyway..."; "...don't understand this Linux thing...". Finally I got fed up and told her that if she didn't move her ass pretty soon it was going to become permanently stuck in the chair; but even that didn't have any noticeable effect.
So I got everybody else out of there, secured the room, and sent in
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Date: 2004-04-27 06:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-27 07:48 am (UTC)The one who kept me up all night because of all the goddamned sex noises coming out of your bedroom window.
Get a frickin' air conditioner or something, will you?
When I went stag to my senior prom,
Date: 2004-04-27 09:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-27 10:52 am (UTC)You picked up a pair of bongos, sidled up to the front, and proceeded to drum a story called Eight Ball that holds me to this day.
And that's when the C.H.U.D.s got me.
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Date: 2004-04-27 11:11 am (UTC)Then I told you that _Flip Your Wig_ is my favourite Hüsker Dü album and you punched me with your injured hand.