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rionaleonhart) wrote2010-04-18 02:43 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2010-04-18 02:43 pm
I'm Glad I'm Not An Elephant.
I love the Charlie Brooker fandom, but it's terribly damaging for my confidence as a writer. The standard is simply too good. Even on the anon meme, my writing feels mediocre amongst all the anonymous brilliance; I feel guilty about taking a prompt because I'm sure someone else could fill it better, and I feel embarrassed despite the anonymity because I have quite a recognisable writing style.
Not that I'm complaining about having all this wonderful work to read, of course.
I am very disappointed in whoever was responsible for cutting Brooker's speculation on going back in time to give himself a handjob out of Thursday's episode of You Have Been Watching. It makes me quite sad that I cannot feasibly go to every comedy recording*, as I'm now so very aware of all that I'll be missing. If Radio Four can broadcast a conversation about a man having sex with a frozen chicken at six in the afternoon, surely you could have kept that in.
* although, as I have somehow lined up three recordings for the next two weeks, I appear to be having a bloody good crack at it. Oh, dear. I'm actually doing more work on my dissertations than I would otherwise, though, out of guilt, so that's something.
Actually, I haven't yet linked to the Charlie Brooker episode of The Unbelievable Truth, have I? For those of you who can use the BBC iPlayer, it is here, although it'll be taken down in a week. Particular highlights:
09.10-10.40 (although listen up to 11.30 for a rather wonderful followup): the man who had sex with a frozen chicken.
16.50-18.30: Brooker, Mitchell and some of the most alarming flirtation you will ever hear.
Anyway, back to the question of time-travelling sex with oneself!
Brooker had it the wrong way around when he was speculating on going back in time to give himself a handjob, really. He should have given the handjob to his future self, because what if your future self wanks you off and it's terrible? And then, in the future, when you go back to give the handjob to your past self, you'll be thinking the whole time about how crap you know for a fact you are being, because you've already lived through your own rubbish ministrations. Better to keep the experience of the handjob a mystery until after you've given it.
There is a possibility that I have been thinking too much about this. (I have also been pondering whether the answer to the question of 'is it a homosexual experience or masturbation?' would change were he to do something that he physically would not be able to do were there only one of him; I imagine, for example, that Brooker cannot perform oral sex on himself, however much he may have tried.)
...this is a terrible, terrible, terrible entry.
Not that I'm complaining about having all this wonderful work to read, of course.
I am very disappointed in whoever was responsible for cutting Brooker's speculation on going back in time to give himself a handjob out of Thursday's episode of You Have Been Watching. It makes me quite sad that I cannot feasibly go to every comedy recording*, as I'm now so very aware of all that I'll be missing. If Radio Four can broadcast a conversation about a man having sex with a frozen chicken at six in the afternoon, surely you could have kept that in.
* although, as I have somehow lined up three recordings for the next two weeks, I appear to be having a bloody good crack at it. Oh, dear. I'm actually doing more work on my dissertations than I would otherwise, though, out of guilt, so that's something.
Actually, I haven't yet linked to the Charlie Brooker episode of The Unbelievable Truth, have I? For those of you who can use the BBC iPlayer, it is here, although it'll be taken down in a week. Particular highlights:
09.10-10.40 (although listen up to 11.30 for a rather wonderful followup): the man who had sex with a frozen chicken.
16.50-18.30: Brooker, Mitchell and some of the most alarming flirtation you will ever hear.
Anyway, back to the question of time-travelling sex with oneself!
Brooker had it the wrong way around when he was speculating on going back in time to give himself a handjob, really. He should have given the handjob to his future self, because what if your future self wanks you off and it's terrible? And then, in the future, when you go back to give the handjob to your past self, you'll be thinking the whole time about how crap you know for a fact you are being, because you've already lived through your own rubbish ministrations. Better to keep the experience of the handjob a mystery until after you've given it.
There is a possibility that I have been thinking too much about this. (I have also been pondering whether the answer to the question of 'is it a homosexual experience or masturbation?' would change were he to do something that he physically would not be able to do were there only one of him; I imagine, for example, that Brooker cannot perform oral sex on himself, however much he may have tried.)
...this is a terrible, terrible, terrible entry.