Later Abominations
Awful writing from 1999 on, when I should have known better.
Jan 26, 1999
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A visit to the concert hall.
Mar 17, 1999
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Sea Lions in the park. What do my words mean here? I use the word pinnepedal. Why? Oh, God.
Mar 25, 1999
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The only point of this piece is to demonstrate what a jackass I am.
Apr 10, 1999
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Trashing the new Star Wars movie. It deserved trashing.
Apr 12, 1999
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An essay on the arts scene and what it meant to me in 1999. Of course, when I’m writing these summaries (mid-2000) I care not at all.
Apr 18, 1999
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I broke up with a girl and had to write for the sympathetic Internet audience about my deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep feelings.
Apr 18, 1999
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A dumb little story with one or two good lines, based on a completely predictable joke.
May 5, 1999
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What’s wrong with the world? An attempt at a non-answer in a few short words. Reading over these archives, I want often to say shut up, fellow. Why didn’t I?
Jun 11, 1999
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The online journaler, a strange creature of odd habits.
Jun 27, 1999
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All the things in my head all at once.
Jun 27, 1999
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A goofy fiction.
Apr 22, 1999
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A series of little narratives, all glued together
Mar 9, 1999
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Closure on the Internet
Jan 22, 1999
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Geeking out.
Feb 1, 1999
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A few absolutely shitty literary thoughts.
Dec 31, 1999
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Prior Iterations of Ftrain, created in blind ignorance but with great hopes, and information on the site itself. My advice, which you should feel free to ignore considering the source, is to start from the very end - to read the new stuff first, when I’d actually learned a little bit about writing, and then if you can stomach it, move backwards.
Aug 10, 1998
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Acting my age
Mar 13, 1999
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A sad whine about work, written in the “high amateur” style that so much of my prose favors.
Mar 27, 1999
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How many can you spot? And when is a cliche a characteristic?
Apr 17, 1999
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Ah well. Sometimes the writing turned to squalorous sloppiness. Here’s a good example.
Feb 22, 1999
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So now, I decided to become autobiographical. I thought I’d write my whole life’s story in about 3 hours, but I didn’t get far. Here’s the first piece.
Mar 25, 1999
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Oh, I am a didactic bastard. What was I trying to accomplish with my mini-lecture on automotive environmentalism?
Jan 2, 1999
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A New York moment of no note.
Jan 25, 1999
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A moment of waiting for the emotions to settle.
Jan 3, 1999
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Sick of writing, I write about being sick of writing. Result? The audience is sick of me.
Apr 17, 1999
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Talking, talking back, and so on. Taking it all too seriously.
May 17, 1999
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Writing on writing about writing. Kill me.
May 23, 1999
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What he said.
Feb 25, 1999
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A little fiction with a high “yeah, whatever” quotient
Jan 4, 1999
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Working and what it’s like to work and whatever.
Feb 22, 1999
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A little apology to a woman who’s long, long gone.
Mar 6, 2000
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Out of ideas, I began writing about Ftrain itself. Bad sign.
Apr 30, 2000
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Middling writing about a nice day.
May 1, 2000
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I was just fucking with people here, writing nonsense, talking crazy talk.
Jun 24, 2000
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In my modern era, love begins with diagnostics.
Jul 15, 2000
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Ask an idiot a simple question, and see what happens.
Jul 26, 2000
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Relaunching the Web site.
Aug 2, 2000
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I’m trying to unrust my chops, so I wrote down some thoughts on the RNC. It’s hard to connect ideas; I’m struggling with the words.