by PriamNevhausten » Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:29 pm
There comes a time in every person's life where they have to take a stand, to stand up and defend their words, and say: Fuck you all, this is funny/interesting whether you know it or not. Some people find this step difficult to take, this lesson that people on the internet don't know what they're talking about half the time, and we all need to be supportive of Amanda during this time of learning. On the internet, it is an essential skill for survival, and one that cannot be rushed.
It's okay, Amanda. You're growing, and we respect that. Except for those of us who don't, and fuck them in the ear with a toothpick.
"You haven't told me what I'm looking for."
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru