Friday, July 8, 2011
I Discovered the Wonders of Copying and Pasting, 14,305 Words
Sure, I've copied and pasted before, but never so shamelessly and in such quantities. I am now 1,000 words ahead of schedule.
I copied and pasted the entire blog and comments from 'Tout'. It seems to have been shut down since that time, I haven't been able to access it since. I suspect nefarious government intervention.
Grace is in a real pickle because the one thing she had left (her research) is a flop and completely meaningless to her. Her research is described thus:
Her current project was intended to intervene in Mommy Blogger culture, which Grace believed to be the epitome of shameless hedonism, that is to say self styled ‘mommies’, who were obsessed with their child(ren) to the point of mania. Since Grace believed that this could only lead to a nation of self-obsessed narcissists (please see any person born after 1989 for reference), she felt it was her postmodern duty to ironically intervene.
Further described here:
Furthermore, she couldn’t believe she hadn’t been aware of an entire nation of Mommies, out there, plugging their own blogs on each other’s websites, encouraging strange practices like teaching their children sign language and using flashcards. It was the most bizarre display of anti-feminist sentiment since the 1990 airing of the Beverly Hills 90210 episode ‘The Perfect Mom’ . She decided to start her own mommy blog, to ironically call mommy bloggers onto the mat, to hold up a mirror to reflect their own idiocy back to them. Grace foolishly believed that this would lead Moms to take up arms and join others in the battle against corporate America, cultural imperialism, social inequality, and government oppression.
Her effort to start an ironic mommy blog called 'Beaucoup' was a dismal failure when she realized that mommy bloggers don't even read the content of others' blogs. It was the last straw. She has decided to stop attending work altogether. I finished with this:
She picked up her faded red fitted hoodie, leaving the computer her dean had rendered useless behind. She headed to the only place in the world that made any sense to her anymore. She went to Jackie’s Place.
Also, I included a picture of the drunk baby you guys keep talking about, as well as a picture of baby who is clearly a budding shitster. You're welcome.
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I'm so glad that I managed to squeak by being a complete jackass by only two months. Thank god Valentine's day isn't in April.
ReplyDeleteI think this is brilliant. I'm so glad that the amazing blog posts and comments are living on through your novel.
ReplyDeleteI feel that Grace's silent protest against her job is an eloquent postmodern attack on contemporary hyper(spatial)ity.
Congrats on moving ahead! I'm about to start today's writing. I'm undecided about whether to flash back to the past, or to actually put some semblance of a plot in this thing! I guess I'll find out!
OMFG, is Grace the author of the Beaucoup blog in my novel? That is, indeed, a strange and unexpected twist that I was not expecting. I also thought you made an extremely important point about all children born post-1989.
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