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[benchilada]

I wrote this a while back for a local publication and thought it might be interesting here.
Feel free to ask any and all questions you may have. Remember, I have NO sense of shame or embarassment, so all questions are welcome

Comments

[farawaypoints]

Oh, and here I was, all these years, just thinking that you were some kind of misunderstood tremendously cool genius or something.

Well! That'll show me!

...Okay, you know I'm just kidding. You know I love you. And this was very well-written.

[duosiceprincess]

I think I have read this once before, I just can't remember when you showed it to me. There are days when I hate having majored in journalism, your longer sentences literally make my fingers twitch to chop them into more compact parts. You really need to stop infecting me with your quirks via prose Benjamin, I was never as Obsessive Compulsive as I am until I met you. And I think three weeks ago some sort of growth in my skull injected crack right into my frontal lobe.

I like the word chasm, and ephemeral(sp?) But I'm more of a names kind of girl, I like the taste of some names. Like Elsbeth, or Lisbet. Penelope and Jasper.

Did this get published?

[benchilada]

There are days when I hate that you majored in journalism as well. You see, people speak in longer sentences. People speak in shorter sentences. People speak in a myriad of ways

[asymptotic]

I speak in sentence fragments. But I'm not a good speaker.

[benchilada]

PS -- Chasm doesn't register, ephemeral is just what it sounds like.

PPS -- I dare you to take my above piece, chop the sentences into more compact parts, and have it make more sense. Go on, I dare you. Do it with anything I write. I wanna see this...

[xanthvamp]

Mmmm... interesting read. I can see these things in yuo, even if I never consciously acknowledged them before. And you were perfectly FABULOUS at my wedding, no symptoms! :D

Love you, man. We need to chill.

[benchilada]

Indeed we do.
It's funny, some people see them the first time I meet them and ask about them and others never notice until they hear from me that I have T.S.

[xanthvamp]

Yeah... I'm not the most observent person in the world... But reading this, it was there, in the back of my mind. The 3's, the tapping... I dunno. I guess some part of me noticed it. Just not consciously... weird, huh?

There's an... I dunno, intensity about you. A palpable passion. It far outshines your TS. You are so powerful and charasmatic. You blew me away at my wedding... it was TRULY magical. I think maybe that's why, at least for me, that I didn't notice the "symptoms" in any way but unconsciously... you're too shiny. :D

And to jump on the bandwagon, off the top of my head, some words I like are: anthropomorphism, plethora, brilliant, ethereal, cerulean, gossamer. Opinions?

[scud_o]

You have Tourette's?

Seriously, though, I remember having the "Get out, you don't have Tourette's!" discussion with you in the Halcyon Days of Yore(tm). I believe we were at your place in Newman Hall, listening to Soul Coughing. Anyway, this piece is as eloquent as you were then. And, yes, you are a hell of a storyteller. A hell of a talker, really..

I miss the days of playing CoC by candle light in a creepy church basement.

[benchilada]

Jesus, I remember the first time I played Soul Coughing for you. The look in your eyes. The only time I've had that look since then was when I first heard Sigur Ros. And I still remember when you and Joe shoved me into your room to play..."Truuuuuuuuuue dreeeeeeeeeeams...of Wichita" for me. And how you blushed and laughed when I asked if you were going to do the little rap.

Remember "Man's Kool-Aid" while playing Battletech in the Clark Hall lounge?
Remember "The Little Gnome Who Punches People in the Nuts?"

Thanks for the compliments, Rampson. Coming from you, they mean a hell of a lot.

Miss you, you son of a bitch.

[scud_o]

sigur rossss..
ok but you can't deny the power of cyclical right? it sounds better outloud than it looks written down though. i could say that word all day.
-ajay !!

[benchilada]

"Cyclical" has much power, young one.
Jesus, wait, you're not young anymore.
Well, I mean, you are, but...

Damn I'm old.

Go look at my Flickr pictures, A-Girl.

[iamangelachase]

As someone who only knows you from the contents of your web pages, I enjoyed this insight. I thought it was well-written, too; it seems like something you would have spoken in a phone post.

What do you think of the word "crisp"?

[benchilada]

I must admit, I don't care for it. The "sssssp" part of it is icky.

[grafunkel]

One more...

S L I C E

[benchilada]

Sorry, man. Again, too many "esses".

Acrobatic.
Now there's a fucking WORD.