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Fear, focus, and the future. Here, C.M. Humphries writes about whatever. ​

3/23/2011

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This disturbed me today.

 

The Beauty of Sex dolls

http://jezebel.com/#!5586746/an-enlightening-tour-of-the-6000-sex-doll-factory
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Already you must be wondering what in the world you are looking at, and more importantly, are those real? Well, they're not. They're not even part of a human. And very lonely person wishes to grope them throughout the night, which saddens me as much is it scares me.

How have we gotten to the point where making sex dolls is a lucrative profession? Moreover, how have we gotten to the point where we almost have plastic clones of human females? And even further, why have we spent so much time and money trying to perfect the texture of real woman flesh for the sake of creating an extremely life-like sex toy? There's a science to this now!

All right, that last part was an overstatement. The dolls may or may not have been originally designed for copulation. Nonetheless, I am reminded of Mannequin in a very freakish way.

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All right, that last part was an overstatement. The dolls may or may not have been originally designed for copulation. Nonetheless, I am reminded of Mannequin in a very freakish way. 

A little digression for a minute. All right so in this movie, we, as an audience, start to feel sympathy for a character who is love with a plastic doll? At times, don't we get pissed off when no one in the film can understand the couples true passion for each other?

Why are we rooting for this guy? He is in love with a magical mannequin. 

But maybe this is the direction in which we, as a society, are headed.

Yes, Chris has certainly found his ol' soapbox from the original series of blogs (don't bother to go back and read them; they're terrible), but there's an interesting I-don't-know-what occurring with in this awkward topic of sex toys: If a doll brings a man true happiness, something greater than he experienced with  real significant others, should we judge him based on the fact that his chosen companion in life is . . . well . . . not real?

 To be fair, she is some sort of possessed royalty from mummyesque Egyptian times. Or something. 

But love whom you love, right?

I'd like to point a finger at our busy/impossible lifestyle, social networking, on online role-playing games, or whatever the hell their technical name is. I won't even Google it. Point is, is this where we should be traveling? Has human communication gotten so far stray, with the ability to hold a relationship while never physically being in the room with our others? Maybe it has become more complete. 

Can Skype replace family and friendship, rather than help it along? How far long have we gone and where will the future lead in the future or how we associate is one I'd rather just speculate on than make a definite assumption about. Maybe I'm just a left-behind of progress. 

At any point, I think humans should like humans, but who am I to judge? Who are you to? While you ponder it, go out an watch Mannequin. Go out an buy it. Definitely don't click here. 


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3/20/2011

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What I Did This Weekend

 

Message in a bottle reading series

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Look at these two over there. Thinking. I enjoy to see people thinking, for it greatly pleases me. It does. 

But this isn't about me.

Sort of.

Over there are Kelsey Timmerman (Where Am I Wearing?)and Ivy Farguheson (Muncie Star Press) thinking about what led them each to the writer career. I won't spoils the details; you'll just have to catch these guys reading someone else.

But in summary, Farguheson shared her works aside from reporting, her creative works that go beyond the who, what, when, where, why, and how. Timmerman shared a bit of information about his book Where Am I Wearing and a piece from his upcoming work.


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Cathy Shouse was also a part of the reading team at the Message in a Bottle reading series for the Midwest Writer's Conference, which is taking place this July at Ball State University. She shared details about one of the most cultured towns in the United States of America . . . Fairmount, Indiana. 

For your enjoyment, I have placed the rest of the beautiful footage I captured from my cell phone. Oh yes, high quality indeed.


Videos still to come.
Keep checking the blog.
Thank you.
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3/14/2011

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Wordslingers at High-Noon

 

The Erasure to erase all erasure . . . ers

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I've been challenged. 

I don't mean the sort of mentally/physically incapable kind of challenged, but as in a duel. 

Clay Carter and I have always been fans of the erasure form. And by always, for me, I mean recently.

Don't know what an erasure is? Find out.

To make an erasure, the writer takes an already written text and creates a new one by omitting certain words. More often than not, the resulting story is completely different than the original. This isn't lazy or plagiarism. It's fun and difficult sometimes. People have been doing this for awhile. 

But this town was mine and now Clay Carter thinks he can mosey down these streets with dry sheets of yella paper and a Sharpe marker. I'm the one rewritin' this town. There just ain't room 'nough for the both of us. 

It's a showdown. On Fridays. High-noon. 

Challenge This Stand-Off: Use the Same Text.

(More to come.)

Still don't know what's going on? Here's an example:


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3/7/2011

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Spit Sheen

 
Everyone's talking about him, but let me spin your perspective for a moment. Charlie Sheen and the Word of Mouth. I'm not painting a picture, I'm just laying out the colors.

Here are some of the main sources of the Charlie Sheen bashing going around. PEOPLE just released and issue completely calling out the plight of the Two and a Half Men star. 

Charlie Sheen was fired recently from Warner Bros. CNN, PEOPLE, SHOWBIZ, and other media outlets are owned by Warner Bros. 

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/03/07/sheen.fired/index.html?hpt=C2http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/07/warner-bros-fires-charlie-sheen/
http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/03/07/cb.badmouthing.boss.sheen/index.html
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20471718,00.html
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3/2/2011

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Things I Don't Do (On Most Days)

 

do not, i do not

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Everyone's got at least one list in their blog.  They usually refer to things someone loves or has done during the day. Some of these people recite lists in a real life, you've bumped into them. The stars of everyday life. Well, here's mine, and it's about the things I don't do. Usually.



  1. Shoot the first eight people I think about shooting. Sure, the number seems arbitrary. 
  2. Contemplate why human beings feel comfort when they have walls around them. 
  3. Wear condoms on my feet, pretending that I'm safe enough to walk around a college campus.
  4. Refer to Charlie Sheen. Oops.
  5. Take the blame.
  6. Comment on how bizarre the weather is during February. In Muncie, Indiana.
  7. Come up with witty things to say I don't do.
  8. Tell whole-truths or half-life. I'm half-certain about part of that.
  9. Act vain in front of a mirror. This usually only leads to depression.
  10. Get everything accomplished.
  11. ______________________.
  12. Use the word "fuck" enough. It's really fucking hard.
  13. This.
More to come? 
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