Invible carrot?
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- ********0
after this thread, rasko has oficially become, in my eyes, a legend.
- vespa0
oh right is that it? woops yea i read that - i thought it was an excerpt but it's a short story, silly me. i remember when he was touring and promoting it there were all the reports of vomiting in the aisles etc.
haha yea i don't have that strong a stomach for reading stuff, my imagination is too active it gets the better of me :(
- mogwai0
I like Palahniuk
When I am at home. Or when I'm in the right mood, whatever.Rasko, what you must ask yourself, Is why you want NT to read Palahniuk? Enough to post the whole damn short story.
Why do people get off on exposing people to sick shit?
- vespa0
haha that's the beauty of the internets isnt' it mogwai? people don't have to read it if they don't want to..
cheers rasko i never would have been arsed tracking it down, did you type the whole thing in yourself?
- ********0
ooooooh
you slut bucket
i thought it was YOU rasko who did this.
you totall JazX'ed me there.
- _salisae_0
i find it extremely interesting. although it is disturbing .. if i ever have a boy i'm glad to know what may be going through his mind.
imo - the mother should have put the carrot and dirty clothes back. i would never want to create that kind of distance.
- rasko40
"ooOOOh" *raises handbag at mogwai.
Sorry to upset you so much, I just read it, thought it was amusing in a rocking back and forth like a romanian orphan while reading it type way.. so I thought I'd copy and paste it for the other freaks here on NT, I knew some people would appreciate it, and they did. I'm not 'getting off' on it. Maybe you should have waited til you were at home, or in the right mood before you read it, whatever.
sorry Kuz, it did say 'by Chuck' at the start, that was kind of a giveaway!
- ********0
haha, i'm an imbecile,
now i feel foolish for not being literary enough to know the workd Guts by Chuck Pahliuk
*takes back his legend badge from rasko*
- grayhood0
damn, i have read quite a bit by check and this is by far the most disturbing. entertaining though, thanks rasko.
the most fucked up part is that i think we all know that one friend who works in an emergency room and has those stories, probably not this bad but close.
for fucks sake people try to be alittle more carefully when fussing with your exits.
- soda0
Kuz, you didn't really think that had happened to rasko.... did you!?!?
- lifeinsodium0
"The story, "Guts," is a little marvel. When I read it to friends in our workshop, people laughed, but no one fainted. To date, 40 people have fainted during public readings. Even in Italy, where it was translated and read by an Italian actor, several people fainted at each event. The story is from a linked collection of stories I'll publish in 2005 (to be called Haunted), and "Guts" is by no means the most-upsetting. The one I'll read on tour this summer has made my friends weep so hard they had to leave the room. Then, go into counseling."
- Chuck Palahniuk
- ********0
afraid so :-( hence the ass kissing compliments to rasko
i was like "woah, this guy is da shit, especially typing it up and being frank abuot it and bein all elequant and shit and so poetic"
i was like all moved by brilliant piece on teenagedom the comedy and the tragedy of it all...
- ********0
thanks tho rasko, seems like i must look into this Chuck Palahniuk. He wrote fight club u say? coolio, sounds like he mixes a healthy dose of poetic punk nihilism with sheer comedy.
- jevad0
that, was SO worth the read
- vespa0
kuz read survivor
- hiphoprelic0
That is the sickest shit I have ever read, seen, or heard.
Even when it got that way, I could not stop reading.
I m permanently scarred as of now.
- ********0
it's on my amazon wish list vespa :)
- Warland0
Survivor is good Kuz, you'll like it. However, IMHO, Choke is by far his masterstroke to date. Lullaby is also well worth the time. In fact, come to think about it. Everything the guy has written is pretty damn good.
- RADDL0
I got to hear Chuck do a live reading of this last September at Harold Washington Library in Chicago. A few people left the room, but nobody got vomited on. I've got pretty thick skin for stuff like this and still my palms were clammin' up.
Subsequently, he brought out a big cardboard box for the Q and A and said, "If you've got questions, I've got severed limbs." which he'd pull out of the box and toss to anyone he called on.