Friday is for Nihilism

It's Friday! Another hopelessly false construct, made by the idleness of man, in the hopes that perhaps by measuring our countless hours (too few of which we can actually remember), we can make our days (spent in selfish indulgence or pointless suffering) seem like they have meaning. Meanwhile the sun (our great keeper, and uncaring life-giver) continues to burn, until, like mighty Chronos, it grows angry with our pitiable little terrestrial orb, and devours us. But before any of that happens, Friday is also Chat Transcript day (James, Zach, and I were discussing the new writer-ladies, at least in theory)!


Zachary: Pros: More voices, more steady updating (hopefully).
Zachary: Cons: DAMAGING THE PERFECT ALCHEMICAL BLEND OF MADNESS
Thomas: That's a very forgiving definition of "perfect"

Thomas: I would settle for "Needs minimal editing" and if they lie, that they lie amusingly.

Zachary: You should have come and visited while I was home, Thomas.
Zachary: So Beth could stab you to death.
Thomas: That is the exact opposite of what I want to happen.


Thomas: Plus it's not like I have a job to distract me from blogging.
Zachary: It's not like I do my homework!
James: It's not like I don't drink red bulls and stay up and read until my head twitches angrily enough to write something.
Thomas: *internet superhero high-five*

Thomas: While the rest of us are kind of like crude hammers, covered in glue and broken glass.
Zachary: ...I'd say I'm a gnomish hooked hammer, personally.
Zachary: And can be wielded using weapon finesse.
Thomas: *facestabbings*
James: Some time in the future, we ought to have a week where we get all the d&d references out of us for about a month.

Thomas: *has been playing dress-up with his Gaia avatar for five minutes now*
James: Zach?
Thomas: ...
Thomas: So, James, have you heard any of the latest killers album?
(five minutes pass)
Thomas: ...Helloooo?
Thomas: I have said eight times more than everyone else combined. I am king of chat!
(another three minutes)
Thomas: And now to post links to pornographic videos.
Zachary: Oh yeaaaaah.
Zachary: This window exists.

Zachary: ...so, uh. Staff meeting?
Zachary: I'll try not to forget I'm in here.
James: Yes.
James: staff meeting.
James: all three of us need to be paying attention to the window at the same time.

James: we have almost 18 unique viewers.
Zachary: I know!
Zachary: That's partially because of me doing a little bit of sitewhoring recently.
James: And 4 readers from Canada.
Thomas: The lost world!

See you all tomorrow!

In Lieu of Actual Content

Not to undermine the seriousness of Elevennames (a serious blog for serious writers), but I feel it vital at this juncture to point out a little something of how an Elevennames post comes to be.

Step 1: We bitch at each other over IM

Zach : Of the new site design, Beth said, "It looks like it sits in an overstuffed chair and sips brandy while oppressing the working classes. So Thomas must have picked it."

Thomas : I've been looking for that big ASCII middle finger for a few minutes now.

Step 2: We determine the guilty party

Zach : Also: let's go make fun of James for being lazy.
Zach : As he hasn't updated eleven names yet.

Zach : Then you could just both go back to hating me, and the cycle would be complete!

Thomas : UPDATE
Thomas : DI DI MAO
Thomas : DI MAO LUN
James : ?
Thomas : DO IT; DO IT NOW
James : done.
James : 11names is publishing now.
James : 11names is updated now.
Thomas : Right.

Step 3: Repeat Step 1.

Thomas : Ha ha ha ha ha. Editing!
Zach : Also suspected that might happen.
Thomas : The problem here is that you are a suspicious. Pokemon. A suspicious type. Type of pokemon.
Zach : Suspicious type pokemon.
Zach : And yeah, I pretty much am.

Zach : So, basically, I have to amend the list until we set up some better means of access.
Thomas : Tough but fair. I'll come up with a list. I could have sworn I already did.
Zach : ...maybe!
Zach : I asked you to email me some once.
Zach : *goes to look through email*
Thomas : I say this because I am almost certain that I did.
Thomas : And if I didn't, that you aren't organized enough to prove me wrong!

Cate: you james, and zach have a horrible blog?
Thomas: Yes. It is horrible and making us hate each other.

Thomas : PROJECT RUNWAY D:<
Previous message was not received by James because of error : User James is not available.

And there you have it. More on politics, and other stuff, later. Maybe the glorious return of theme weeks!