Question by THE REAL DEAL SEX APPEAL: Why do people write “wash me” on their cars?
Can’t they think of something more creative…something like
I wish my life was as dirty as this car
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Answer by anton balobia
ahah cool
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Question by : What should I get my mom for Christmas?
I don’t have much money and I have run out of ideas of what to give my mom for Christmas. Does anyone have some ideas? And also the whole make-it-yourself stuff doesn’t really work for me because I’m not that creative and end up writing, “Thank you for everything. You’re the prettiest, sweetest, and nicest mom ever! I love you” on her card and I’m past that age now. I need a real gift this year so if anyone has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much!
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Answer by Davis
Day at the spa
Nice candles
Buy her and your dad a gift certificate to a really nice restaurant
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Question by getshorty75: Need some help with Lacan’s “The Language of the Self,” Ch. II Symbol and Language?
I’m researching Lacan for a creative writing project and need some help deciphering his ridculously difficult prose. In Chapter 2 of The Language of Self, he implies that dreams and psychopathology (i.e., symptoms) are analagous to sentences in general and language in particular, right? Lacan suggests that neurotic symptoms manifest from the unconscious via a “sureness of combination[s]” correct? I’m having difficulty understanding, in layman’s terms, how number theory parallels the structure of the unconscious. What does he mean when he writes, “if the numbers resulting from these operations, among all numbers in the actual history of the subject, prove to be symbolizing numbers, it is because they were already latent in the choice from which they began?” Does this mean that the unconscious forms symbolic structures that can’t be “reduced” to original, “pure” components as everything current is colored and shaped by everything preceding them?
Steve, I was inspired by a lecture that joined Lacan, Browning’s “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” and Christina Rosetti’s “Goblin Market” – language of psychosis and sexual awakening/dysfunction. Lacan is one of the few theorists that joins semantics, psychoanalysis, and art. But you’re right: Lacan is too amused with himself. Jung rocks my world.
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Answer by Steve
omg, why are you wasting time on Lacan?
forget about it. The prose is ridiculously difficult because it’s trying to hide the fact that his ideas are not worth all the reading it takes to untangle them.
Jung surpasses any of these guys and will be 10 billion times more inspiring for creative writing.
ps. sorry i didn’t answer your question but Lacan made me sick years ago and i haven’t been back to it since. Jung on the other hand blows my mind every time, well almost , sometimes even he’s full of it, but so’s everyone so you can’t blame him.
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Question by Emi: Is this unfair? “punished” at work for stupid “crime”?
So i work at a movie theater. It is a popular corporation and have a lot across the country. I work floor staf and go up and beyond for this job cause i was un-employed for a year (looked for a job that long). i get paid minimum wage and barely get to 10 hours a week while also being a full time student with ALOT of availibility
Heres what happened: Out break room got redone and in our break room we have a large table with a bunch of chairs and the Managers put a thin cheap tarp tablecloth over it. One day during my lunch break with 3 other employee’s we were writing down schedules from the schedule book for the next week and had pens and doodled on the table cloth.
The table cloth already had rips and tears so we knew like many cheap ones like it it will be thrown away. My two employees wrote the theater name and logo while i simply wrote “I <3 ___" the name of the person was my bf and was not an employee at the theater.
A few weeks go by and I go to pick up my paycheck and am told that i was to do my creative punishment for the crime. I ask what for and my team manager told me. I was to scrub the gum off of every chair in the theater on theaters 1 through 11. I asked when and my manager said my next shift... I did not get scheduled at all this week because i requested off for ONE day...and i get scheduled ONE DAY so they said i have to come on my time during the week to do it (but was unclear if i could do it next shift or i could clock in). We have multiple managers and im pretty sure our two female managers who like to assign and ask for picked up shifts without askin availibilty and just being down right respectful prolly are just finding a reason to get me to do this task.
My two co workers already did their punishment..one did theaters 12 through 16 as the other just did the arcade.
If i was defacing property of the theater...ok i understand. But it was a tablecloth worth a dollar that was not even MADE by our company. My mom thinks i should quit but i need the job.
My manager that told me this said, "i dont think the punishment fits the crime" but i clean alot more than some of the younger lazy workers here...and all this is for minimum wage..
What should i do? And should i take this to corporate?
it took me a year to find a job and i still have another year of college or so to go through. I like the job and people but i have been ticked all day and think its just so unfair.
Thinking i might put up with it but if anything else happens ima take it to corporate and have more than one instance where they abused me
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Answer by gardenoflia
That’s a job (Journey Of the Broke).
You either go along with the B#*@@!!!T or you quit.
Start thinking about what you can do to build something for yourself, a home business or network marketing. Be your own boss. something no-one can ever take away from you. If you continue to work for someone else, believe me, this is not the worst thing that will happen to you on a job!
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Question by : What is a creative way to ask a girl to prom using a masquerade mask?
I’m helping my friend ask a girl to prom. Our theme is masquerade and I told him to buy a mask but now I need something creative to put on the mask because I don’t want him to just write “prom?” Please help!
Thank you:)
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Answer by Abstract
I’m not sure what you mean – how many words does it have to be, how much space does it take up on the mask, where you do you want it to be put?
Maybe he could give her a note, like -”I’m tired of masking myself from you. I want to mask myself WITH you. Would you go with me to the masquerade?”
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Question by Gardenfoot: What are some rude and creative ways to do the following homework assignments?
Back when I was in High School, there were two assignments I loathed! One in English Class, one in Health Class.
In English Class it was “Write about the Saddest day of your life”, which I didn’t want to share or re-live the pain, so I made something-up that was completely stupid.
In Health class, I was told to write “Write a letter to your parents as if you are running away”. I told the teacher “I forgot”, when in actually I thought I was a really horrid assignment and refused. What are some rude and creative ways I could have wrote those assignments?
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Answer by xac619
for the saddest day or your life write something really happy “The saddest day of my life was when I went to the carnival with my best friends last year. We had so much fun that I didn’t know what to do with myself…”
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Question by Gone: I wrote “cuss” words on my wall in my room; parents aren’t happy.?
I’m a very creative person and my room shows it. I write things on my wall in my room, mosty lines from songs or quotes. Some of them have some cuss words in it. Today, my dad went into my room to clean up a bit because an exterminator was coming. He read some of the things that are on my wall and was ‘shocked’ that I would do something like that. He said it was like stabbing him in his back, because he was find with me writing on my wall, but apparently cuss words aren’t okay. In my opinion, it’s MY room and I should be able to do whatever I want with it because it’s my own personal space. Now he’s forcing me to somehow take those words off, because “what I put in my room represent me and that isn’t what he wants to represent me.” Aren’t words just words? It’s not like he hasn’t said them before.. And Shouldn’t I be able to do what I want with MY room?
An example of what I wrote on my wall is
“People tell me to slow my roll, I’m screaming out fuck that.”
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Answer by Jessica
Unless you pay the bills, it’s not YOUR room. Seriously though..What are you three? Mostly toddlers write on their walls..Grow up and stop writing curse words on the wall. Write them in a journal or something..
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Peter Cooley is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. He has a BA in Humanities from Shimer College, an MA in Art and Literature from The University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Modern Letters from The University of Iowa, where he was a student in the Writers’ Workshop. His seven books of poetry are The Company of Strangers, The Room Where Summer Ends, Nightseasons, The Van Gogh Notebook, The Astonished Hours, Sacred Conversations and A Place Made of Starlight. In 2007, his publisher, Carnegie Mellon, releases his new volume Divine Margins. Peter’s poems have appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic and in over one hundred anthologies including most recently The Best American Poetry 2002, The Manthology, Poets on Place and Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Poetry Website. From 1970-2000 he was Poetry Editor of The North American Review. His particular interests are creative writing, women poets and contemporary literature. In addition to workshops in creative writing, he has taught Surrealism in Contemporary Poetry, Confessional Poets and Poetics for Poets. Peter has given recent poetry readings of his own work on the Ohio Poetry Circuit, in Spain and France, in New Zealand, where he was the US Representative to the International Poetry Festival, in the Czech Republic, and in Cape Town, South Africa. He received the Inspirational Professor …
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