{"id":271,"date":"1998-09-06T13:28:41","date_gmt":"1998-09-06T18:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/1998\/09\/06\/unpaid-advertising\/"},"modified":"2008-09-14T12:32:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T16:32:12","slug":"unpaid-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/1998\/09\/06\/unpaid-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpaid Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lifted straight from the pages of Infinite Jest (yeah, I&#8217;m a couple years late to the party but you should *really* read this book):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But there&#8217;s this way he drums his fingers on the table.  Not even like really drumming.  More like in-way between drumming and like this scratching, picking, the way you see somebody picking at dead skin. And without any kind of rhythm, see, constant and never-stopping but with no kind of rhythm you could grab onto and follow and stand.  Totally like whacked, insane.  Like the sounds you can imagine a girl hears in her head right before she kills her whole family because somebody took the last bit of peanut butter or something.  You know what I&#8217;m saying?  The sound of a fucking mind coming apart.   You know what I&#8217;m saying?  So yeah, yes, OK, I sort of poked him with my fork.   Sort of.  I could see how maybe somebody could have thought I sort of stabbed him.  I offered to get the fork out, though.  Let&#8217;s just say I&#8217;m ready to make amends at like anytime.  For my part in it.  I&#8217;m owning my part in it is what I&#8217;m saying.  Can I ask am I<br \/>\ngoing to get Restricted for this?  Cause I have this Overnight tomorrow that Gene he approved already in the Overnight Log.  If you want to look.  But I&#8217;m not trying to get out of owning my part of the, like, occurrence.  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