if she showed up? ignore her i guess stop visiting mr larusso? even if im supposed to be helping out but my gf beat her in the tournament and i was on the team that helped get her dads dojo shut down so i think were even when it comes to 'u cheated on me when i was in juvie'
Ignoring her? Yeah, you could do that. But it's not always a great option. I know, because it used to be an old standby, and it never really got me anywhere but in a whole world of hurt and awkward conversations that might have been a hell of a lot less awkward if I'd just dealt with it head on.
Ah, that's the "sensei" in question. No offense (which means high probability I'm about to be an asshole), but maybe you should consider Mr. LaRusso's feelings. If you're supposed to be helping out, I doubt he'd just fire you over this sort of thing, even if it's awkward. I could be talking out my ass, I barely know the guy, but what I do know is that he was willing to help me, a stranger, out a very weird jam.
The tournament and team is all to do with the karate?
So that's the crux of it. You've got someone else. Your gf is girlfriend. Or guyfriend, shit, might be good friend, not important. Point is, you've got someone else on your team (the karate) that helped get Mr. LaRusso's dojo shut down? Is that part right, am I following you correctly? Did your team actively shut down the dojo, or is there more to it than that? What I mean is, were you above board in doing it?
Does Mr. LaRusso know this? Because if he does and he's still willing to let you help out, then sure, she can be upset, but it's not really her call.
And there's that fact that you just dropped. Which, if I'm reading that right (not sure how else to read it) she cheated on you when you were in juvie. That's going to be awkward for her, too, if she shows up.
[putting pieces together. this is ...is this the samantha daniel mentioned? it has to be. ah, good. this has now become suddenly awkward for him, too.]
[ Robby stares at this, and without even seeing most of the words: this isn't the person he was talking to.
Shit, the capitalisation earlier should have clued him into that, but who scrutinises a few capitals in the middle of a conversation? Not Robby, obviously.
if u dont tell mr larusso then do w/e u want robby
[ Because while Robby didn't immediately read all of what Mike wrote, and still hasn't completely finished it, he saw the guy knows Mister LaRusso. Which, great. ]
i was just talking w a friend about people we used to be with i havent seriously thought about what to do if anyone showed up but u really wrote a novel about it
🎯 Good guess: that was my job. Guess it still is. A writer's still a writer even if they stopped writing. Well, that's what writers will tell you, anyway.
Got pretty close to that once, give or take. I'm on a bit of a break, but I'll table that thought. King, maybe some Barker. Overseasoned with Lovecraft.
I can see it.
You're from regular old Earth, right? 80s? 90s? 2000s? I got a question for you if you don't mind: What year was it for you before the beach?
[obama? that guy wins? well, fuck. in mike's timeline, he'd only announced his candidacy a few months earlier. maybe between 2007 and 2017 donald trump gets some kind of political experience? a governor? a ...something? what a weird thought.]
That's still ten years after my time, kid. We're still stuck with Bush: The Sequel.
I'm still playing catch up with the music.
[and movies. and books. he'd seen a few of the bond films at the entertainment feed only to find out that four more had come out since his "time".]
u want spoilers? i can tell u all the hit songs i remember look up lil nas x every girl likes ariana granade i cant tell u about books i dont read new books
[he will now be looking up all of the ariana grande because katie. he will have mixed feelings about everything. he will watch lil nas x's 'rodeo' video five times.]
For every one of you that doesn't read books, there's another hundred that helped me climb to the bestseller list. Thrice. But you read old books?
[who says t h r i c e in a text like that? was that pretentious? yeah, but he doesn't care. he's not even greatly offended that the kid doesn't read. only a little offended. at least he reads old books. whatever 'old' is.] Superhero as in The Batman, Superman, the X-Men?
i read whatever shows up. was reading about history for a while. read some books when i had nothing else to do like lord of the flies and the outsiders. guy gave me a book here to read called i am a cat. about a cat in japan
[ very thrilling description. ]
took a break last month bc i couldnt stay still
are they part of marvel bc thats what theyre from. spiderman and avengers. i watched one called captain america and that was ok. not my thing but fine
In the libraries here, or in the Entertainment Feed?
Ah, the classics. Believe it or not, I know that last one. It's clever in a slow way. Not bad, definitely something to read when you have lots of time. Or if you're staying inside where it's supposedly safer.
Couldn't stay still because of the clusterfuck that was last month? Hard to stay still with bullshit monsters lurking around every corner.
Batman, Supes, Wonder Woman : those are DC guys/gals. I was never big into them, once I got older, but I got sucked back in. Spiderman, huh? I should probably check out what's new. For "old" times' sake.
I've been meaning to check out more of the libraries, but they keep moving around on me. Maybe I'll wait it out a bit longer.
I remember a little of that, yeah. Sleepers sleeping right in the street, and anywhere else, too. I couldn't stop crying. I mean, Jesus, I get it, I'M SAD, but I've never had that kind of an episode before, and I've had some episodes. I'm a sad drunk sometimes, but this wasn't that.
Well, now I've got to find that, too. I'm accumulating a hell of a list here.
[is he talking about 'cats' or 'wonder woman'? both, actually. wonder woman's an obvious road to sadville that he will put himself through because katie would have liked it. cats, though? that's going to haunt his dreams. his omni search will curse him with the version that has buttholes.]
Musicals aren't really my thing, but I saw that one in the city with my wife. The book was better.
did u get visited by cloverfield? it sucks. happened to me too. hits u hard when ur already going through shit and now ur crying about everything
the movie theater here is good for watching shit in if u dont want to be going off a tiny screen. weird we have magic internet but not a magic screen we can watch this stuff off
dont think anything about cats is up my alley [ he's more of a dance, guy ] but if u have a book not about cats u like, ill read it
The android? Cyborg? Yeah, sad (ha) to say that was one of the better parts of the month for me. Didn't know the answers to anything he asked me, so I just sat with him a while and told him some stories about things similar what he was asking about. At the time I thought I was hallucinating, or dreaming or really high or something.
I like that place. I don't think the woman who runs it likes me much, but I'll keep going as long as she lets me in. It's not like she withholds snacks or anything. And yeah, that is weird.
Shit, I've got tons of books I like, so I'll have to chew on that a while. Since I'm doing the old geezer karate, I can just leave it with Mr. LaRusso and he can pass it on. That sound fair?
And 'Cats' wasn't so much a novel as it was a book of trippy T.S. Eliot poems. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
welcome to trench where it would be better if u were having a bad acid trip
and sure, good luck with ur old man karate. dont ask him about the other karate dojo here or about sensei lawrence. or about crane kicks. or duel to the deaths. since u want to stay out of karate drama
dont ask about me either. im a walking karate drama
[actually types into his notes 'things not to ask daniel larusso about' : the other dojo, sensei lawrence, crane kicks, duels to the death, robby. it's a long list, but he can not mention any of these things if he's sober. and he's got to be sober for those early morning old man karate hours. but should any of those things come up? hmmm. he'll have to have an exit strategy.]
Thanks. I'll need all the luck I can get. Which, if this month is any indication of a trend, I say "keep it comin'"
Noted. Literally. It's in my Omni.
You could have something there, I'm telling you. People love a complex protagonist.
[he wheezes at "ghost write". it shouldn't be a double entendre, but it is.] Only if I'm getting paid.
So it's a trilogy, but Book Three is Really Book Zero. Star crossed lovers figure somewhere in there? Or is it best friends to bitter rivals and back again?
I don't know about that, I can set a bar for stupid.
[no, it doesn't count at all. but he might scribble a few things when the mood strikes, when he can't sleep, or when he'd rather think about something silly. three fake dojos and a high school rivalry.]
u decide how it goes. but you have to use names that are really close to the real ones. like david larson. johnathon terrance. james kove. phillip gold.
[what about swayze? ewing? bateman? the girl in question can be 'sarah' since she's not samantha. it's not like anyone is ever going to see this, right?]
ok. kane but i know theres a world out there where i got that name
[ And if only he got the last name Swayze, his mother would be over the moon. But he can't be that obvious to a guy from a same kind of world as him. ]
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stop visiting mr larusso? even if im supposed to be helping out
but my gf beat her in the tournament and i was on the team that helped get her dads dojo shut down
so
i think were even when it comes to 'u cheated on me when i was in juvie'
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Ah, that's the "sensei" in question. No offense (which means high probability I'm about to be an asshole), but maybe you should consider Mr. LaRusso's feelings. If you're supposed to be helping out, I doubt he'd just fire you over this sort of thing, even if it's awkward. I could be talking out my ass, I barely know the guy, but what I do know is that he was willing to help me, a stranger, out a very weird jam.
The tournament and team is all to do with the karate?
So that's the crux of it. You've got someone else. Your gf is girlfriend. Or guyfriend, shit, might be good friend, not important. Point is, you've got someone else on your team (the karate) that helped get Mr. LaRusso's dojo shut down? Is that part right, am I following you correctly? Did your team actively shut down the dojo, or is there more to it than that? What I mean is, were you above board in doing it?
Does Mr. LaRusso know this? Because if he does and he's still willing to let you help out, then sure, she can be upset, but it's not really her call.
And there's that fact that you just dropped. Which, if I'm reading that right (not sure how else to read it) she cheated on you when you were in juvie. That's going to be awkward for her, too, if she shows up.
[putting pieces together. this is ...is this the samantha daniel mentioned? it has to be. ah, good. this has now become suddenly awkward for him, too.]
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Shit, the capitalisation earlier should have clued him into that, but who scrutinises a few capitals in the middle of a conversation? Not Robby, obviously.
ohhhh my goodddddddddddddddddddd ]
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who is this
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I could ask you the same question, and here goes: Who is this?
This is Mike. I can pretend I never saw this if that's how you want to play it.
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if u dont tell mr larusso then do w/e u want
robby
[ Because while Robby didn't immediately read all of what Mike wrote, and still hasn't completely finished it, he saw the guy knows Mister LaRusso. Which, great. ]
i was just talking w a friend about people we used to be with
i havent seriously thought about what to do if anyone showed up
but u really wrote a novel about it
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Old habits die hard.
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unless u want to know about karate drama
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---shit, it's gone. Never saw it.
What I'd like is to stay away from any drama I'm not writing, or watching on a screen. So, no. No karate drama for me.
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good plan
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And I hope you resolve your drama. Genre change:
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are you actually a writer because ur really playing the part well
[ That, or this is some kind of dad-grade joke. (Why not both?) ]
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[he had to search for those emotes.]
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I can see it.
You're from regular old Earth, right? 80s? 90s? 2000s? I got a question for you if you don't mind: What year was it for you before the beach?
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that help?
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2019. Wow. Yeah, that helps.
[his kid would be 25 now. jesus.]
Donald Trump the TV guy? He doesn't even write his own books.
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u still on obama? or someone else
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That's still ten years after my time, kid. We're still stuck with Bush: The Sequel.
I'm still playing catch up with the music.
[and movies. and books. he'd seen a few of the bond films at the entertainment feed only to find out that four more had come out since his "time".]
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[ That's forever ago. ]
u want spoilers? i can tell u all the hit songs i remember
look up lil nas x
every girl likes ariana granade
i cant tell u about books i dont read new books
everyone is into superhero movies now
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For every one of you that doesn't read books, there's another hundred that helped me climb to the bestseller list. Thrice. But you read old books?
[who says t h r i c e in a text like that? was that pretentious? yeah, but he doesn't care. he's not even greatly offended that the kid doesn't read. only a little offended. at least he reads old books. whatever 'old' is.]
Superhero as in The Batman, Superman, the X-Men?
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[ very thrilling description. ]
took a break last month bc i couldnt stay still
are they part of marvel bc thats what theyre from. spiderman and avengers. i watched one called captain america and that was ok. not my thing but fine
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Ah, the classics. Believe it or not, I know that last one. It's clever in a slow way. Not bad, definitely something to read when you have lots of time. Or if you're staying inside where it's supposedly safer.
Couldn't stay still because of the clusterfuck that was last month? Hard to stay still with bullshit monsters lurking around every corner.
Batman, Supes, Wonder Woman : those are DC guys/gals. I was never big into them, once I got older, but I got sucked back in. Spiderman, huh? I should probably check out what's new. For "old" times' sake.
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i get its trying to say something about the professor and the ppl in the story but its weird. never read books like this
and blood. some ppl kept falling asleep? i couldnt stay still
there could be new ones of those. i remember a wonder woman movie. never saw it
but they were remaking that cats musical if u ever heard of that
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I remember a little of that, yeah. Sleepers sleeping right in the street, and anywhere else, too. I couldn't stop crying. I mean, Jesus, I get it, I'M SAD, but I've never had that kind of an episode before, and I've had some episodes. I'm a sad drunk sometimes, but this wasn't that.
Well, now I've got to find that, too. I'm accumulating a hell of a list here.
[is he talking about 'cats' or 'wonder woman'? both, actually. wonder woman's an obvious road to sadville that he will put himself through because katie would have liked it. cats, though? that's going to haunt his dreams. his omni search will curse him with the version that has buttholes.]
Musicals aren't really my thing, but I saw that one in the city with my wife. The book was better.
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the movie theater here is good for watching shit in if u dont want to be going off a tiny screen. weird we have magic internet but not a magic screen we can watch this stuff off
dont think anything about cats is up my alley [ he's more of a dance, guy ] but if u have a book not about cats u like, ill read it
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I like that place. I don't think the woman who runs it likes me much, but I'll keep going as long as she lets me in. It's not like she withholds snacks or anything. And yeah, that is weird.
Shit, I've got tons of books I like, so I'll have to chew on that a while. Since I'm doing the old geezer karate, I can just leave it with Mr. LaRusso and he can pass it on. That sound fair?
And 'Cats' wasn't so much a novel as it was a book of trippy T.S. Eliot poems. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
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and sure, good luck with ur old man karate. dont ask him about the other karate dojo here or about sensei lawrence. or about crane kicks. or duel to the deaths. since u want to stay out of karate drama
dont ask about me either. im a walking karate drama
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Thanks. I'll need all the luck I can get. Which, if this month is any indication of a trend, I say "keep it comin'"
Noted. Literally. It's in my Omni.
You could have something there, I'm telling you. People love a complex protagonist.
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remember to write the book that started the rivalries in the first place back in high school. u can start there or go back
bet u wont even hit how stupid it really got
[ Is this nearing too close to karate drama? It doesn't count if it's a make-believe version, right. It's humorous anyway, at least to Robby. ]
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Only if I'm getting paid.
So it's a trilogy, but Book Three is Really Book Zero. Star crossed lovers figure somewhere in there? Or is it best friends to bitter rivals and back again?
I don't know about that, I can set a bar for stupid.
[no, it doesn't count at all. but he might scribble a few things when the mood strikes, when he can't sleep, or when he'd rather think about something silly. three fake dojos and a high school rivalry.]
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u decide how it goes. but you have to use names that are really close to the real ones. like david larson. johnathon terrance. james kove. phillip gold.
oh. call me patrick
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maybeyes.]Patrick doesn't get a last name? Just "Patrick"?
[what about swayze? ewing? bateman? the girl in question can be 'sarah' since she's not samantha. it's not like anyone is ever going to see this, right?]
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but i know theres a world out there where i got that name
[ And if only he got the last name Swayze, his mother would be over the moon. But he can't be that obvious to a guy from a same kind of world as him. ]
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Are you talking about an alternate universe?
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those exist prob right
not that im going to think about it but everything else does here
this is the one where were squids