Day log: the
ides of
November.
Dinner today:
spaghetti with
mushrooms and
tofu,
green beans on the side; tiny slice of
pumpkin pie for
dessert.
Taking stock:
So here we are, halfway through the month, and this is shaping up to be a successful venture toward the conquest of
THE IRON NODER CHALLENGE 3: THIS TIME IT'S MARTENSITIC.
Voting
I decided at the beginning of the month that I'd make sure to use up all 50 votes, plus my daily ching!, every day. This has been surprisingly easy, and I even found myself buying a few extra votes to catch new writeups. So I've put in maybe 780 votes, and I think only three were negative. Out of that scheme I opted to pick an E2'er with a manageable number of nodes and to read and vote on
everything in their arsenal. I chose
Morwen, and was pleased with everything I read from that noder, especially the theoretical claim of three-way sex with
Winona Ryder and
Famke Janssen in
you have to be kidding.
Writing
As the month hits is midpoint, I have posted 28 write-ups, and this will be the 29th. I suppose I ought to admit, as well, that there are a half dozen more waiting in the wings which I've shepherded to various stages of completion. Some I have in mind to post on particular days, or in a particular order, and so they will not be coming until later in the month. I have, as well, some nascent ideas scribbled across my scratch pads which I may or may not develop, and which I'd quite possibly be pleased to pass on to a fellow noder looking for some seed of inspiration. And as for the posted nodes, they are:
1.
Cephalophore
My double-header for
Ten Years of Terror: The 2010 Halloween Horrorquest and Ironnoder. This one I've been planning for a while, as headless Catholics seemed to me to be an appropriately horrorific subject for a
Halloween write-up.
2.
A-Thorism
Just seen too many insistences to the effect that: a)
premise: '
my religion is true'; and b)
conclusion: '
therefore, my religion is true.' And, as well, that 'my religious text is so wonderful (or, in the example shanghaied here, so "decorous") that it
couldn't have been written by humans.' Makes one wonder if these claimants have ever actually
read any of the others.
3.
An open letter to Dick Wolf, re: bringing back Bolander
No, this actually wasn't intended to be
parodic. I'd really like to see it. I suppose it's silly in the sense that
Dick Wolf isn't going to be trolling E2 for ideas -- but I emailed this one to
NBC as well, so who knows.
4.
o-string
For no particular reason I started searching
Google to see where the longest "noooooooooooooooo...." could be found. Results here.
5.
Battered Voter Syndrome
Politics in
America is
bullshit. Perhaps it has always been so, but in modernity it is no more than the slick scripted corporatised marketing of a two-headed beast with an unquenchable thirst for power. 'Nuff said.
6.
Sailor Mercury
Awwww, come on, she's the cutest one. I happened to catch an episode of the live series, and found that water-based power to be quizzical.
7.
The Failure of a Theistic Cohesion
Been working on these ideas from several angles for a while. An
evangelical pushing this on me in a forum (as described) just pushed me over the edge to finishing and posting.
8.
Eat at Khan's
When I saw this title in new writeups, I assumed that it would be about the Star Trek character. It wasn't. So I made it so. Heheh, little
Jean-Luc Picard humour, there.
9.
Aging across the Star Trek sequels
....and writing about a possible Khan in the alternate Trek
timeline brought me to thinking about how the characters aged across the run of films portraying back-to-back events.
10.
Is cancer man-made?
The
mummies article was, actually, kind of a last straw for me on the proposition that we're causing ourselves to be exposed to a lot of things which it is unnatural for our bodies to deal with, and the biological response to strange
chemicals may very well be
disruption to orderly cell replication.
11.
It is at that moment, I believe, that Sylvester finds his true voice
Another one where I saw the title in new writeups and was surprised that the content did not match what I imagined; and so I wrote what 'I tawt I'd tee' when I clicked over to it.
12.
The Most Remote Town in the United States
Okay, this was simply me being a
smartass with the bad pun. And, after the whole controversy over whether I was an alt of Glowing Fish (or vice versa) I always find it amusing to post in nodes GF has created. GF not long thereafter wrote
Three United States Counties Not Connected to Land, and I struggled for a while for a story wherein three counties were going to land (in the verb sense), but finally gave up.
13.
Questionable Content
Love that
webcomic, and what was here was out of date.
14.
The Art of Blowjob
I actually wasn't, particularly attempting to be provocative with this one. I simply agree with that website's premise that there's no reason why a
blowjob can't be as much of a work of art as any other sort of performance.
15.
reincarnation
This is an idea I've kicked around for a
loooong time -- a decade or more -- and the excitement of ironnoder simply finally got me to put it down here.
16.
The Muse's Triumph
This
poem, for me, seems to capture a sense of what drives some to keep coming back here.
17.
Why women have ridiculous amounts of shoes
This was a pure reaction post -- saw a theory put up, happened to have my own theory already knockin' around my
noggin, thought to post it.
18.
rocket surgery
I've heard folks proclaim this as a mangled
punchline (intentionally or no) on more than one occasion.
19.
brain transplant
Another thing I've though about for quite a long time. Obviously.
20.
hot-boxing
Spur-of-the moment write-up on a topic that crossed my mind which I saw no coverage of.
21.
How to spot bad internet porn stories
I don't remember how I got to looking at this node in the first place, but there were so many items of
advice given that I just had to compile them as much as I could into a single story catching them all -- and throw on an unsexy twist ending to boot.
22.
The Last Harry Potter Adventure
Got caught up in the
Harry Potter fanfic storyline from the past few weeks of
Questionable Content.
23.
My First Porn
I was genuinely nervous about posting this. I haven't put much in the way of true
erotica on the Internet, nor have I tended to write biographically.
24.
alphabet trick
It.... came up.... while writing
My First Porn -- I had just assumed it would be noded here; lacking that, I put it together.
25.
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
The Custodian had this on a want list; well he had a lot of things on the list but this is the one that jumped out and grabbed me and cried out, write meeee!!
26.
North American Man-Fetus Love Association
This has apparently caused some disconsternation as well. I was inspired to write this by the ridiculous self-justification arguments made by pedophiles, I had put together this joking piece a while ago on the equally absurd idea of fetophilia. I finally got prompted to posting when I read about the pedophilia how-to being pulled from Amazon.com.
27.
The science fiction of shrinking
Another one I had bubbling around in my mind for a long, long time -- for as long as I've written about the possibility of
time travel I've been keen to point out the implausibility of this sci-fi stepcousin to that concept.
28.
Jesus was a Gay Black Hippie Jew
Well, here's the deal. Woodnot posted
Jesus was a reactionary reformer, just like Martin Luther in later years, and this popped up as a related link, and following it led me to multiple arguments about the possible gayness, blackness, and hippieness of Jesus, but all of them relating to only one of the many possible definitions which could be applied to each of those words.
Success!!
All of my nodes to this point of the month are still alive. The most upvoted is
My First Porn; highest overall score (and most C!'d) is
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. Total upvotes 273. Most downvoted (and lowest overall score) is the admittedly bad-pun-driven
The Most Remote Town in the United States, with 13 downvotes for a -5 overall. Total downvotes 93 (my six most downvoted writeups for the month count for more than half of all downvotes). Overall evaluation? Eh, not too bad.