Æ*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*Æ * __ __ * + _____ ____ ____ ______/ |_____ ____ ___ ______/ |___________ + * \__ \/ \ / __ \/ ___\ __\ \ _ \/ \/ ___\ __/__ \_ __ \ * + / __ \_ | \ /_/ >\__ \| | Y Y \<_> ) | \__ \| |\ ___/| | \/ + * (____ /_| /___ /____ >|__|__|_| /___/__| /___ >|__| \__ \|__| * + \/ \/____/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ + * 09.08.03 angstmonster issue 35 * Æ*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*Æ ¡edited (poorly) by gir¡ i dont know how you get into a scene like an ezine scene every scene discourages originality §+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++¡contents¡++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++§ + + + Brief words from gir + + Angel in the Dark john libertus + + oscar estell + + The Finch Of Sodium oregano + + Chock full of ideas ch33z-1t + + How the Smitten Lost its Mitten gir + + + §+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++¡contents¡++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++§ the internet can bite my ass... for all: debating, snuggly girls or laptops? a hard decision --------------- : Brief Words : : from gir : --------------- My stinky squirts start to jerk in the water. The day I have waited for all my life has finally come: MY POOP IS ALIVE! IT BREATHES THE STINKY WATERS OF A BATHROOM STALL IN WHICH MERE MORTAL MEN WOULD ASPHEXIATE AND PROBABLY DIE! THIS IS THE STUFF THAT DINING HALL FOOD WAS ONCE MADE OF, THE YUMMY GOODNESS THEY YOU SHOULD BE PAID TO EAT! And then... ...everything stopped. For the longest time, there was an awkward pause of silence. We both looked around the room waiting for the other one to say something and finally there was a knock on the door. "Who the fuck is that?" "I dunno." "Well, aren't you going to go check it?" "No." "It could be important." "What the fuck do I care?" "Maybe it's somebody with He-Man sheets." There was a pause again. Ch33z-1t gets up to open the door with a hurried excitement, but Oregano opens the door up on him, squishing Ch33z behind it. "Gir, man. Who were you talking to?" "Well, I was talking to Ch33z-1t until you smashed him behind the door." "Gir..." Oregano pauses to reflect in sadness. "...Ch33z-1t's a dead man. He's been gone for awhile." "What are you talking about? HE WAS RIGHT HERE UNTIL YOU SMUSHED HIM BEHIND MY DOOR!" "Fine. Ok Ch33z-1t is probably just hiding because he is scared of me. So how about you and me go visit your doctor and we can talk to him for awhile? Ch33z-1t can stay here and get better from having the door slammed in his face." "I dunno man, we should really take Ch33z-1t with us if we are going to see a doctor. I mean, you probably hurt him really bad with your uncanny SPICE POWER!" "Gir, we're going to be late. We don't have time for any of this. Ch33z-1t is dead. REALLY!" "IF he's dead, how can he have a file in this issue of angstmonster?" "THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! DEAD PEOPLE* DON'T WRITE FOR ANGSTMONSTER!" "I'LL PROVE IT!" Even though I was about to violate the sacred rules of Angstmonster and showing off the 0day releases to non-Queens of the kingdom, this was the only way to prove Oregano wrong. Much to Oregano's surprise, the file listed as am35.txt on my computer contained a file by Ch33z-1t that was brand spanking new! "MY GOSH GIR! WHAT DOES THIS MEAN!?!" "It means we are taking Ch33z-1t with us to see that doctor who thinks that I am crazy. I'LL SHOW YOU ALL WITH THIS RELEASE THAT I AM NOT CRAZY AND CH33Z-1T WILL NEVER DIE!" (*zombies not included since zombies are undead and not dead) --------------------- : Angel in the Dark : : by john libertus : --------------------- Long ago, in my youth, I fought a duel with the Lightbringer, the one they call Lucifer; with help, I overcame him, but, in this War we're in, few victories are conclusive: he still keeps coming around. But now I can always find an answer. He knows everything, that's the problem. It's so seductive, feeling that way: that you know it all, that you'll never be called down for your ignorance. Nowadays, when someone comes wearing his face, I admit I'd be glad to know everything too, but every situation I get into is a little bit different from any I've been in before, and I have to admit I'm still learning. It's a full-time job to make sense of all I think, and feel, and see, and hear, and knowing it all would get in the way. I'm in the dark most of the time and I only have this little bit of light, so I've gotta be careful. ------------- : oscar : : by estell : ------------- My roommate's cat ate my paint this morning. Lets try and grasp the mental stimulation to be found in a tube of paint. Running out of control you slide into a wall, smashing not only your body, but also a plastic bag filled with squishy tubes of who knows what! You step into the bag ::crinkle crinkle crinkle:: AH! That sound! It makes your nose twitch and you just want more and more of it ::CRINKLECRINKLECRINKLE CRINKLE!!!!:::: AH SHEESH! Nothing beats the sound of a plastic bag crinkling beneath your little fuzzy toes. Then you remember the feeling of plastic slicing under the wrath of your razor claws, you continue tormenting the bag and finally you remember why it is you came in here. OH YEAH! I'm standing on tubes of squish!! So you jump on the squish tubes for a little while and it's mildly amusing especially since jumping still creates the CRINKLE!! AH HEAVENLY CRINKLE! You shake your head trying to focus. You wonder what can be done with a tube of squish and quickly realize that hey you're still teething and squish tubes probably feel pretty good on the old teeth. You bite the tube, one bite doesn't do much but it does have a good degree of resistance against your teeth... two bites a little harder this time... hmm... I wonder how much squish tubes can take!! And what on Earth is inside! THREE BITE AND FLAHSDASOPKPF! EXPLOSION! YUCK! Squish tastes awful but ooooo does it spread around nicely! OH SHIT I'm messy. Licklicklicklicklicklick. It doesn't come off. You get angry so you attack 3 more tubes of permanent squish until it dawns on you that you're getting messier. This sucks so you trot over to the human's sleeping space and jump on her to see if she knows how to get oily squish out of cat fur. ::MEOW!:: she looks at you, sighs, and goes back to sleep. Drat. Well nothing else to do now maybe you should just go lick your ass, and, of course, that is so intriguing that you do so for 20 minutes. ----------------------- : The Finch Of Sodium : : by oregano : ----------------------- Pre-pre-story A simple slip of the tongue. Perhaps more proper, a slip of the ear, whichever is the case is now lost to history. And so my daughter asked to hear the story of the Finch of Sodium. Pre-story I was in the kitchen with my youngest daughter making lemon water. Being of a frame of mind to have my children grow up healthy I often keep giant bottles of water in the fridge, hoping they will go for this water instead of sugary soda. But to make things more interesting than just having bottles of tap water I make things more interesting -- as a father I am required to do such things -- one of my favorites is lemon water, and I must say the girls like it too. So I was in the kitchen making lemon water with the youngest daughter. "First the concentrated lemon juice." And I let her squeeze the plastic lemon into the plastic bottle. "Then fill with water." We went to the sink and my daughter got up on a stool and turned the faucet while I held the bottle. "And finally the pinch of sodium to really sell the flavor." And I threw in a little salt, which really makes the lemon flavor stand out. The water is tart, but quite refreshing. My daughter said, "The Finch of Sodium." I corrected her and that seemed to be that. Later, at bedtime, as I was tucking her in she said, "Daddy, can you tell me a story about the Finch of Sodium?" I asked, "You mean a pinch of sodium?" She replied, "No, like a bird, the Finch of Sodium." And so for her I made up this tale. Story A long time ago we did not know where spices came from. When I say a long time ago, this was long before I was a child, a long time before Grandpa was a boy, a long long time ago indeed. The way people got spices when they were cooking is to open the window and whistle. I know you know the bird whistles, because we play that bird-whistle game over and over and over. So when people needed turmeric they called for a sparrow. How would that go? [and here my daughter whistled a sparrow call.] And -- oh no! -- we are out of fennel, call a bluejay! [Here my daughter does a jay call.] And so forth. But over time people learned to sail the world and they brought back beautiful plants from all sorts of countries. And you know how we have the garden in the back where I grow basil and dill and chives? Well, people all over grew these plants and needed the birds less and less for spices. Finally giant corporations took over and they sold spices in jars that we get in the supermarket and cut the birds all out of the spice business all together. That is...all but one bird...the finch. And so to this day, if you are mindful and heedful and you run out of sodium, you throw open the kitchen window and let in the lovely breeze and just whistle the call of the finch and soon enough one will land on the windowsill and you will have enough sodium to cook your meal. The end. Post-story "Dad, what is sodium?" my daughter asked when I was done. "It is a fancy, technical term for salt," I told her. "Dad, is that really true?" "Next time we make lemon water we'll open the window and give it a try. Now go to sleep." And she went to sleep. And I was up all night trying to figure out how to get a finch to bring us sodium. The end - Contact oregano at the following email address: oregano2k at yahoo dot com ----------------------- : Chock full of ideas : : by ch33z-1t : ----------------------- Well the time has come for me to release another file. I know it has been far too long since I have written anything. But I just have no desire anymore. All I want to do is listen to metal and videotape Worf. But as a civic duty, and constant badgering by gir, here I am in again. Making my mark on the t-file community. This is not a typical t-file, as I will not write a full anything. It will be just a bunch of parts of ideas I have had, and how I would write it. Not me doing the actual writing. Idea 1: Some of you may have heard that some theatres across the country are showing a LOTR marathon when Return of the King comes out. WELL DO NOT GO TO THIS!!! I overheard a huge MPAA exec talking about getting rid of all the dorks. They are going to blow up theatres worldwide. Their plan is to get all the dorks in many areas and blow them all up. Idea 2: Some of you may have used Downy's wrinkle releaser. Well this is very misleading. I bought this for my grandmother as a birthday present. But the problem is, it didn't release any of her wrinkles on her face. Idea 3: Hamster Mafia Idea 4: I should write a book on teaching people how to use Irc. I have had to teach two people in 1 week. What a life. On a side note. I would like to thank gir for teaching me IRC, if it had not been for x-chat freshman year. I would be a lost puppy. These are my ideas. If anyone wants to elaborate on them, they can do so in any fashion they choose. ----------------------------------- : How the Smitten Lost its Mitten : : by gir : ----------------------------------- Smitten is a good word. I think we should all do what we can to make use of it more often for when it seeps into conversations, they tend to be a little more fuzzier. I'm sure that I am not the only person to have made this observation BUT I can tell you much more about the word "smitten" than your average observer. The word is derived from the story of failed experiment by a madman, who intoxicated by power was determined to create SUPER MITTENS OF GREAT CUDDLY +5! If only we were able to wrap our minds round the implications of SUPER MITTENS OF GREAT CUDDLY +5, we would know that this man was not mad, but just a lover of the warm and fuzzy, a man that our world had no place for. WHO NEEDS SUPER MITTENS WHEN YOU CAN HAVE A BRAND NEW CAR!?! Having SUPER MITTENS reaches far beyond the want of a brand new car, life is void and meaningless without the MITTENS OF GREAT CUDDLY and this is why many people used to believe they were on very important quests to seek out SUPER MITTENS, you know, back in the day. Before there were SUPER MITTENS OF GREAT CUDDLY +5, there had been SUPER MITTENS OF SUPER CUDDLY and GREAT MITTENS OF SUPER CUDDLY, AND GREAT MITTENS OF GREAT CUDDLY, but never had their been such a mitten that was SUPER and GREAT (in that order). Knowing this, the madman had to work quick and release his divine invention to the masses before someone else did. There was a time when I was part of the race to create SUPPER MITTENS OF GREAT CUDDLY +5 but alas I ultimately failed. As soon as someone handed me mitten making materials, I started to purposely drop them on the floor and record them into my laptop and try to make mittens that way. While most of you out there are not mitten makers, I am sure you have enough sense to know that you can not make SUPER MITTENS OF GREAT CUDDLY out of music and thus I am ultimately doomed to writing tfiles and not mitten making. This disapointed me greatly, for I saw mitten making as my way out of this town, but I was not as quick witted as the madman FOR I AM NOT CRAZY LIKE EVERYONE THINKS! So back to the word smitten. The reason it was derived from SUPER MITTENS OF GREAT CUDDLY +5 is because when the madmen finally created a pair of these mittens (and the only pair ever to be made) he gave them to his one true love and they lived happily ever after. That is why we say we are "smitten" with someone, because it means we want to live happily ever after with them and give them as much +5 goodness as we can. In conclusion, I am secretly planning to create a new breed of +5 goodness for the girl I am smitten with. It's to be a surprise for her indeed. But I'm sure the surprise is to be ruined with my divulging of this information! BACK TO MITTEN MAKING FOR ME! I have a handful of monsters I grabbed them out of a barrel each of the monsters squiggles and squirms in my grasp I take the handful and put them into an earthen bowl and set it upon the table then I take them out one by one and pop each in my mouth and chew slowly monsterly good delight the end æææææææææææææææææææ æ Æfterthought(s) æ æææææææææææææææææaæ Someone once asked me about the Baked Potato theme issue we were planning and I denied its existence. This was of course to that HAMSTERS AND LASERS could be brought into this beautiful world of ours. So now if the same person was to ask me about the baked potato issue, I WOULD SAY "OH MANG WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? THE ONLY REASON WE ARE SITTING ON THE BAKED POTATO ISSUE IS BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T SENT US A SUBMISSION YET!" AND THEN ALL OF THE LOYAL READERS GET ANGRY AND GO "GIR TELL US WHO IT IS THAT HAS NOT SENT YOU A SUBMISSION FOR THE BAKED POTATO ISSUE AND WE WILL HUNT THEM DOWN AND ASSAULT THEM WITH BAKED POTATOS UNTIL THEY GET YOU THAT FILE" TO WHICH I WOULD REPLY "MY MY READERS YOU ALL ARE THE ONE PERSON WHO HAS NOT SENT ME ANYTHING AT ALL SO PREPARE TO BE ASSAULTED WITH BAKED POTATOS BY YOURSELVES!" AND UNTIL WE GET SOME SUBMISSIONS IN THE KEY OF BAKED POTATOS, THE ANGSTMONSTER RATION IS CUT OFF FOR ALL OF YOU! 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