Quit Twitter : Day 8

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 5/16/2013 4:08:00 PM

'TWO DAYS I BEEN LIVING ON EXCELLENT FREE FOOD OHGOD WHERE IS MY CHINI yearn for a time when pure love existed.Talk to someone everyday for a month and then suddenly you can't talk to them for two months. What bullshit.忝 is apparently unicode or something for 'self deprecation'.I have been at three parties in the last twenty four or so hours. I might defragment any moment.I feel an end approaching. It is pointless. Like this forced sabbatical. It did nothing for my whimper(...)'

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Quit Twitter : Day 7

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 5/15/2013 1:40:00 PM

'There is something undeniably alluring about a hot shower. I was recently asked my views on pani puri. I said 'what difference does it make?'. Upon which I  was greeted with a sullen 'you say that for everything.' It is true. It is my stock reply to the little things.I like saying 'if you know what I mean' to unsuspecting people and watch them (a) recognition add color to their face if they know (b) go along with me and act like they do know what I mean (c) grapple for context (...)'

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thousand words

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 5/14/2013 11:39:00 PM

'never more have I ever wanted a picture to be alive orto be a mirrorafraid that if those eyes ever lifted they might unclose something deep in metenderness, what is thy remedy?I see that wretched mole still graces your nose I always thought of it as an establishment and not a woe I haven't travelled but I have been places yet I don't think I have ever been where your silence has been, but I would like to go if you would lead me I imagine you would have frail gestures but I know you (...)'

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Quit Twitter : Day 6

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 5/14/2013 5:56:00 PM

'Last night I saw beauty and it stole two hours of my sleep. I wrote something about it. I liked it but it also made me a wee bit sad.So this morning as I woke up and smelled the routine, I listened to Morrissey who works great as an external conduit for melancholy.Ever feel like you have been given a thin blanket to warm up when you were clearly frozen into some prehistoric peat?That just after I had read something else that said loneliness is a disease. EVERYTHING IS A DISEASE THES(...)'

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Quit Twitter : Day 5

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 5/14/2013 4:18:00 AM

'ONLY 5??!!Feels like a lot more.Guy from my engineering batch, also was my roomate for some time, got married. I panicked till someone told me he was two years older.You know how you meet someone who is such a breath of freshness in your citizen kane aspect ratio life that you feel more wes anderson colour scheme? All you want to do is talk to them all the time. All the while worrying about verbal missteps that you might make and sour things up. All you want is them to john hughes l(...)'

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Quit Twitter : Day 4

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 5/13/2013 2:25:00 PM

'Back to my kingdom. Work.It doesn't really interest me anymore. Doesn't feel challenging enough. It was good when it was new but now that I have scaled the learning curve, my interest has waned.Upstream Colour is not as demanding of attention as Primer was. There is no plot gymnastic. It is pretty clear what is going on. However, there are several of these that are going on and it is not entirely clear which one is going on. Is the movie supposed to be a celluloid representation of (...)'

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Quit Twitter : Day 3

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 5/12/2013 4:00:00 PM

'I deactivated my Twitter account [@doppelhanger] on 9th May 2013.I need to know what I am minus Twitter. Plus, I want to see how/what I get done without Twitter.--I woke up thinking of the word febrile.Modern Family is that rare gem of a television show that I hate for its saccharine sweetness and alluring simplicity and then hate myself for hating something for the aforementioned qualities.Found a musty old folder somewhere in the dark recesses of my teenage mind's angst compartmen(...)'

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Quit Twitter : Day 2

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 5/11/2013 2:30:00 PM

'I deactivated my Twitter account [@doppelhanger] on 9th May 2013.I need to know what I am minus Twitter. Plus, I want to see how/what I get done without Twitter.--Watched one episode of QI. Learnt a lot. Laughed a lot.Looks like the Nexus 4 is going to need work to get it up and running. Groan.Still can't seem to write full sentences. I blame Twitter. Ooh a sentence.Tried to think of a new book to start reading. Ended up thinking of a lot more than one. Clicked on Plume only once.Hu(...)'

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Quit Twitter : Day 1

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 5/10/2013 5:21:00 PM

'I deactivated my Twitter account [@doppelhanger] on 9th May 2013.I need to know what I am minus Twitter. Plus, I want to see how/what I get done without Twitter.--Woke up. Checked phone. Clicked on Plume. Remembered last night. Wept.Went through the motions. Found out that the Nexus 4 had been delivered home. Elation. For a brief moment.Clicked on Plume to tweet about it. Wept some more.Realized that I had not finished David Sedaris' Naked only because I had not read the l(...)'

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Idea Dump

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 3/15/2013 8:23:00 PM

'5 ideas that I submitted for some online competition before I read their terms & conditions..3d printers with cloud brains replace society.Cancer eventually evolves into Immortality.Internet speak first eliminates need for vowels and then language itself ceases to exist.Mobile phones spike evolutionary curve turning humans into a gestalt-sentient race.Handicapped people world over rejoice as a miraculous new prosthesis appears that 'fits' everyone'

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Tell It Like You Mean It

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 2/17/2013 1:35:00 PM

'My mother's mother used to tell her a story and as is the nature of such stories my mother tells it to me. She often forgets that she has told it to me before and sometimes she remembers halfway through the telling and very rarely does she finish the telling of the tale.A brahmin once prayed for an answer from the gods above. He was poor and his lot in life was of the troubled kind. He had a dream the same night and the night after and the night after and so the dream came to him ti(...)'

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Holy Motors

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 12/14/2012 10:20:00 AM

'Storytelling is bad, poetry is worse.It is not at all funny how something you said ages ago comes back to take a bite-sized chunk out of your backside. I don’t understand “poetry” and I am not alone. A lot of people do not understand it and yet they trade in it, revel in their own sickeningly sweet verses, preferring corn syrup to real blood. Beat poets? Gladly! Would you say poetry is obsolete? I wouldn’t go that far.It is a force of the past. So is cinema. I have no patience for a(...)'

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survival jam, I

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 10/31/2012 5:48:00 PM

'when i saw you stagger through the door, bradshaw"honey, grab the baseball bat, i'll grab the chainsaw"i sliced through your soft decaying head like breadi tore through your guts and your blood flowed red---you died on christmas day and came back to me with a ravenous hungeryou never liked my cooking and now you wanted to eat it andi was surprisedbut then you started eating everything and i mean everythingmoth ballsthe linenphotosmy favourite shoesthe sofabut when you went for dog i(...)'

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Real Spammers Don't Reply, Mr. 27bslash6

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 10/7/2012 2:41:00 PM

'Payment Purpose: Inheritance Fund ReleasePayment Value: $5,500,000.00 dollarsAuthorized Paying Bank: Union Bank of NigeriaTransaction Reference Code: UBN/KTT/27890/0000/002Payment Approval Date:21/9/2012Dear Beneficiary,My name is DR. JOHN EZE. I am the newly appointed Director Union BankOf Nigeria and the 10th Director of the Union Bank of Nigeria. Iassumed duty as Director, Union Bank of Nigeria on June 4, 2012 at theBank's Corporate Head Office in Abuja following the confirmation(...)'

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Super Mario's Brother

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 9/23/2012 5:54:00 PM

'"Questa non è una pipa!"[which translates to "This is not a pipe!"]It was a sunny day and he was having an acid flashback with his breakfast. He was also watching his something on YouTube which is why he said what he said.That morning he had received a call from his mother and, as anyone who has ever gotten a call from their mother, on a particularly fine morning  will tell you, he was not feeling adequate. Something was always the matter with mother.He took another mushro(...)'

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Daughter Dear

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 9/9/2012 1:45:00 PM

'"It is uncomfortable being dead for long periods. There is a whole lot of inactivity involved in it. Folk don't usually call for it but when they do they usually end up getting it.On the outskirts of the world, where I rest, a group gathered. There is snow everywhere. Snow and relics. The seat of the emperor of the world. The group chanted it religiously. They inched their way through the white blanket towards an abandoned factory. Man beaten by Nature.The factory grounds are covere(...)'

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The Disappearing Man

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 9/8/2012 6:30:00 PM

'Tall Jim got off the tram near the Bananas. The Bananas was the finest hotel this side of the district divide. Tall Jim had a room there and he was in a hurry to get in. Out of sight.He had a case with him and was dressed as shady men are wont to dress. He stopped to check if he had been tailed. He walked into the lobby, smiled at the manager and went on up to his room.He stuck his key in the lock and jarred the door open. He threw his case in a chair and walked to the lamp to switc(...)'

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Two Murders, One Stone

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 7/29/2012 4:11:00 PM

'It is the first morning of a new year and a federation guard stands infront of the bank. The bank wall features prominent graffiti and lurid posters.He is new here. He is married and he is new and he is thinking about his lovely wife and dreaming about their house.He is distracted.An old woman dodders into the panel. She is non-descript except for a red scarf that is flimsy protection against the perennial winter. She carries a cane and a bag. That peculiar old people scent precedes(...)'

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Department of Department of Prognostication and Prestidigitation

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 7/1/2012 5:35:00 PM

'Everytime, I get off the 123 Elephant, I get that feeling. Like stepping off a bus in a foreign country. You are new and you have nothing on you but paper money and directions written in a code that you don't know how to decrypt. You know? That is how I feel, everytime, I get off that tramline. And this time, oh boy, I was going to the Bureau. Someone there took pity on me and finally agreed to see me.I mean, Harvey wasn't the sort to run off. He was loving and gentle and kind and l(...)'

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The Beast

Author : nik hill      Blog : Ionic      Date : 5/27/2012 7:58:00 AM

'It is here. That time. It creeps up slowly today. I rise slowly from my bed. I open my eyes and I see darkness all around. Nothing else.I stumble around till I find the door. I walk outside. There are woods surrounding my cottage and they are darker still. I spot a moonlit clearing in the distance and run towards it. I stumble. I trip. I almost fall. I strip off my clothes. There is a rush of blood to my head. I take a deep breath and sit down. Long, red grass surrounds me. I wait. (...)'

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