Twitter Updates for 2008-12-03

• Two new blog posts. The first is where I get an apprentice. http://snipr.com/72lga... #
• …and the second, is her first post. http://snipr.com/72lh3 #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-12-03

• Two new blog posts. The first is where I get an apprentice. http://snipr.com/72lga... #
• …and the second, is her first post. http://snipr.com/72lh3 #

Word Counts - Today: 0 | December: 0 | 2008: 21,998

Twitter Updates for 2008-12-03

• Two new blog posts. The first is where I get an apprentice. http://snipr.com/72lga... #
• …and the second, is her first post. http://snipr.com/72lh3 #

Word Counts - Today: 0 | December: 0 | 2008: 21,998

Twitter Updates for 2008-12-03

• Two new blog posts. The first is where I get an apprentice. http://snipr.com/72lga... #
• …and the second, is her first post. http://snipr.com/72lh3 #

Word Counts - Today: 0 | December: 0 | 2008: 21,998

Twitter Updates for 2008-12-03

• Two new blog posts. The first is where I get an apprentice. http://snipr.com/72lga... #
• …and the second, is her first post. http://snipr.com/72lh3 #

Word Counts - Today: 0 | December: 0 | 2008: 21,998

Twitter Updates for 2008-12-03

• Two new blog posts. The first is where I get an apprentice. http://snipr.com/72lga... #
• …and the second, is her first post. http://snipr.com/72lh3 #

Word Counts - Today: 0 | December: 0 | 2008: 21,998

*Gulp*

My first public rant. It’s intimidating. It’s one thing to bitch to myself in hopes that anything I write will spontaneously combust the very instant I die and quite another to open up, knowing at least one other person will read this. It’s very easy to dismiss the need to censor whilst living in infantile fantasy that no one else will ever read the nasty crap I thought about the world at large and the individuals near and dear to me. Ah, well. Time to face reality. This is actually probably safer for ranting than a stack of tantalizing notebooks sitting in the bottom of my closet just waiting for my family to read at their leisure after I’ve kicked the bucket.

One last disclaimer before I begin. I will visit and revisit only a few topics many times over and probably never offer much more material. I never advertised original thought or creativity.

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Use your anger, my young Apprentice.

You know that old saying “Those who can, do, those who can’t, teach”? That usually applies to people who think they know about shit. I know that everyone has had one of those teachers where it was there way or the highway. You don’t learn from folks like that.

There is another setup though, one where one person who has mastered a skill takes time to mentor another person, show them the ropes. The Master/Apprentice thing has been going on for a long, long time. With out it, there wouldn’t be some of the professions needed to make the world go round. Carpenters, plumbers, locksmiths, all of these folks use that Master/Apprentice setup.

Well, here’s another one to add to that list: Asshole.

Those of you that know me will agree that I’m a Master Asshole, not to mention Evil Genius, Writer of Superior Caliber, and Teuthological Pimp.¹

Anyways, 90% of being and asshole is saying what’s on your mind, which I have no problem doing, and I was approached by a young woman that wants to learn how to be more asshole like and say what’s on her mind. Seeing as how I enjoy corrupting the youth of America, I decided to take her under my wing and bring her a little further out of her shell.²

And thus, I have acquired an apprentice. I’m the creepy old blind Shaolin to her decidedly not Chinese David Carradine, receiving lessons in the way of the asshole. The current one is about verbalizing in a public forum, which brings me to the reason for this post.

Grasshopper, as she will be known, will be posting stuff here at UhWhat as part of her training. The plan calls for two posts a week, and, with any luck, she’ll motivate me to do the same.

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1. at least according to Matt fucking Wallace [↩]
2. a rather cute little shell, but that’s beside the point [↩]

Twitter Updates for 2008-11-15

• @sethharwood Too late. I made the mistake of blogging that Infected was cool and he touched me inappropriately with a blog comment. #

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