Jacking-Off Log

[tortoise]

When I heard that my favorite living american author had decided to tell the tale that is at the bottom of my nightmares, I was pretty blown away. I think he pulled it off.

The same exact story in the hands of almost any other author would be a steaming pile of florid crap. McCarthy's tone is absolutely essential to make it work. Unblinking, unflinching, obsidian sharp. Stripped bare like the charred trees that dot the ashy landscape, and just as beautiful. The prose perfectly reflects the sense of forever plodding forward, not out of hope, but because the alternative is unthinkable.

Heh. Hijacking the jack thread to discuss literature.

 

[rosco rathbone]

The same exact story in the hands of almost any other author would be a steaming pile of florid crap. McCarthy's tone is absolutely essential to make it work. Unblinking, unflinching, obsidian sharp. Stripped bare like the charred trees that dot the ashy landscape, and just as beautiful. The prose perfectly reflects the sense of forever plodding forward, not out of hope, but because the alternative is unthinkable.

Heh. Hijacking the jack thread to discuss literature.

It's my thread and McCarthy will be discussed.

I didn't like the All The Pretty Horses books at all; even though I knew exactly what he was trying to do and thought it a worthy goal. I think he finally got it right with this one. To bring the King James/Melville/Faulkner grandeur to the people and slip it under the radar.

 

[tortoise]

It's my thread and McCarthy will be discussed.

I didn't like the All The Pretty Horses books at all; even though I knew exactly what he was trying to do and thought it a worthy goal. I think he finally got it right with this one. To bring the King James/Melville/Faulkner grandeur to the people and slip it under the radar.

I rather enjoyed The Crossing, but I've always had a thing for lobos. The first book in the trilogy was by far my least favorite.

In The Road, McCarthy's grandeur is stripped of artifice. Lean, sinewy, sharp. The perfect author for that story, for those characters. Not a breath is wasted.

 

[rosco rathbone]

McCarthy's grandeur is stripped of artifice.

I think that's what he has been trying to do. To keep the grandeur and lose the fireworks. His early (and greatly beloved by me) books are totally inhuman.

This makes me want to make lists of apocalypse greats

Riddley Walker
Dawn Of The Dead
The Road
Doctor Bloodmoney

 

[tortoise]

I think that's what he has been trying to do. To keep the grandeur and lose the fireworks. His early (and greatly beloved by me) books are totally inhuman.

This makes me want to make lists of apocalypse greats

Riddley Walker
Dawn Of The Dead
The Road
Doctor Bloodmoney

He couldn't continue on in the vein of Blood Meridian and retain his sanity. A sea change was needed.

I liked A Canticle for Leibowitz, but I read it as a teenager. Not certain how it would hold up if I read it today.

Parts of Dhalgren come close to great. I'm not sure if it counts, though, as the "apocalypse" is confined to one city (and not even a real apocalypse).

 

[cjh]

why doesn't jim harrison get any threadtime?

though, i suppose, he may be better suited for the foodgasm thread.

 

[tortoise]

why doesn't jim harrison get any threadtime?

though, i suppose, he may be better suited for the foodgasm thread.

I was just thumbing through his latest collection of poems the other day in the bookstore. Saving Daylight? Something like that. Good stuff. I think he has a new novel coming out, too.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Canticle, how could I forget that one.

The only JH book I've read is the one where they blow up the dam.

 

[cjh]

I was just thumbing through his latest collection of poems the other day in the bookstore. Saving Daylight? Something like that. Good stuff. I think he has a new novel coming out, too.

that's it.

synchronicity. just today siegrid bought "true north" for her book club.

here's a blurb off the back: "full-meal harrison, weaving together philosophy, religion, sex, sensuality, a love of animals, poetry, food, and an elegiac appreciation for the natural world... ."

nothing about onan's sin, though.

 

[bridgeburner]

There's been a dearth of jacking in my life of late --- the holiday, travel, homework, hormonal levels at a lull, life issues and cold hands. Did manage one last night that was quite good so maybe I'm on the upswing again. Now that I've got the heat working in my apartment I won't have to worry about the cold hands issue anymore. Plus, I always feel ridiculous trying to jack in a stocking cap.

 

[Purrrfect_Chaz]

Waiting to Jerk it

I dont know if im gonna fuck tonight so i dont want to jump the gun.

 

[Hester]

There's been a dearth of jacking in my life of late --- the holiday, travel, homework, hormonal levels at a lull, life issues and cold hands. Did manage one last night that was quite good so maybe I'm on the upswing again. Now that I've got the heat working in my apartment I won't have to worry about the cold hands issue anymore. Plus, I always feel ridiculous trying to jack in a stocking cap.

yay! you're baaaaaack!!!

 

[luxey313]

So many nice J's in this thread lately.

 

[YaYa_Sisterwho]

jack - yesterday

area - living room/computer room

strength - 8/10

fantasy - whore. use me. rough. hurt me. humilation. slap me. angry. choke me. vent. words kept running through my head the whole time. want to have it so hard that i don't know if i liked it. so hard that even though i never said no, i feel assaulted.

notes - slammed my dildo in and out -as hard as i could- until i came, my pussy still hurts today.

 

[spacekowboy]

Plus, I always feel ridiculous trying to jack in a stocking cap.

Ha! i'm sitting here with a stocking cap on and my hand in my drawers. I had to laugh.

 

[tortoise]

notes - slammed my dildo in and out -as hard as i could- until i came, my pussy still hurts today.

*throatgrowl*

YaYas

 

[bridgeburner]

Ha! i'm sitting here with a stocking cap on and my hand in my drawers. I had to laugh.

Yeah, but I can see the sexy in that. Guys can be sexy when they're being goofy, somehow that just never works for me on the female end.

 

[evesdream]

....

Anyhow I jayed this morning to something so fucked, so wrong, that I don't feel good about telling the fantasy. It was a first and halfway though I was going to myself, I can't believe you are jacking off and thinking about this. You aren't gonna o to this image, no, no oh fuck. *pop*

You had a no!no!no! O!
welcome to my world.

 

[tortoise]

My father sent that to my for my birthday. I think it might be the finest of McCarthy's new style. I really loved it, but I'm a sucker because that scenario is one the building blocks of my psyche.

Nobody wants to leave and nobody wants to stay

I didn't know if I was depressed or elated by that book. It's a career ender, he could die now on a high note.

Finished it. Haunted. I don't know that he can possibly top it, but it will be fun to see him try.

I am struck by the certainty that NOBODY else could have written this novel. Only McCarthy, and only at this point in his career. He wouldn't have had the discipline before now, the restraint. It also strikes me that the bleakest McCarthy book is also the only one completely suffused with love.

A perfect execution of his considerable powers. I'm going to add The Road to my "re-read yearly" pile, along with Blood Meridian and Suttree.

 

[spacekowboy]

Yeah, but I can see the sexy in that. Guys can be sexy when they're being goofy, somehow that just never works for me on the female end.

Yeah , but cold hands suck . I should run them under some hot water first or something.

 

[stirbird]

You had a no!no!no! O!
welcome to my world.

LOL!

"No!No!No! O!" ought to go into the urban dictionary or whatever that one is that you guys are sending your new words to.

 

[tortoise]

Yeah , but cold hands suck . I should run them under some hot water first or something.

You know what they say. Cold hands, warm hardon.

 

[tortoise]

LOL!

"No!No!No! O!" ought to go into the urban dictionary or whatever that one is that you guys are sending your new words to.

It should! A perfect description.

 

[tortoise]

Yeah, but I can see the sexy in that. Guys can be sexy when they're being goofy, somehow that just never works for me on the female end.

I think goofy can be incredibly sexy in a female.

Then again, I'm more than a little off-kilter, so...

 

[Hester]

was cleaning the house today in preparation for houseguests and got the overwhelming urge to hesturbate. i ran upstairs, got out a couple of my more unconventional toys, and for some reason decided to go in the closet, drop my pants around my knees, and do my psychosexual housecleaning while standing and leaning against the closet wall.