characteristic of the context
"Characteristic of the Context," November 3, 2022 (#307)
title from "The emergence and historical decay of the mash up" by Charles Fairchild (2017)
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (1996)
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman (2003)
Top Horn: Turned Gay by the Unicorn Pilots by Chuck Tingle (2015)
"The Life of Chuck" by Stephen King (2020)
Characteristic of the Context
You’re a giant. The problem is your shoulders are too big
so they lock a character in a room for five days and watch
the face of the storm. My blood boiling, I immediately turned around
the thought of the stacked vapidities in those waiting essays
with the tinsel still on them, dumped alongside the highway,
the incarnation of the early fifties sexual archetype. And
suddenly, I’m met with a strange humidity in the air, immediately
back in the days of “Hang On Sloopy” and “Brand New Cadillac.”
I felt like crap and not relaxed at all. I didn’t get any kind of
crux of the incongruity: For half of the “senior year”
making my way around the circle and pleasuring the monsters,
it seemed important to clear the books. The only time
you were standing right where you are now
was because certain friends of mine think
I can’t help but take one of them into my
shadowy flight of stairs to the cupola.
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