Day 5 - 8,995 words so underground you can't even read them

















 I had a lot of fun writing today, added a lot of stuff that is totally irrelevant to the plot (mainly about hipsters) and a few things that are relevant to the plot. Emma is having her first day at the bakery, learning a few basics from Eduardo Encarnacion (including Martha Stewart's cookie-of-the-day) and then a couple of interesting people walk in. Enjoy!


             While he was teaching me how to use the espresso machine and coffee maker, a pair of men walked in. Leading the twosome was a man with a beard, thick rimmed black glasses, an unbuttoned American flag shirt exposing what could only be ironic chest hairs, wearing black shorts that were just a little bit too short, paired with ironic crocs, and he had finished the look off with an empty Budweiser can. Second was a man with rolled up pants held up by suspenders and no shoes, a dirty grey long sleeved V neck T shirt emblazoned with “Pitchfork 2010”, dark thick rimmed glasses and a beard.
            The two men were apparently having a loud debate about an article they had recently read. The article was called “Maximalism,(Min)imalism, and Temporal Distortion: Emilio Estevez and the Air Bombay Loafer”. American flag happened to think that Emilio had best portrayed the concept of liminality in his character, who was inevitably a representation of the chaotic, pluralistic, and information-drenched aspects of postmodern society. No-shoes argued that it was ludicrous to be discussing Emilio Estevez performance in The Mighty Ducks series, when it was so obvious that the best work of his career was in an uncredited role in Mission: Impossible, in which he had demonstrated the re/post/spacialities of counter-architectural hyper-contemporaneity. I did not understand a word they were saying, and I gave Eduardo a questioning look.

Comments

  1. Hahahahahaha I loved No-shoes and American Flag. Their postmodern take on Emilio Estevez and his oeuvre was utterly maximalist, and, I would argue, hyper-contemporaneous. Well played.

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  2. Very funny... can't wait to hear more about E5 and his baking antics.

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  3. I hope that E5 is just as inept at baking as he is at playing baseball with any level of skill. Also: the postmodern take on the Air Bombay Loafer was ingenius.

    Loved the excerpt. I'm glad that we all hate hipsters and postmodernism enough to constantly mock them in our novels.

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  4. Love it. Will these people come back?

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  5. Not sure if they will come back. They were mainly used to inject some humour, and bolster word count. For sure I am going to need those again, but who knows if American flag and no shoes are going to grace us with their presence or just go underground, never to be seen again.

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  6. That hipster has really mastered "the art of the roll." Speaking of which, it appears that Sam is on a "roll" of her own, with breathtakingly brilliant noveling. So so happy that E5 is in your book.

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