ArticlesThis line of thought occurred to me last night; I am just putting it down here until I find a better place to put it.
Have you ever considered the strengths and weaknesses of the people you know? Have you ever wanted to take one good part from one friend, another part from another friend… and just left the rest of them there, bleeding where they lay?
Comment by James on October 23, 2008
its a reasonable price to pay to make the UBER FRIEND!
Comment by Alastair on October 23, 2008
What did you do with the good bits of this blog post? 🙂
Comment by Aristotle Pagaltzis on October 24, 2008
Alastair: oh snap!
Comment by Chris on October 24, 2008
Just because Julian wants to piece together a friend from parts doesn’t mean you have to take up torches and pitchforks and storm his
bloglab.Comment by Alan Green on October 26, 2008
Are we all going to get friendship performance reviews?
Comment by Andrew on October 26, 2008
You’ll know Julian likes you if he takes a piece of you for his FrankenFriend. The more he likes you, the more he’ll take. No review required.
Comment by Julian on October 27, 2008
Thank you for your feedback. I’ve learnt that I need to reword the punchline.
The punchline should fully dispel the impression that I plan to create an über Frankenfriend.
It should leave no doubt that my motivation (or at least that of the narrator, whoever that turns out to be) is entirely driven by the pleasure of the suffering of the old friends, not by the hope of the a new friend.
Comment by Andrew on October 31, 2008
A bunch of us are going to go round to Julian’s house next week, dig up his rose gardens, and plant pictures of baby elephants on his hard drive.
Then we’re going to carve our names in his kitchen floor, just to make sure he knows we’re not his friends. Can’t be too careful!