Week 2 Story: Taco Shack
Artist's interpretation of the Taco Shack (source)
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Introduction for NitroDubbz
image source Hello everyone. I am Nitrodubbz, the computer engineering student. You may know me from my other blog posts, such as: "my favorite place". The coolest thing about my major is how it makes companies want to hire me. Ideally if one of these companies wanted to pay me in exchange for my brainpower and hours of my life, I would just invest almost all of my income into real-estate and collect rent to supplement my income. Hopefully I move somewhere where housing is cheap, and the Federal Reserve's interest rates stay low. I guess I'll talk about books now. I recently re-read Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. It is a pretty good book. The book is absurdist, filled with contradictions now known as Catch-22's, a term coined by the novel. These contradictions exist within the well-defined rules and command structure of the USAAF, the predecessor to the Air Force of today. The point being to highlight the weaknesses of a rigid military system, and to contr...
First, this story was hilarious. Lines like "assembly-line style production, just as the Founding Fathers intended" and "He threw the broken pencil corpse into a mountain of snapped pencil corpses" had me laughing out loud. The image caption also cracked me up when I saw it the second time after reading your story. I hope you keep this sense of humor in your following stories! The one critic I have is that sometimes it was hard for me to tell who was talking in the dialogue sections. After reading the dialogue a second time I understood, but maybe including who is speaking in the same line of the quote might help the reader. This was a fun read! Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteI really liked your story. It was hilarious and engaging throughout. I like how you used themes from “the crab and the crane” story and integrated into your story. Also, I liked how you added plenty of dialogue between the characters. It made your story even more engaging. It was very impressing! Overall, I think that you did a great job.
ReplyDeleteHi Nitro!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I loved the story! It was a lot of fun and well written. I enjoyed the fact that you implemented Freudian theory into it and that you used a mnemonic device in the story. I used to use them with my grandmother when we would see different license plates. It wasn't to remember them, but it was just a bit of fun. We did use it to remember hers though, so that I would remember which was her car. I enjoyed how the whole plan backfired and how Sebastian wasn't fired, but had planned to leave anyways. Overall, I think the story was fantastic and I cannot wait to read more of your writings!