Showing posts with label RL Stine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RL Stine. Show all posts

Random Writing number one

By GARY

I am going to try and start posting some hopefully funny writings that I randomly do. They have no point, but I guess that is the point.....trippy isn't it.


I always wanted to be a writer. I always wanted to write something, and something I wrote. I wrote poems, biographies, and Goosebumps rip offs. The more I wrote the more I was filled with false encouragement, perhaps; that is too cynical. Some of the encouragement may have been somewhat deserved, but a lot of it was the fact that the adults around me never read a Goosebumps book and were unaware that 90% of my stories was just last month's R.L Stine book. My uncle just fours years older than me and my co-author would not be so kind as to let my blatant plagiarism go unnoticed especially, when it came to the story "Bee Car[e]ful What You Wish For!" a somewhat debatable plagrism of the Goosebumps "Be Careful What You Wish For!". Much like Vanilla Ice just a few years before me I argrued, "Stine's goes 'Ding ding ding dingy ding-ding.'...mine goes 'Ding ding ding ding dingy ding-ding.'"in my story the main character got turned into a bee not a bird like in Stine's creepy crawly tale.....it's completely different, but not unlike the Goosebumps were the boy gets turned into a bee. The adults were also not enough of TV sitcom scholars to know how factually inaccurate my Drew Carey Biography really was. I do think on some level I am a good writer, and people seem to read it and nod their heads slowly, smile at me, and hand back the paper I have just written. They usually say "that is good", "you should be a writer", and, "why is your grammar so awful?".

I slowly got away from writing. I dove into the dark underworld of Magic: Gathering. Every Saturday was the ultimate in nerd Church: Wake up eat some kind of wacky Cartoon/comic/TV show--based cereal, pop in a fresh recordable VHS hit record--watch/record the latest episode of MST3K-- all the while trying in vein to edit out the commercials by "hand", then I would head to the Card Shop...get my fix by way of a Mirage set booster pack, and like an alley way junkies we all circled up and injected ourselves with the wonderful drug MtG. This drug felt amazing. It made you feel like you had 20 lives and could fend off a 5/5 Shvian dragon. The aforementioned Uncle and I would than spend the rest of the evening playing video games, watching Mr. Bean and WCW Saturday Night "The Mother-ship". I still wrote--only this time it was fake Magic Cards. I designed such memorable cards as the "Child Molester", and one hilariously lampooning the Card Shop owner....or maybe those were the same card.

RL Stine's #1 Fan

By Jake

This was a performance art piece I performed in the winter of 2002. I played the part of the lovable Goosebumps' titles spouting Num1RLstineFan. He is tormented by his own inner demons and in a downward spiral due to perpetual heroin abuse. This was his last cry for help, but was he to be taken seriously? No. Nothing I ever do is taken seriously. Yesterday I took an aspirin. Even that wasn't taken seriously.

Playing the part of the confused ADL1382 is none other than Judith Light (of Who's the Boss? fame). In this Judith stunningly captured a person who had no idea what was happening. She acted as if she didn't spend her childhood reading Goosebumps books. She won the hearts of the audience at our only performance (The Special Winter Olympics of 2002).


Num1RLstineFan: (Covered by shadows) Hi, Let's Get Invisible.
ADL1382: (confused) Come again?
Num1RLstineFan: Nothing (he smirks), just saying Welcome to Camp Nightmare.
ADL1382: Well thank you.
Num1RLstineFan: You're very welcome. (Places finger on chin inquisitively) Does the 'A' in your name stand for Abominable Snowman of Pasadena?
ADL1382: No, but the 'L' stands for the Little Old Lady from Pasadena. (The lights go off to signify the darkness ADL is feeling at this moment. Ominous drums are pounding unrhythmically while a woman screams shrilly) Do you mind if I ask who you are?
Num1RLstineFan: I'm RL Stine's number 1 fan.
(The lights explode on like a million bolts of lightning hitting all at once. The woman screams so loud that the audience has to cover their ears at the realization)
ADL1382: I gathered that much.
(The drums and screaming stop. Everything is way too quiet. The lights are blinding everyone, letting nobody see Num1RLstineFan.)
Num1RLstineFan: Do you possibly know How I Got My Shrunken Head.
ADL1382: Some of his best work. Do you have a name?
Num1RLstineFan: Yeah, of course. I also have a Haunted Mask.
ADL1382: What is your real name?
(The scream starts up again, more shrill than before. At this point the audience's ears are bleeding and they're beginning to leave.)
Num1RLstineFan: You're asking far too many questions. Why can't you just sit back and enjoy Ghost Camp?
ADL1382: Have i ever met you before?
Num1RLstineFan: Yeah.
ADL1382: When?
Num1RLstineFan: When we were at Ghost Beach.
(The screaming stops.)
ADL1382: I have been advised to "initiate cyber sex." (During the stage play it should be noted that this was changed to "initiate real sex" and a coat rack advises her to do it.)
Num1RLstineFan: From whom?
ADL1382: An adviser (a coat rack).
Num1RLstineFan: Who might your adviser be? Is he an Egg Monster From Mars?
ADL1382: No, but he thinks that Piano Lessons can be Murder.
(Thunder roars killing everybody in the audience.)
Num1RLstineFan: Oh, and they can.
ADL1382: I would love to continue this, but i am very tired and i must get up early tomorrow.
Num1RLstineFan: Well, goodNight of the Living Dummy
(Bows.)

As you can see there are some fundamental flaws with this performance arts piece -- no feces for instance. It was not well received and the audience didn't follow their stage directions very well. Judith Light was great and backstage was a doll. She told me who the boss was, but I'm not allowed to say; you'll just have to watch the series finale to find out (there are several clues but they never outright say it).