Hipster meat. Yum.

June 26, 2005 8:08 AM

As if living in NY wasn't hard enough, this poor guy seems to have gotten himself bitten by something nasty.

Usually, I hate the whole "blog as meta-fiction" thing, but this is saved by good writing and a nice sense of humor. It's a bit annoying that the archives make you start at the bottom, but it's still a fun read. Make sure to check the comments. I still can't decide if the teenagers are part of the fiction, or they thought it was real....
posted by lumpenprole (15 comments total)

I'd find these a lot more believable if there was a chunk of real-life boring blog fare before they launched into their main "story"
posted by RubiX^3 at 8:29 AM on June 26, 2005

The "first posts" wouldn't be lsited as recent posts either :)
posted by RubiX^3 at 8:32 AM on June 26, 2005

The misspellings and the leaden prose didn't do too much for me either.
posted by kozad at 8:41 AM on June 26, 2005

even scarier, look at the comments for the first post:

Kirk, I wonder when will you write that this was all a story...
First of all, I am a real werewolf and what this man is telling you is nothing real but a good story.
posted by Mach5 at 9:04 AM on June 26, 2005

...and the result is an optioned screenplay! Congrats to Mr. Duncan!
posted by mwhybark at 9:41 AM on June 26, 2005

Hah! Duncan used to be the Editor-in-Chief for Jest Magazine -- check out their back issues.
posted by event at 10:12 AM on June 26, 2005

hot!

posted by nervousfritz at 11:12 AM on June 26, 2005

From there, it was linked by all kinds of different sites, from Monkeyfilter, to Robotfilter to the Morning News

Metafilter - best of the web when everyone else is done with it!

Getting a screenplay is impressive though, it seems like this "blogging" thing can actually be useful.
posted by hugsnkisses at 11:31 AM on June 26, 2005

Are you sure you don't mean "pseudo-fiction?" When you said, "meta-fiction," I thought "Oh! Fiction about fiction! This should be fascinating!" I was disappointed.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 12:44 PM on June 26, 2005

Well, it's not Pseudo fiction since, presumably, this guy wasn't kind of bitten by a werewolf. You're right, tho, it's not metafiction either.

I guess I meant radical experiments with form. Mind you, as a horror story, the 'diary' entry has a good pedigree. I think this has been linked on Meta before:

http://infocult.typepad.com/dracula/

It's the novel Dracula posted as a blog. Pretty cool.

I still think the comments section of this thing is inetensly fascinating.
posted by lumpenprole at 4:52 PM on June 26, 2005

I was only disapointed by the total length. But, that is a compliment, in the end I wanted more.
posted by elwoodwiles at 5:53 PM on June 26, 2005

furries...
posted by joelf at 6:38 PM on June 26, 2005

I've been doing something similar to this for my own satisfaction, and I started it all off with a few weeks of near-mind-numbingly-boring crap before getting into the good stuff.
Completely different theme though. Damn furries.
posted by nightchrome at 7:13 PM on June 26, 2005

Pretty disappointing. It's no Ted the Caver. While we're on the topic, does anyone know of a currently accessible version of "I found a digital camera in the woods?"
posted by rush at 1:13 PM on June 27, 2005

Ritch is a friend of mine, and I was pleased to hear he got his script optioned. He needs something to keep him from sitting around his apartment in his underwear.

He's also been a stand-up for years, and you can see him perform around the city fairly regularly.
posted by dkirk78 at 11:42 AM on June 28, 2005