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Bartender
Snip from his website regarding the book:
I wrote and released an online, action-comedy novella called The Bartender. It was supposed to be a very long love letter to my two best friends and my older brothers, and then a few thousand people read it, which was nice of them. There was drinking, action, jokes and sex. It was the kind of story that I grew up reading and watching. The kind of story I grew up loving, the kind of story that got me interested in making stories in the first place.
It’s also a story where a bunch of guys save the day by pulling out lots of guns and firing until all of the problems go away, and it’s a story where the only female character in the entire book functions as, at one time or another, the nag, victim, sex object, traitor and eventually corpse.
So I’m getting rid of it. There are enough stories where the guys with the most guns win, and there are enough stories where women are underdeveloped sex props and target practice. We don’t need mine. And I don’t want anyone else to stumble on a story where a bunch of guys shoot a bunch of other guys as an answer and think “COOL!” So I’m deleting it, and it’s a very easy decision.
I wrote and released an online, action-comedy novella called The Bartender. It was supposed to be a very long love letter to my two best friends and my older brothers, and then a few thousand people read it, which was nice of them. There was drinking, action, jokes and sex. It was the kind of story that I grew up reading and watching. The kind of story I grew up loving, the kind of story that got me interested in making stories in the first place.
It’s also a story where a bunch of guys save the day by pulling out lots of guns and firing until all of the problems go away, and it’s a story where the only female character in the entire book functions as, at one time or another, the nag, victim, sex object, traitor and eventually corpse.
So I’m getting rid of it. There are enough stories where the guys with the most guns win, and there are enough stories where women are underdeveloped sex props and target practice. We don’t need mine. And I don’t want anyone else to stumble on a story where a bunch of guys shoot a bunch of other guys as an answer and think “COOL!” So I’m deleting it, and it’s a very easy decision.
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First published December 30, 2007
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About the author
Daniel O'Brien
5 books121 followersHead Writer and Creative Director of Video for Cracked.com. Co-creator/co-writer/co-star of Agents of Cracked and Cracked: After Hours.
O'Brien claims to have developed a fascination with presidents after a college professor told his class they could never be president. O'Brien took the professor's remark as a challenge and began researching presidential lives in order to emulate them and one day become president.
Instead of doing that, he wrote a book about presidents and named his dog after Andrew Jackson.
His dog has an excessive amount of hoodies that he doesn't like, and are impractical, given the hot average temperatures of Los Angeles, where O'Brien and his dog, Jackson reside.
O'Brien claims to have developed a fascination with presidents after a college professor told his class they could never be president. O'Brien took the professor's remark as a challenge and began researching presidential lives in order to emulate them and one day become president.
Instead of doing that, he wrote a book about presidents and named his dog after Andrew Jackson.
His dog has an excessive amount of hoodies that he doesn't like, and are impractical, given the hot average temperatures of Los Angeles, where O'Brien and his dog, Jackson reside.
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November 20, 2014
Obviously unpolished and in need of some further editing, but easy reading and pretty funny.
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