Chip Cobb
@unperfectchorus.bsky.social
Peaceful political discourse. Neurospicy idealist. Writing for a better world.
Get a free PDF of my book, "Parasocial Activity: A Memoir in the Key of Science Fiction," on my website:
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Get a free PDF of my book, "Parasocial Activity: A Memoir in the Key of Science Fiction," on my website:
www.chipcobb.com
Or on my Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/ChipCobb
Okay, been sober for six months as of today. Here we go.
October 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Okay, been sober for six months as of today. Here we go.
Hrmm. Again had a rather strange thing happen: someone told me that I should cut what I thought were the three most personally important chapters and the most relevant to my growth/journey on the train. Does this mean I wrote them wrong, or just that it's an inherently hard story to grasp?
October 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Hrmm. Again had a rather strange thing happen: someone told me that I should cut what I thought were the three most personally important chapters and the most relevant to my growth/journey on the train. Does this mean I wrote them wrong, or just that it's an inherently hard story to grasp?
It sounds crazy, but I think I've just located *yet more* memories that were part of the initial wild plan I first proposed. Well, it's too late to add them to the book, now. But I certainly have more to write about later.
(And yeah, perhaps I'm confabulating more in distress over radio silence.)
(And yeah, perhaps I'm confabulating more in distress over radio silence.)
October 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It sounds crazy, but I think I've just located *yet more* memories that were part of the initial wild plan I first proposed. Well, it's too late to add them to the book, now. But I certainly have more to write about later.
(And yeah, perhaps I'm confabulating more in distress over radio silence.)
(And yeah, perhaps I'm confabulating more in distress over radio silence.)
It's weird how long I've been sober now, without really focusing on it. September 21st will be 5 months from alcohol, and the 28th will be 5 months from weed.
September 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
It's weird how long I've been sober now, without really focusing on it. September 21st will be 5 months from alcohol, and the 28th will be 5 months from weed.
Read my memoir, which is (in part) about what happens when @thedailyshow.com and @lastweektonight.com start sending you secret messages...and about what happens when you tell that to doctors.
Parasocial Activity: A Memoir in the Key of Science Fiction
Get a free PDF on my site: www.chipcobb.com
Parasocial Activity: A Memoir in the Key of Science Fiction
Get a free PDF on my site: www.chipcobb.com
Chip Cobb
www.chipcobb.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Read my memoir, which is (in part) about what happens when @thedailyshow.com and @lastweektonight.com start sending you secret messages...and about what happens when you tell that to doctors.
Parasocial Activity: A Memoir in the Key of Science Fiction
Get a free PDF on my site: www.chipcobb.com
Parasocial Activity: A Memoir in the Key of Science Fiction
Get a free PDF on my site: www.chipcobb.com
Letting go is hard. But I think I can declare my memoir finally done.
Made sure to make this post publicly-accessible, so you don't need to be signed into Patreon to read (still new at this).
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@lastweektonight.com @thedailyshow.com @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
Made sure to make this post publicly-accessible, so you don't need to be signed into Patreon to read (still new at this).
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@lastweektonight.com @thedailyshow.com @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
Parasocial Activity: A Memoir in Science Fiction (v 2.3.45) | Chip Cobb
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September 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Letting go is hard. But I think I can declare my memoir finally done.
Made sure to make this post publicly-accessible, so you don't need to be signed into Patreon to read (still new at this).
www.patreon.com/posts/138898...
@lastweektonight.com @thedailyshow.com @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
Made sure to make this post publicly-accessible, so you don't need to be signed into Patreon to read (still new at this).
www.patreon.com/posts/138898...
@lastweektonight.com @thedailyshow.com @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
It's hard to let go. There's so much more to tell of the process, even if I finally know where it all lands.
September 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It's hard to let go. There's so much more to tell of the process, even if I finally know where it all lands.
Deadlines suuuuuuuck
But I'm okay
But I'm okay
September 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Deadlines suuuuuuuck
But I'm okay
But I'm okay
Le siiiiiiigh.
But it's for realsies almost done.
Worth the wait.
Stuck the landing.
(Have a few fixes still, but definitely goin' up sometime tonight; swearsies realsies, and yeah I'm bad at deadlines.)
But done with the end.
And I stuck the fucking landing.
Even if it's long and late.
But it's for realsies almost done.
Worth the wait.
Stuck the landing.
(Have a few fixes still, but definitely goin' up sometime tonight; swearsies realsies, and yeah I'm bad at deadlines.)
But done with the end.
And I stuck the fucking landing.
Even if it's long and late.
September 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Le siiiiiiigh.
But it's for realsies almost done.
Worth the wait.
Stuck the landing.
(Have a few fixes still, but definitely goin' up sometime tonight; swearsies realsies, and yeah I'm bad at deadlines.)
But done with the end.
And I stuck the fucking landing.
Even if it's long and late.
But it's for realsies almost done.
Worth the wait.
Stuck the landing.
(Have a few fixes still, but definitely goin' up sometime tonight; swearsies realsies, and yeah I'm bad at deadlines.)
But done with the end.
And I stuck the fucking landing.
Even if it's long and late.
Lmao. Still writing.
September 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Lmao. Still writing.
I'm probably not gonna' finish by midnight, so I guess technically I'm blowing the August 31st deadline I set for myself. But I'll be done sometime tonight.
Surreal feeling.
Wee-hours of September 1st is good enough for me at this point.
Surreal feeling.
Wee-hours of September 1st is good enough for me at this point.
September 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I'm probably not gonna' finish by midnight, so I guess technically I'm blowing the August 31st deadline I set for myself. But I'll be done sometime tonight.
Surreal feeling.
Wee-hours of September 1st is good enough for me at this point.
Surreal feeling.
Wee-hours of September 1st is good enough for me at this point.
Much left to do. Luckily, done with structural/organizational changes (and the missing-but-necessary story inclusions). A couple-few days now to just focus on streamlining and flow.
Still aiming to post by the end of the month.
We shall see. Feeling hopeful.
(He says to the void.)
Still aiming to post by the end of the month.
We shall see. Feeling hopeful.
(He says to the void.)
August 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Much left to do. Luckily, done with structural/organizational changes (and the missing-but-necessary story inclusions). A couple-few days now to just focus on streamlining and flow.
Still aiming to post by the end of the month.
We shall see. Feeling hopeful.
(He says to the void.)
Still aiming to post by the end of the month.
We shall see. Feeling hopeful.
(He says to the void.)
Just hit on a plausible solution to a year-long wording problem.
August 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Just hit on a plausible solution to a year-long wording problem.
Just a few weeks left. Aiming to be done with the book by the end of the month.
August 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Just a few weeks left. Aiming to be done with the book by the end of the month.
I keep seeing people comment that em dashes are a sign of AI writing. I call shenanigans. I am a huge fan of the em dash and use it all the time—even incorrectly sometimes because I like it so much.
July 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I keep seeing people comment that em dashes are a sign of AI writing. I call shenanigans. I am a huge fan of the em dash and use it all the time—even incorrectly sometimes because I like it so much.
How do I know when I'm done? Fawk. Running it by an editor would take like...months.
Also, had a *wild* conversation with an old friend who had experienced something shockingly similar. Both in what he believed, and in how his doctors reacted.
Does posting here count as screaming into the void?
Also, had a *wild* conversation with an old friend who had experienced something shockingly similar. Both in what he believed, and in how his doctors reacted.
Does posting here count as screaming into the void?
July 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
How do I know when I'm done? Fawk. Running it by an editor would take like...months.
Also, had a *wild* conversation with an old friend who had experienced something shockingly similar. Both in what he believed, and in how his doctors reacted.
Does posting here count as screaming into the void?
Also, had a *wild* conversation with an old friend who had experienced something shockingly similar. Both in what he believed, and in how his doctors reacted.
Does posting here count as screaming into the void?
Okay, did the program. Therapist was chill. Doctor still gets a booooooo. Acronyms still silly as hell. We shall see how this whole book situation goes.
July 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Okay, did the program. Therapist was chill. Doctor still gets a booooooo. Acronyms still silly as hell. We shall see how this whole book situation goes.
Jk. Spent today underlining the idea that I was manic. He was polite and all, but he pretty clearly doesn't actually believe me.
June 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Jk. Spent today underlining the idea that I was manic. He was polite and all, but he pretty clearly doesn't actually believe me.
Definitely having weird moments of questioning myself already, especially in the bipolar groups.
Luckily the new therapist believes me. (Or at least he's willing to act like he does.)
That feels really good for once.
Luckily the new therapist believes me. (Or at least he's willing to act like he does.)
That feels really good for once.
June 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Definitely having weird moments of questioning myself already, especially in the bipolar groups.
Luckily the new therapist believes me. (Or at least he's willing to act like he does.)
That feels really good for once.
Luckily the new therapist believes me. (Or at least he's willing to act like he does.)
That feels really good for once.
Hoooookay. Reorganization complete. Revision not particularly close to done, but I moved all the assorted things around into what ought to be something at least resembling a readable and coherent plot. Maybe. We shall see. Too close to it right now to judge.
June 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Hoooookay. Reorganization complete. Revision not particularly close to done, but I moved all the assorted things around into what ought to be something at least resembling a readable and coherent plot. Maybe. We shall see. Too close to it right now to judge.
Intake for another Partial Hospitalization Program later this week. Lots of writing before then, but undoubtedly some of what I need to write will benefit from what I get in treatment.
June 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Intake for another Partial Hospitalization Program later this week. Lots of writing before then, but undoubtedly some of what I need to write will benefit from what I get in treatment.
I can't put it all back together. Need to be okay with that. I got the political show plan on the first try, but I figured it out. But still, there are infinitely many tiny pieces. Can't collect them all. Gotta' find the okay-with-that.
May 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I can't put it all back together. Need to be okay with that. I got the political show plan on the first try, but I figured it out. But still, there are infinitely many tiny pieces. Can't collect them all. Gotta' find the okay-with-that.
Found it. Wording is hella approximate, but I found the ideas by shape of the absences. As predicted.
Now to organize legibly.
Now to organize legibly.
May 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Found it. Wording is hella approximate, but I found the ideas by shape of the absences. As predicted.
Now to organize legibly.
Now to organize legibly.
Okay here we go. Getting rid of some of the placeholder plans. It's wild how error-checking memory works in my brain. Sometimes I have to write in placeholders, which I just black-box until I find the remnants. (Or until I make them up? Lol at human memory.)
May 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Okay here we go. Getting rid of some of the placeholder plans. It's wild how error-checking memory works in my brain. Sometimes I have to write in placeholders, which I just black-box until I find the remnants. (Or until I make them up? Lol at human memory.)
To interlace or to partition further? Yikes. Hard to say which is better. Or which is easier to read. The former is closer to the experiential nonlinearity of memory, and latter more representative of the real-world timeline.
Argh.
Obviously, I'm not going to solve it all tonight.
Argh.
Obviously, I'm not going to solve it all tonight.
May 28, 2025 at 5:18 AM
To interlace or to partition further? Yikes. Hard to say which is better. Or which is easier to read. The former is closer to the experiential nonlinearity of memory, and latter more representative of the real-world timeline.
Argh.
Obviously, I'm not going to solve it all tonight.
Argh.
Obviously, I'm not going to solve it all tonight.