Invisible monsters on weekend update!

This post takes the idea from this amazing article by Ben Branstetter and applies it to one of my favorite contemporary authors. Hope you enjoy!


Seth Myers: It’s Halloween, and families all across the country are planning visits to the city. Here with some tips on the best locales is Weekend Update’s City Correspondent, Chuck Palahniuk!

Chuck Palahniuk: This is your life and it’s ending one moment at a time.

SM: Ohh… Okkkay. So do you have any advice for things to do for people flocking to the city for Halloween?

CP: The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

SM: …Alright. Do you have any more concrete suggestions of things for people to do? Like things that should not be missed in the city for Halloween?

CP: No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.

SM: Uh, so what are maybe some concrete ideas for things tourists can do here in the city if they aren't sure what they want?

CP: If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

SM: Chuck Palahniuk everyone!