September 2011
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I'm married, but...
An essay in continued feelings of inadequacy.
I think the main thing I get out of Facebook is seeing girls I knew in high school and college dating, engaged, or married to dudes who are way doofier looking than me.
Did I have a shot and not know it?
Did their standards lower?
Were they always with doofy looking guys?
Do guys look at my wife’s profile on Facebook and wonder these same...
DC Pierson: It's Only Homework If You Read Shit... →
dcpierson:
The goal seems to be to be seen with books, but the important relationship between a set of eyes and their subject when it comes to books is between your eyes and the page.
And I know it feels like homework to you. I’m sorry your formative experiences with the written word were ones of drudgery…
Elastic Spaces
brianlevibowman:
2 new frames for a project I am working on.
The Shy Trivia Night Host
An ode to to the anonymous trivia host at Sunswick’s “Trivia Night”
“Oh God.” He covered his mouth. Did he say that out loud? Did they hear or see him? He darted back into the men’s room and vomited, just barely making it to a toilet.
The group was there again. For trivia night. The two brunette girls, one short and one tall. A tall blonde guy and a bearded...
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"_____" is "_____" Backwards! They're gonna eat...
My favorite horror ‘twist’ is when a sign or name in the story is figured out to be an anagram or the reverse of something sinister.
See “Nilbog is Goblin backwards!” in Troll 2 or the episode of Tales from the Crypt where the protagonist discovers the first letters of some neighborhood organization spell out “GHOULS.”
I don’t mean favorite in any...
