You explain one problem and people think it has a solution. But our problems are symptoms of the overriding theme of our lives.

I hung out with my friends on their rooftop yesterday. My friend shouted an easy suggestion to solve my comics problem earlier this week and elaborated upon the idea on the roof party. The rest of the afternoon consisted of ( Read more... )

You know, I've been wearing this orange wristband continually for maybe three years.

It's odd. I haven't dated in about three years. I dated a lot of girls in 2008 and then after the calendar changed, it was like magic, VOOM: no more smooches for me. It was quite difficult at first and I've struggled and tried and joined OKCupid and wrote and wrote ( Read more... )

Went into my roommate's room to fiddle with the Internet router plug. Held it together emotionally to not burst into tears. I'm a monster. That guy owns like nothing. My room is filled with so many comics that they literally form a carpeting. My feet touch paper, not floor.

I enjoy comics. I enjoy comic books. This is a horrific way to live. I hate ( Read more... )

Casual spoilers for The Avengers motion picture directed by Joss Whedon.

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What I miss most about being in a romantic relationship is having a willing audience for all of the silly things that I want to send text messages about. So I text dumbness to the wide open space of Twitter and somehow it isn't as fulfilling.

I read a headline that some scientists had determined that people have similar brainwaves of affinity for ( Read more... )

MoCCA 2012 is this weekend. It's four in the morning and I have to be at work in a few hours. But first a quick nap. But first I have to excavate my bed.

Listen to me, this time I mean it: no more "stuff." Comics are the absolute worst thing for a person like me. I see it, I like it, I buy it. It's like a mental disease. I want to read comics but ( Read more... )

By Ayo

[note: the following essay was written moments before reading Joel Stein's anti-Y.A. Article in The New York Times. Stein says: "The only time I'm O.K. with an adult holding a children's book is if he's moving his mouth as he reads."

I have decided to name this essay (and any future comments of mine) after him because I'm a jerk.]

YA Fiction ( Read more... )

Listening to an investigative journalist for the BBC talking to Canadian First Nations (we say "Native American") people in a small community ravaged by Oxycontin abuse.

BBC reporter: "it was deeply depressing." That threw me. an almost out of the blue, explicit personal opinion in the middle of the piece.

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Amnesty International says that ( Read more... )

In the pulp stories when two men who hate each other meet, one shouts the other's name and they begin to shoot at each other right then and there. In real life, you avoid eye contact and focus on your book. You feel the power of your previous confrontation drain from you because you weren't able to bring yourself into battle mode right there on the ( Read more... )

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