I apparently know actual brain surgeons and rocket scientists.

[pootrootbeer]

Hey, you know what's depressing? When you're an Ivy League alumnus and you go on LinkedIn and sites like that, and see what your classmates have accomplished that you haven't. The stocky kid that lived down the dorm hall? Co-founder of Stereogum. That guy from band? A VP at CitiGroup

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i lolled

[hydrozoa]

that last paragraph is the crowning achievement of your life: the best thing on the internet.

[jecook]

*dies laughing*

[eyelid]

I was in high school with Josh Hartnett.

Being happy is what counts :)

I just saw

[notr]

my friend Bob Zubrycki from junior high in the orchestral credits of Ric Burns's New York. I think it was around the time that aired that I last tried to look him up and failed.

Oh, man, he plays for Leon? I wonder if I've sung with him and not known it!

[mmcirvin]

I copyedited some of Patton Oswalt's college-magazine humor pieces.

I was also the magazine's other, crappier humor columnist. My specialty was giant lists!