my teenage memoir vol. I

[youampersandme]

2001, eleven years old

Comments

[goodnessgosh]

incredible mccall! i recognise some of these too, and also it's amazing how much they remind me of my own teenage journals, most of which got thrown out in the rain by fucked up old housemates as i was moving out of my first sharehouse, so they got mouldy and i had to throw them away. i love that kind of embarrassing earnestness of a teenager.

[youampersandme]

ugh that is awful! what terrible housemates. yeah, I didn't share a lot of the writing because I wanted to share this publicly and most of the writing from them are pretty rough secrets but maybe one day.

[eunice]

this is too great. i wish i could do the same but most of mine are just writing (i've never been such a great artist)
i especially love this: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6825288617_5fe04fcc78.jpg
and the gore vidal picture, too. i love that you made this post.

[youampersandme]

thank you! you could always share writing excerpts. some of the things I wrote down at these ages..

[presentpossible]

i love the "whisper" braid, but i'm most intrigued by your handwriting. the earliest looks like how i used to write, and then it turns into my roomate's handwriting... crazy!

[youampersandme]

my handwriting still changes all the time. idk. <3

[catori_inteus]

god yes, journals forever!! holding on to my old journals inspires me to keep making more, because i hope to live another 20 years and another 20 after that, and i can only imagine what my 70 year-old self might think of the me now. it's so great having paper journals and sketchbooks. i'm kinda sad i've done so much of my diary-style writing online in the past ten years, because it's just not as fun reading on a computer screen as it is so touch pages and read your own handwriting. there's so much magic in it.
you were so cool as a teenager! i would have loved to be friends with you in high school.

[youampersandme]

thank you and ohh I was so not cool as a teenager. haha but we probably would have gotten along anyway

[teknolovesong]

Some serious lynda Barry shit right here

[youampersandme]

I'm not super familiar with her work

[teknolovesong]

you need to be!! she is a true genius. read the book "Cruddy" and let it blow your mind. i didn't mean to imply that your stuff is at all derivative of hers, but just that it reminds me of it in the best way possible.

[youampersandme]

yeah, I know of her but I haven't read her stuff. I'll do that next chance I get, thanks babe