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I got the sweetest, most unexpected email from This Fish yesterday, and it reminded me how much I missed the old days before I realized the Internet offers discounts for CRAZY and I felt the burning desire to run, run, run! It also reminded me that SHE HAS MET MOLLY RINGWALD AND I HAVE NOT. I don’t know if I am okay with that.

PLUS------SURVIVED THE INTERNET
DELTA----HAVE NOT MET MOLLY RINGWALD

I have not offered up any meta on this site, nor have I put up my archives, nor have I fixed the links above, nor have I gotten that vasectomy. So many blank boxes on my to-do list I don’t know what to do. I am all task and no finish.

PLUS------CAN MULTITASK
DELTA----MULTIFINISHING

I also haven’t left comments anywhere. Except recently when I ate too much tequila and left an ill-thought link without even bothering to consider that the other person might not share my thoughts about what makes good election humor and oh my god I have adored this person for ages and am absolutely afraid to go back to her site now for the holy fear of facing my horror. I have cringe blocked her site. I am 35 years old.

PLUS------CONSIDERABLE TOLERANCE TO ADULT BEVERAGES
DELTA----DELUSIONAL RE: TOLERANCE LEVELS

I am afraid of meta because if I get to talking about my life, most of you would not be proud, even though I have seen many of you in unproud moments and that is good, because I don’t know if I could spend much time with sensible folk. My unproud trumps your unproud, though, I absolutely promise you. Unless it doesn’t and you have somehow done worse by the world than me. In which case, you disgust me. That’s just the way it works.

PLUS------"ONE OF THE GUYS"
DELTA----DOESN’T LIKE ONE OF THE GUYS

There was this funny moment at one of the casinos where the four of us were celebrating my winnings and I was dumping fistfuls of nickels onto the waitresses like golden showers who responded by delivering a steady stream of long islands, and for a moment we were all famous; pound wise and penny foolish and the ladies said we could have all the girlfriends in the world, and the gents said you are the only one for me.

PLUS------SURVIVED LOS VEGAS
DELTA----HAVE NOT MET MOLLY RINGWALD

9 comments:

Steph(anie) said...

Don't be so hard on yourself, brother.

Anonymous said...

I am jealous of your alcohol tolerance and have no wish to meet Molly NOW although I would totally meet her 25 years ago, all flux capacitor like.

Brandon said...

steph you are only being nice because we are related.

greg, i am going to hold off until molly is about 80 before i make my move. i figure i will use that alcohol tolerance to simply outlive the rest of her dating pool.

eclectic said...

So... Vegas is good?

Brandon said...

e, my two favorite days were getting there and coming home.

Anonymous said...

That was spectacular.

We should play cards sometime, to test your trump-tastic hypothesis. It may end up being an effort in out-disgusting one another, but if there's a more effective way of getting to know someone else, outside of fluid-swapping, I don't know what it could possibly be.

P.S. I'm not willing to swap fluids with you, so cards will have to do.

Brandon said...

wait, i thought poker was a euphemism for swapping fluids? there's even that song about knowing when to hold them and knowing when to fold them.

i thought the 'them' were other dudes.

Lisa said...

"golden showers" tee hee.

cringe-blocked is my new favorite new compound word. I intend to use it at work tomorrow and take all the credit for it.

Brandon said...

yay! if one steals, then another will steal, and that is what we call the economy.

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