Among the many monstrously anti-literate things said to me by folks who saw me reading books, statements to the effect that people who read books don’t have lives, that reading is for fags, that I was a Poindexter or a nerd or so on, the conversations that have long horrified me most are those with […]
I am not a strong swimmer. You can tell that from looking at me. I don’t have the body of a swimmer. I look like what I pretty much am, in bodies of water: a buoy. But I enjoy doing things that look like swimming, to the point that I maintain (falsely to the wider […]
Originally published on Facebook April 23 2014. Okay, this one’s going to be just a little bit angry. It has to do with a cheap trick a couple of you keep pulling. It never fails. You do this one incredibly stupid, incredibly dishonest, and, yes, incredibly revealing thing all the time. It’s always in reaction […]