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Keith is a 23-year-old would-be writer, blogger, musician, and wannabe cultural critic. All Things That Are Good is his personal blog. More »
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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Dear Mr. Garrett,
You are far too kind, good sir.
Dullness
Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves [...]
Solitarity
I think that when people want to be with someone—I mean really want to be with them—they will do pretty much whatever they can to make it work. Think of some of the sacrifices and compromises you’ve made in the past for the sake of a relationship.
It’s comforting to know that even at my most [...]
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Gone
I spent a lot of this afternoon alone at home—no one calling or texting or emailing—thinking that today was tomorrow, learning Say Yes by Elliott Smith on a ukulele that looks like a Fender Telecaster, and coming up with (admittedly flawed) reasoning as to why I deserved all of the things that have happened to [...]
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Positive Annoyance
I think I should start allowing through my spam filter the fake comments that say, “Good article as usual!” I know that it’s spam and probably not a real person, but it makes me sort of feel less alone in a sick and wholly narcissistic way.
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