Monthly Archives: March 2010

A Better Kind of Fraud

By Keith | Published: Monday, March 8, 2010
Even as fully grown adults we remain secretly starved for guidance and instruction. Many of us are walking around with the uneasy feeling that we missed the first day of class and wondering if there are CliffNotes. Most people desperately want someone to tell them what life’s about, what people are for, what we’re supposed [...]
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Internet Dating and the Concept of the Self

By Keith | Published: Friday, March 5, 2010
Yesterday, while at work, a break room conversation broke out (see what I did there?) about relationships (surprise) and, specifically, how I’m the only employee not in one (surprise again). My coworker suggested that I put up a personal ad on The Stranger’s LoveLab, implying that I would garner a very large amount of dates [...]
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That’s All Well and Good But

By Keith | Published: Wednesday, March 3, 2010
You don’t have to be overly macho. You don’t have to be over-complimentary. Gain her respect. And that’s treating her as an equal. Don’t bullshit her. Treat her as a human being. Treat her as you would treat yourself. As soon as you have that respect from her, she’ll treat you with the same respect [...]
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Better as a Shadow

By Keith | Published: Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Yesterday morning I woke from a dream in which I was looking out the window of my sister’s bedroom in my parents house and a nuclear explosion erupted in the distance, bright burning white light and fantastical mushroom cloud and all. I stood for what seemed like unrealistically too long, watching it and wondering what [...]
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Liberation

By Keith | Published: Monday, March 1, 2010
Perhaps I am so distantly separated from the situation at this juncture that that part of me has been adequately anæsthesized, but it’s still surprising for me to look at a photo and think to myself that yeah, she looks happier with him and then to feel good about the thought. However dismally, it’s liberating [...]
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