Dear Clusterflock
Of all the courses you took in school (any school, at any time in your life), which one has had the most significant impact on your life?
Dear Clusterflock
What’s keeping you going today? For me, it’s this delicious photo.
dear clusterflock,
I was looking at my t-shirts today, and I realized I no longer have any good t-shirts. Well, I have a Morrissey t-shirt that I bought from his concert a few years ago, and that’s a cool one. I think I would like to have some very good, very cool t-shirts. So if anyone wants to send me one, email me, I wear a size large, and I will be forever grateful and will in return send you something really nice!
Tao Lin
Anybody read Tao Lin? Should I?
Dear Clusterflock
How did you first become aware of clusterflock?
Dear Clusterflock
What song lyrics were you mistaken about?
Example:
Real lyric: A girl with kaleidescope eyes
Misheard lyric: The girl with colitis goes by
Dear clusterflock
What helps?
Dear Clusterflock
Who thinks that Deron should interview himself?
The inspiration came from a fantastic article posted on a terrific blog.
Dear clusterflock
Who gets to be famous?
A Visiting Insect
Anyone recognize this creature?
Dear Clusterflock
In a time when we all feel the need to tighten the proverbial (financial) belt, what won’t you give up?
Dear Clusterflock
What are the best things and the worst things about having children?
Dear Clusterflock…
Best Bill Murray movie?
dear clusterflock
What’s your day job?
Dear Clusterflock
If you were to die today, what (age) version of you would you choose to represent yourself in heaven for all eternity?
Of course, we’re assuming a few things here, like: (a.) There’s a heaven. (b.) You’re going there. (c.) Once you get there, you’ll get to choose to be seven or twenty-eight or fifty-three for the rest of ever. (d.) You don’t hate wishy-washy, pie-in-the-sky, ethereal questions like this one. &c.
Dear Clusterflock
What do you make of this?
Dear Clusterflock
What do you think about the mild controversy surrounding David Sedaris’s new book of essays, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, and, indeed, all of his work in general?
In case you didn’t know, Sedaris publishes as a memoirist/humorist, and his work is generally considered, promoted as, and referred to (by Sedaris and others) as non-fiction, though he admits, “it’s 97% true, I think that’s true enough. I’m not going to call it fiction because 3% of it isn’t true.” This is all the sort of thing, of course, that calls to mind the whole James Frey mess.
Dear Clusterflock
You look nice today.
Dear Clusterflock
Am I the only one who absolutely abhors baseball? As in, cannot tolerate the game for even a few minutes and wouldn’t notice at all if baseball disappeared tomorrow?
Dear Clusterflock,
It’s real hot and sticky this weekend—too sticky to move out of the airstream of the fan—so I’ve been sitting on the couch rereading Mighty Maggie Mason’s (months-old) lists of 100 Things Worth Doing (parts 2, 3, 4) and 100 Things to Do Before I Go (parts 2, 3, 4).
And so, of course, I’ve also started making my own lists. It’s fun but surprisingly difficult—at least the “to do” part. Apparently I’m not very good at setting goals: I’ve got twice as many dones as to dos so far, and I can assure you that that is not because I’m a stellar overachiever.
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Dear clusterflock
Can you smell what The Rock is cooking?
Not that I’m volunteering
It’s not like I’m volunteering or anything like that. I’m just asking. (And I think that maybe someone suggested this back when Chris Glass was redesigning clusterflock.)
What if, in addition to telling people who we are and what we’re about and linking to our selves and our raving faves and all, we had a clusterflock Guide for the Perplexed? A quick (and dirty) reference to catchphrases and coinages (SOS), recurring themes (donkey love), and all-purpose phrases and quotations (”I don’t want your bourgeois divorce”).
Not that anyone new to the site would actually use it to spare embarrassment. But we might amuse ourselves in compiling it.
Not that I’m volunteering or anything like that.
Dear clusterflock
Best HBO series.
I do not think it means what you think it means
Sheila’s excellent post on words that sound different than they mean has generated a host of excellent responses. For those reading via RSS, this is a good example of our comment threads.
Entonces, people . . .
For a while now I’ve been meaning to pose a “Dear clusterflock” question that I continually forget, but a message from Alek Lindus called it to mind.
Bear with me now. This may take a little explaining.
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