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Rick Lewis's avatar

Your made up story was my favorite part. I think I would rather live in the world of your mind than reality. And this, "glamorized unpreparedness" must be the two most accurate and descriptive words of the modern world I've ever heard.

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...and to think my bullshit might be better than my truth...now i might have to consider becoming a real piece of shit and just start making everything up...maybe that is the finest end point of reality, a true embrace of a total lack of one...my greatest fear at this point is that the outhouse contest becomes a reality and I am compelled to try it...

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Rick Lewis's avatar

somehow I suspect you’d be more unhappy in a perfectly appointed middle-class abode of spacious mediocrity than you would the confines of squalor

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...shh...don't tell my bosses at office max...

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Christin Chong, PhD's avatar

What a nice recap of our time together! ;)

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...all that shit inspired me...thanks so much for the radical walk...

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Haley Brengartner's avatar

For all this shit talking, there is one thing this essay is not, and that is shit.

You really had me going with that Jane story. I almost had to look up that absurdity halfway through reading her story. Maybe I'm just gullible, but I was surely convinced.

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...i'm a total shit for doing that...

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The Show Must Go On's avatar

Another song to link this with...

Nicely done!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lHxRzjWTyA

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...it is a frigging spearhead party in this club...love it...

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Sandra Yvonne's avatar

This really gave me so much shit to think about.

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...so much shit on that trail...

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Maria's avatar

you’re the shit.

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Miche Priest's avatar

This essay is the shit!

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Leo Hepis's avatar

That Jane Swithy story fits the mold of American Apocrypha, the kind skilled journalists could reconstruct from old newspapers in the abandoned library of a decrepit town.

Or something only a skilled storyteller could concoct!

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...this is a useful task for A.I. --> search the entirety of small town americana newspapers and give us our most inspiring tales of idiocy, verve and uniqueness...if we are to rehash and repeat our steps, let us at least choose the funniest ones...

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Tommy Dixon's avatar

Ha this was awesome CansaFis. I also fully believed the made up story. Seemed like it was plausible since crazier things have definitely happened in Florida (any other state I would’ve been skeptical)

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...within our most mundane lies, lie our most profane truths...we could probably start a full on second internet with just real florida stories...

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