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Wisdom, wonderment and weird for everyone.

Valentine’s Day Cards For Everybody Else

Posted on February 14, 2014 by You Monsters Are People

This morning the cyberverse was awash with Valentine’s Day themed images and I couldn’t help but notice that several demographics weren’t being represented in the slightest. The Hallmark Holiday seems to primarily celebrate a very middle of the road sort … Continue reading →

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Avian Action Almost Spoiled My Sunday Morning

Posted on February 12, 2014 by You Monsters Are People

As an adult your opportunities to participate in sleepovers diminish slowly over time. I am not sure if it has something to do with an unwillingness to sleep anywhere other than your own bed or if other people just don’t … Continue reading →

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A Reminder During the Darkest Days of Winter

Posted on February 4, 2014 by You Monsters Are People

Sometimes it feels like there is a hole in my head and every good thought or feeling that I ever had has escaped into space. The best of me has leaked out and been replaced with a humorless mist and … Continue reading →

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Falsus Corpus: Thoughts About Women’s Stupid Bodies

Posted on January 22, 2014 by You Monsters Are People

In prehistoric times the thing that made a woman the most desirable to the rest of her pack was having both arms. Things like sharp teeth and having no diseases were just perks back then. If you were some archaic … Continue reading →

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The Inevitable Return of Dueling

Posted on January 16, 2014 by You Monsters Are People

I think we may need to return to dueling to settle petty personal disputes. But, as killing is currently a major social faux pas, it wouldn’t necessarily always need to be pistols at dawn. It could just be game of … Continue reading →

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An Explanation for Insanity

Posted on January 9, 2014 by You Monsters Are People

While visiting my parents, I took advantage of my father’s open Facebook by updating his status with claims of him enjoying the work of David Spade in the film Joe Dirt. In retaliation he made a post for You Monsters … Continue reading →

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Snowed In

Posted on January 5, 2014 by You Monsters Are People

I am currently sitting out a blizzard in my home state of Michigan. Everyone in it went shopping for the same thing yesterday. Now all the only thing left on the shelves is fear and hopelessness.

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Having A Live-In Dominatrix Was Electrifyingly Dull

Posted on December 18, 2013 by You Monsters Are People

I used to live with a dominatrix. Obviously that comes with certain compromises and perks that other living arrangements might not have. I was in the middle of my college career and had been dating her best friend for several … Continue reading →

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When Good Times Aren’t Great: It’s Easier to Blame the Drugs Than the Man

Posted on December 11, 2013 by You Monsters Are People

At no point during my existence on this planet have I ever forged a meaningful relationship with a person I’ve met while smoking cannabis. There is nothing about that experience that makes you want to suddenly share all of yourself … Continue reading →

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Unsolved Mysteries: A Misnomer

Posted on November 18, 2013 by You Monsters Are People

When I was a child the scariest thing on television was Unsolved Mysteries. Each week Robert Stack came into our homes for forty-four minutes to explain murders and rapes in brutal detail with the help of “dramatic reenactments” before letting … Continue reading →

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