Comments on: TKOG Who gets inside your head

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:24:40 +0000

I love this. So much. I want to do it, immediately.

By: Snowflake

Snowflake — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:03:05 +0000

Love my “name”. Love it. They really *did* look that awkward.

We should go back, often, and pick one person each time to create a story about, then confirm our suspicions by asking. Because it was just that much fun!

By: Dani

Dani — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:01:17 +0000

Oooh maybe they do like each other, but after 12 years they don’t want to admit it so they are both trying way too hard to act like they don’t.

At least y’all gave them something to talk about for the rest of the night.

By: The Ex

The Ex — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:17:42 +0000

Love it. Straight from Wonder Boys to TKOG’s life.

It sounds like you picked the perfect Vernon Hardapple to talk to. You burst their awkward bubble and got them to laugh. Shoulda gone through with asking him about secretarial positions — that “how I got my job” story would have been LEGENDARY.

BTW, you can’t possibly be more than, like, 10% accurate at socialist horse jockey identification.

By: That Kind of Girl

That Kind of Girl — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:14:26 +0000

Dude, totally feel you on the financial struggles of being an artsy 20something. There’s no easy or conventional path to our dreams. But rest assured, dude, you are walking (and sometimes biking) the path of the righteous.

Although it turns out this girl manages a newspaper, so both of them are lashed to the sinking ship that is dead-tree journalism. I’m not even sure how they could afford overpriced fauxtinis…

By: Muscles

Muscles — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:38:47 +0000

You know, maybe she was paying because SHE was a law student with prospects to make buckets of cash and her mom still pays her cell phone bill and he was just a poor guy without a full time job or healthcare trying to break into producing theater.

Or some other scenario, equally unrelated to my personal circumstances.

By: SoMi's Nilsa

SoMi's Nilsa — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:48:43 +0000

Props to you for going up to ask! I used to do something like that. Back in my 20s, long before I got hitched, when girlfriends and I used to hang out regularly in bars, I had no problem walking up to guys THEY thought were cute and getting the guy(s) to come talk to us. I can’t tell you how many times my girlfriends almost disowned me, which almost equals the number of fantastic nights we had together! =)

By: Rebel Mel

Rebel Mel — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:35:01 +0000

I feel like I do this when I am drunk. I end up getting a bit tipsy and running into girls in the bathroom at whichever bar I am at. I am a people watcher, so once I meet a girl in the bathroom, I feel like I need to comment on what she has been doing all night, or who she has been with, because I have been watching. Sometimes, if I am too wasted, I get verbal diarrhea, and it doesn’t pan out too well.

I guess I just feel like I am supposed to know everyone, and when I get drunk, I guess I don’t realize that half of what I am asking about is none of my business, and although I feel like we have instantly become BFFs through our one bathroom encounter, it’s probably just the beer goggles. But hey, I don’t have THAT many weird experiences.

Once we have our adventure, I’m sure this will happen to us.

By: Tara

Tara — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:40:29 +0000

Love it! The husband and I are always making up stories about people that we see.

By: sandyb

sandyb — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:33:51 +0000

I love that you just ASKED. It’s such an obvious thing to do sometimes, but we (silly humans) tend to get so wrapped up in what other people will think. Break out of the mold, I say, as you did. Loving that moxie of yours, TKOG.

PS, I noticed TKOGMOM has made a return to your comments area… very pumped about that (even though she insists we shouldn’t canoodle.)