Small City Life

[nfotxn]

Man it sucks that everyone in Hamilton can be so patently boring without even noticing. Even the least uninteresting of my friends have fallen prey to The Boy/Girlfriend Disease to which the only cure is pre-occupation of yourself as well. I am of course just seethingly, glowingly jealous and lonely and destitute and oh I just might cry you a river.

But instead I will just thin out the garden with Mom, cook some homemade soup, bake some banana bread and mix some jazzy house records (hint: Fluid Ounce is still your friend) in attempt to shake my ennui. I'm here in hopes that maybe people will figure out that hanging around the same person in all your free time is really fucking boring. That weekends are meant for hanging out with your cool gay friends AND your present lover. But this is just me being a subversive homosexualist trying to undermine the institution of marriage by suggesting that people of all sexualities seek out meaningful relationships of many capacities in their lives.

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[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

What's that you were saying? Oh sorry, I have to take the kids to soccer practise ...

[abearius.livejournal.com]

n it sucks that everyone in Hamilton can be so patently boring without even noticing.

ROFLMAO There is a future for you somewhere, Brodie.

[abearius.livejournal.com]

Rilke has a very poignant poem about this. At a certain period in his life he lived in Paris' industrial district, which was pretty dismal in a way that only industrial districts in the 19th century could be. At the end of lifeless, grueling days, people would gather in bars to eke out what pleasure and camaraderie they could. Viewing one of these evenings, Rilke wrote "They say 'I' and 'I', but they could mean anyonoe."

We've raised the bar on standards of living, but maybe nothing has happened in the realm of personal development.

[db050870.livejournal.com]

Speak for yourself Beeaatch!

[thafuzz.livejournal.com]

But this is just me being a subversive homosexualist trying to undermine the institution of marriage by suggesting that people of all sexualities seek out meaningful relationships of many capacities in their lives.

Nooooo!!!!

*my co-dependent head explodes*

[uspinmeround.livejournal.com]

As a founding member of both the Professional Third Wheels of America club and the Couples Make Me Vomit club, I salute you.

I have never fallen prey to that horrible, horrible Boy/Girlfriend Disease in my 34 years on this planet and I ain't about to start now!

Unless of course someone really hot actually asks me out...then all bets are off.

[abbazabba.livejournal.com]

Interestingly enough, one of my good friends, who I've now known for more than 20 years, sometimes suffers from this disorder. Even more interesting, is that he uses his gay friend (which I have yet to figure out how he reconciles given norms in my locality and in his family) as the antidote to "too much girlfriend".

I highly doubt that Hamilton, Ontario has the patent on boring people. You'll find boring people in malls and applebee's everywhere. You'll also find very interesting people. The problem with this, of course, is that it's difficult to determine if someone is boring unless you talk to them. This problem is compounded by the greater percentage of boring people.

Sometimes, the amount of effort needed to root out interesting people is so great, that it forces interesting people to become boring.

This is the real tragedy.