Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of July 7, 2024
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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of July 7, 2024

Everyone has a favorite pore. The one they love to pick. The one that when you leave it alone for a week or so, it fills up and gives you a solid string of blackhead squiggle to squeeze out. And you are as excited about it as if it were pay day. Every two weeks, you’re flush again. Time to blow it all… all over your mirror.

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The Opening Campfire: An (alternative) Introduction to "A Camp Story" – Author's Cut
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The Opening Campfire: An (alternative) Introduction to "A Camp Story" – Author's Cut

My biggest concern, beyond not knowing anyone and just generally hating camp, was that I was going to spend a summer in the woods surrounded by swarms of big, disgusting, loud cicadas. It was 1990 and the 17-year cicadas had taken over Chicago. I had killed so many with such bloodlust that I convinced myself the winged beasts in Decatur had gotten word of me and were plotting their revenge for their brethren.

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