MY FRIEND DAN
Hello! You’re probably in the middle of deciding whether to spend Thanksgiving with your ailing father or super-hot new boyfriend/girlfriend, so let me just say quick that this is my 150th post on Tumblr, that that number is sort of skewed b/c at least 20% of the time I gnash teeth/pull hair for a while post-posting and then delete the post, and also that—because in a sense most of you are relatively new to this blog—I have compiled this little…well, not a best-of, exactly. Think of it more like a burned CD of a decent ’90s slowcore band’s most tolerable tracks, wrapped in tin-foil that you’re pretty sure has already been used for someone’s tuna fish sandwich.
Anyway thanks for sticking with me through all this nonsense. It’s been a fun year.
Fiction:
The Popular Tumblr Writer Queued Up Fifty Post Before Hanging Himself
Explosions in the Sky’s Parent-Teacher Conference
Suburban Kids Coming Home From Bonnaroo
Scenes From Buzzbands Anonymous
Bon Iver’s Parent-Teacher Conference
A Sort of Chillwave Opus in Miniature
I Got an iPhone Last Week and Now
I Am a Critically Acclaimed Cable Television Drama
Non-Fiction:
What I Think It Might Feel Like to Be the Frontman of Brand New
On Seeing Zach Braff Screen ‘Garden State’
On NYC D.I.Y. and a Girl Named Maria, Sort Of
On Rebellion and ’10s Indie Rock
One day, there’ll be meme tumblrs with this guy’s name on it. Trust me.
(I mean that in a good, Ryan Gosling kind of way, not, you know, Star Wars kid or something…)
