Jimmy Chen
March 15th, 2010 / 4:24 pm
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Does your life suck or blow?

I. SUCKS

II. BLOWS

34 Comments

  1. Jimmy Chen
  2. Vaughan Simons

      I respectfully disagree. Surely death is a high point of both?

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      Lincoln

        one last caress…

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        sasha fletcher

          i have got something to say.

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          ce.

            I killed your baby today.

  3. stephen

      It appears to be “sucking ass” currently : )

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  4. ZZZZIPP

      my coordinates aren’t anywhere on these graphs

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  5. EC
  6. mjm
  7. Jhon Baker

      I have a similar comment today in my blog. I suggest you check it out. Also, it has been found that creative people are often crazy enough to be diagnosed as such, so knowing this I don’t think writers and poets who are worth a damn ever really get above that line – only in moments where the laurels are too heavy to cast aside and burn.

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  8. tao
  9. aaron steely

      fucked if you do.
      fucked if you don’t.
      i feel refreshed.

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  10. dave erlewine

      you’re lumping oprah’s book club in with charlie rose interview?

      Looks like I’m close to death, either way you slice it. Thanks…Jimmy for ruining my night. Oh and you misspelled marriage so, um, gotcha back!

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  11. Jon Cone

      Slouching toward publication.

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  12. Amy

      Certainly accurate enough as a starting point for investigation. Suggest drafting a graph displaying the life of a writer who does not get to meet Charlie Rose or Oprah Winfrey.

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  13. Aaron

      Both look pretty sweet to me. They publish, people read their work.

      One issue: why is death automatically categorized as bad? I imagine death will come with a sense of relief, so good.

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  14. anon

      i am an unhappy person

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      ZZZZIPP

        SORRY TO HEAR THAT ANON

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  15. Tim Ramick

      I find myself coming to HTMLGIANT simply to read ZZZZIPP’s comments and feel better about the world (in a chuckling sort of way) for some too-fleeting moments. Is there any help for me? Am I a ZZZZIPPaholic? Do I need intervention?

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      ZZZZIPP

        zzzippp

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        Tim Ramick

          A sip of cripppled zzzymmetry ≠ the hair of the dog.

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  16. Stu

      My life sucks, but you know… one thing sucks has that blowing doesn’t… is the hedonism, and that is the best part!

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  17. isaac estep

      Why is puberty so high up there?

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      Matt Cozart

        puberty is the decline from the relative happiness of childhood

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        Tim Ramick

          and death is the crash at the end of either brakeless slide (though I wish the writer’s life got the steeper thrill)

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  19. Marilyn Wise

      Major suck, especially since I just read that my radical views on slavery and Benjamin Franklin will have to be published IN A MAGAZINE OF GOOD REPUTE before I can get my book published. Self-publication looks more likely every day.

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  20. Phill

      I read “Does your wife suck or blow…”
      Explains why I thought all you guys are just weird!!

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