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Monday, May 9 - 5:18pm

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SIU is so much like USCB except there's no sand or palm trees. I actually prefer college, but that could be due to the fact that I have gotten so much more booty after leaving high school... ah memories.

Adam

"And they called it puppy-love..."

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Monday, May 9 - 8:22pm

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Ah, your superb writing not only brought me closer to this generation, but it brought me down memory lane as well.

First of all, I now understand why you look at my cocker spaniel they way you do, so watch it!

I, too, went to a party college (Nasson College, Springvale, Maine), but UCSB is a piker in comparison. We partied ourselves right out of existence. God, it was great. After the class of '68, it whimpered along, but finally closed its liquor-stained doors in the late '70's. The rate of brain cell death in Maine was reduced by over 30% I hear.,,

And remind me to tell you about our local bum, Scumbag, sometime. But that was just after college, and you have some more living to do before hearing about him.

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Monday, May 9 - 8:24pm

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P.S. I forgot to mention that at Nasson College we invented marijuana.

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Tuesday, May 10 - 7:00pm

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I enjoyed this very much.

Extremelly well-written, incisively funny, humorously sarcastic, with an adult level of skill and polish. Are you sure you're only fifteen?

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Tuesday, May 10 - 7:13pm

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Alec, has 'girls gone wild, been recruiting at UCSB?

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Tuesday, May 10 - 10:51pm

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Thanks for the nice comments, all. (Although, Phil, I'm actually twenty and a few months.)

Erik, I highly doubt that GGW hasn't come here at some point in recent years, but while I've been here (this is my second year; the piece was actually written in the summer, reflecting on my first year) it's be Collegefuckfest.com and another porn site, which I forget.

Alec

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Sunday, May 15 - 5:22pm

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James,

I'm glad your aethetics were compatible with what I consider some of the best writing I've seen, at least from people who are still alive. All your recommendations have been wonderful. Alec is a rock star. When I read his writing and Peter C's, I despair of ever getting to the outside all that is in.

But we aren't allowed to do that, are we.

Julia

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Friday, September 2 - 12:17pm

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I once returned to Sayville High School several months after I graduated in 1996, because a teacher I respected had a student similar to me: reasonably intelligent, alienated, abused by other students, and a longhaired metalhead with a violin. The only thing I felt when I stepped back into that place was the yearning for the feel of a weapon in my left hand. All the old rage came back, and when I met the kid my teacher wanted me to talk to, I said to him, "I cannot help you. You are going to suffer, you are going to be abused, and you are going to be lonely. Don't make the mistake I made, and try to stick it out: get your GED and drop out as soon as you can."

And then I walked out. It's been almost ten years, and I still want to rain napalm on the town in which I grew up.