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9 years ago @ The Toast - Songs From A Mountain ... · 0 replies · +8 points

I assume that John Darnielle has actually written a song like that, probably while hanging out with his kids.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Things Women In Litera... · 9 replies · +375 points

I fully expected that when this page loaded, all it would say was "Childbirth."

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Boxcar Children, R... · 1 reply · +7 points

That was The Yellow House Mystery and I was FASCINATED by the way they, like, hung bacon from trees and stuff. But I was a city kid.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Let's Talk About Our W... · 0 replies · +3 points

I dreamed that a family met a girl in a bookstore and adopted her or something, and then they all committed suicide together, except that I think one of them was buried alive. And I kept waking up a little bit and trying to imagine them alive again but every time I fell back asleep increasingly awful things would happen.

10 years ago @ The Toast - The Eight Steps For Ma... · 0 replies · +10 points

My mom got me into making ginger tea, but she minces it and I just poke some holes in it with a knife and stick it in my mug.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Two Monks Invent Denom... · 0 replies · +9 points

Which is sad, because they wanted so badly to be fair to life. I mean, did anyone else kick off their apostolic poverty by distributing their wealth to the people from whom they'd earned it?

10 years ago @ The Toast - Two Monks Invent Denom... · 2 replies · +6 points

This seems slightly unfair to the Waldensians.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Share Your Greatest Di... · 0 replies · +6 points

When I was in my early teens, a friend and I used to stand at my third story window and throw pennies at people walking on the sidewalk below. Occasionally we hit them.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Little Women:... · 0 replies · +9 points

The difference is that those male authors clearly think their self-loathing protagonists (and themselves) are the greatest. LMA, not so much.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Little Women:... · 2 replies · +8 points

But mostly because Louisa May Alcott hated herself.

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