Like therapy, minus the Freudian overtones

With an unchar­ac­ter­istic degree of self-confidence that briefly lulled me into think­ing I might be a ‘some­body’ in online writ­ing terms, I let Ryan Man­ning ask me a series of deep and mean­ing­ful ques­tions for his inter­view site, thunk.

Good luck read­ing to the end of all I said. I was clearly labour­ing under the mis­taken impres­sion that I was talk­ing to a shrink. Or maybe Ryan really is a shrink, who uses the medium of a seem­ingly harm­less inter­net inter­view to get under the skin of his patients. Or maybe I’m just prone to para­noid flights of fancy.

There’s a whole host of better-dressed and better-tanned writer types spill­ing their verbal guts on the site. They’re prob­ably wit­tier, too. I feel decidedly uncool in such company.

Comments: 8

    oh.. well, now I know where to send my diary/scrapbooks if I decide to off myself, and it won’t be weird at all. Then again, hav­ing these sorts of fall­back pos­i­tions tends to help fore­stall any hasty con­clu­sions. As does the cost of post­age to the UK — I have prom­ised an endow­ment to a cat-run art gal­lery and cen­ter. So don’t hold your breath. All right then, as you were. I didn’t find any­thing par­tic­u­larly worry­some about that at all, actu­ally. I can think of some Freu­dian terms for describ­ing Will Self, though. Anal, for one.

    wrenna | 04.07.09, 16:58

    It takes an uber­cool under­coat to hang with such a cool crowd.

    ellie | 04.07.09, 18:31

    I’m bet­ter dressed and most def­in­itely bet­ter tanned but you rule the wit depart­ment no question.

    Dam­mit.

    Ani | 04.07.09, 19:05

    You are the BEST writer of the 21st Century!

    Silent Reader | 04.08.09, 01:43

    Were you con­ceived at the local park and on a bench by the canal?

    blueskies | 04.08.09, 09:58

    Wrenna — Diar­ies and scrap­books are wel­come too. I am not run by cats, but I could be if pushed.

    Ellie — Hello and wel­come. My under­coat is uber­cool, yes. But it tends to chafe a bit, so I have to take it off and remain per­petu­ally uncool.

    Ani — The cheek! Better-dressed than me? In my aston­ish­ing array of jeans? And t-shirts? And jeans and t-shirts? And t-shirts and jeans? Oh, I get your point. Yes.

    Silent Reader — Said without a hint of sar­casm. You can visit again.

    Blueskies — Wel­come also. Um, no, I didn’t mean going quite that far back to where I began. *shudder*

    An Unreliable Witness | 04.08.09, 12:12

    I like your New Zea­l­and com­mune idea. I’d like to ‘escape’ to NZ.

    lillipilli | 04.09.09, 15:24

    Good to spy on your ses­sion on the couch. You stole my three wishes!

    jem | 04.20.09, 12:18

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