'I'm a Drunk and No One Likes Me!'
Strip away the blustery attempts to win attention and love and you’re automatically a lot more interesting.
Untitled (1960), Dorothea Tanning
A reader suggested this column in the comments from Tuesday’s dispatch (“People Always Think I’m Insulting Them When I’m Just Having a Laugh”). This one originally ran on The Awl in August of 2013. It feels fitting that the two should be such a study in contrasts: You do you vs. Time to change everything.
Although the sub…