0.17.1 - We used to talk about girls who play guitar
Dashboard! I took a swing at the intro to this article a couple of different times over the last few days, and I couldn't quite figure out how to frame it correctly. I was wandering off into weird writing cul de sacs and never felt like I was getting any nearer what I was trying to say until last night, when I was driving to play tennis, when I remembered a story which helped frame the whole thing for me. So, lets start again shall we? This is a true story, the context of which will hopefully become apparent as it relates to my larger point. In my life, I have witnessed and been involved in many misguided attempts to express to a long-term or passing object of someone's affection their heartfelt desire to end up in bed with them. It's the eternal question of adolescence, " How do I talk to (meaning seduce) people of the gender I'm sexually attracted to?" . No attempt has ever been more misguided nor doomed to failure than the night I spent around a campfi...