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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writing about HBO's Girls:

Some questioned why a man my age would watch a show about girls in their twenties, as if they’d just discovered me hanging around a school playground with a shopping bag full of candy in one hand a fluffy puppy in the other. Of course, these critics are right. When I read Moby Dick I first had to convince the bookseller that I was a former whaler named Queequeg. When I read the poetry of Sylvia Plath, I had to pretend I was a depressed white woman with daddy issues. Don’t worry, I used a fake ID.

Take pen in hand and list the ten most irritating experiences you can self-inflict:

1) Read several years’ worth of The Family Circus.

2) Eat the Dorito bits at the bottom of the bag with a fork.

3) Sign up for extra telemarketing.

4) Marathon Walker, Texas Ranger.

5) Get “Summer Nights” from Grease stuck in your head.

6) Attempt to take action shots with a camera phone. Discover it doesn’t work. Repeat as needed.

7) Set your thermostat to turn up and down at random.

8) Lower your household water pressure.

9) Bang forehead repeatedly with a metal spoon.

10) AFFIRMATIONS.

 

 

Actually I kinda love this picture.

(And I’m still a fan of JC.)