Remember when

[Marcus Bales]

Remember when we used to meet as if by chance in the nude, but now we each seem to be much more interested in checking our emails and facebook accounts on our separate laptops, you upstairs, and me down.


Remember when the Dictionary Game was

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Remember when the Dictionary Game was more likely to end in flirting than fighting.


Remember when it took more than a nice smile and a bag of

[Marcus Bales]

Remember when it took more than a nice smile and a bag of weed to make friends?


Remember when you didn't have to check

[lukkucairi]

Remember when you didn't have to check your ego at the door every time we went out to dinner and I let you be a self-centered manipulative blowhard but then my Auntie Sara died and left me her antique samurai sword in her will and I took all those kendo classes and learned how to most efficiently decapitate people and practiced all the time and you decided that discretion was the better part of valor and left me the hell alone until you could bust your pride effectively enough to apologize and stop being such a chauvenistic douche?

Remember when I found that used blender in

[Marcus Bales]

Remember when I found that used blender in Auntie Sara's Santaria shrine next to her rather spattered spell book and I started doing all the cooking and after several interesting incidents which we need not recount here you learned how to check your ego at the door whenever you came home and stopped being such a chauvinistic douche?


Remember when the dog

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Remember when the dog ate some of your cooking and found that used blender in Auntie Sara's Santaria shrine next to her rather spattered spell book and it started cooking, too and after several interesting incidents which we need not recount here you learned how to check your ego at the door whenever you came home and stopped being such a chauvinistic douche?


Remember when that lamppost

[Marcus Bales]

Remember when that lamppost looked like just a lamppost and not the vengeful arm of some subterranean beast reaching up through the sidewalk and grasping you by your chauvinistic douchey throat?


Remember when the summer light

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Remember when the summer light seduced you to jump with joy, paint a picture, sing in the streets, lie down in the grass and look at the sky, all at the same time, but you put on your sunglasses and shuffled off to work?


Remember when all the plastic bottles

[Marcus Bales]

Remember when all the plastic bottles were so new that instead of littering the streets people figured out ingenious ways to re-use them?

Remember when in that nightclub that guy at the next table

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Remember when in that nightclub that guy at the next table was staring at you so intently that you finally plucked up the courage to confront him only to realise that he'd lost his contact lenses and was waiting for somebody to help him find them?


Remember when you took multivitamins to

[Marcus Bales]

Remember when all the plastic bottles were so new that people saved them and cut them up to make stuff instead of using them to litter the landscape?


Remember when you read poetry with

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Remember when you read poetry with a pecil in your hand and marked all beautiful words to store them up and savour them later again?



Remember when you took multivitamins to

[Marcus Bales]

Remember when you took multivitamins to please your mother instead of to wish they'd make you young enough to want to please your mother again?

Remember when those meatballs your cooked in water in the microwave

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Remember when those meatballs your cooked in water in the microwave for way too long looked like eyeballs and even looked accusingly at you from the plate?



Remember when an avalanche of

[Marcus Bales]

Remember when an avalanche of Ikea catalogs buried the stroller?

Remember when I mixed that hot mustard sauce into the mayonnaise and