Posts tagged “freaks and geeks”

  1. Take a moment and try to conjure up a TV Christian in your mind. Is it a member of the Camden Family? Ned Flanders? Kenneth “Science is my most favorite subject, especially the Old Testament” Parcell? Whoever it is, I’m willing to bet their confidence in Christianity is near absolute -- usually played to comic, if cringeworthy, results. These characters, coupled with the poised Midwestern Christians I grew up with, tricked me into believing that…

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  2. Almost every gay(ish) woman has a Kim Kelly in her past. You met in adolescence; probably in middle or high school, possibly in college but certainly no later. Your lives were deeply and intimately intertwined -- although you may or may not have had an overtly romantic relationship, everyone who knew the two of you knew that for good or for ill that you were one another's top priorities. Your Kim almost certainly smoked cigarettes…

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