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Overqualified Overqualified by Joey Comeau
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“Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that she’s ‘damaged goods’, a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it. When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom ‘do you still love me?’ you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even.”
Joey Comeau , Overqualified
“We'll wake up every day and we'll tell ourselves, "Live for today, you retarded little shit. The end is near.”
Joey Comeau, Overqualified
“Memories are like everything else. They're a trap.”
Joey Comeau, Overqualified
“Live for today, you retarded little shit. The end is near.”
Joey Comeau, Overqualified
“Art, he said, isn’t your little paintings and comic books. Art is the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.”
Joey Comeau, Overqualifieder