Prosthesis 11 September 2003, 16:17

Sometimes I’d feel a body next to me the way an amputee feels a missing limb.

-Harvey Pekar, cartoonist and author of American Splendor, on loneliness

well, haven’t had time to play games for years
feel joystick pangs every once in a while
like an amputee

-my friend Joel

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When bereavement threatens, everyone seems to weigh in as to whether they’ve lost someone before, and exactly how close to them the deceased was. Sort of a “How bare will I be stripped?” gauge of how prepared they are to deal with the experience. Textism’s Dean Allen’s dog (daily) Oliver is hopefully out of danger for good.

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