Joe bielecki
Host of Writing The Rapids. Author of Tired. Fatherhood enjoyer.
- Often you'll come across the trope of a guy saying "I got a compliment on my appearance once and I'll never forget it" and my tip for getting more comments is to be a redhead and dress a little weird
- I want to have enough money that I could by a candle with a cool shape and not feel bad about burning it
- I like that my copy of On the Road is mildly annotated, I like to see the previous owner underlining things and noting "relatable," or "how american". very cute
- Dad shit: straining my back carrying a chair my wife found on Facebook marketplace for our kid’s room up the stairs.
- without downloading any new pictures, what is your mental state?
- I remember as a teen we’d try to trip each other out with the whole “you never really know what you look like!” thing. But as a man in my thirties I’ve come to accept that I actually straight up don’t know what I look like in a very real and practical way.
- Leaning in to being a bit of a weird loser (affectionate), redefining the term nerd for myself, and keeping the words "Goth Dad" in my head while clothes shopping, have done wonders for me.
- Started reading On The Road yesterday and noted that of my few goodreads friends who have also read it, all the women gave it two or three stars and all the men gave it four or five stars. Super small sample size, but interesting all the same.
- The notions that alcohol is a kind of truth serum whereas social media is a corrupting force that turns you more wretched the more time you spend with it, I think, should be swapped.
- Hell yeah
