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Thursday, January 30, 2003
 
I was really good at dodgeball when I was a kid. I only mention this because in every other physical activity, I was a useless spastic weakling. I've never been fast, strong, or capable, but when it was time to play dodgeball I became a god among giants, because I possessed three qualities: eerily quick reflexes, a preturnatural awareness of my surroundings, and an overwhelming desire not to get hit with flying objects. I could sense a playground ball soaring toward my bowl-cutted head and instinctively, like, pluck it from the air, making my assailant look pretty stupid. My elementary school gym teacher favored a free-form incarnation of the game called "Turbo Dodgeball," wherein everyone ran frantically around the gym trying to annihilate everyone else -- no teams, no jails, no obstructions. Just me and all the other little fuckwads. And I was the king of the fuckwads.
     I only mention this because I was so lame and despised in every other regard. And I'm not just trying to jump on the late-'90s hipster "I was unpopular as a child" bandwagon. Remember when famous people started coming out of the woodwork to claim aggrieved status as schoolyard victims? I believe that Noam Chomsky and Billy Corgan suffered at the hands of bullies, but when obvious football player/cheerleader types started complaining I got a little fed up. I know that in high school I was well-liked and visible; the fawning inscriptions in my yearbook from people I can barely remember attest to that. But in elementary school I really was a reject -- the kind of kid who's always trying to show you a magic trick, or trying to juggle three unwieldy objects. If I had gone to any school other than that feel-good pinko playpen, I would have been yard meat. But man. I could play dodgeball.
     And now I am totally awesome.

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