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Guilty Pathos
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thirdreel. Like for real -- this is an original entry of his that I snipped up and stole.
"Sometimes people ask me about my "guilty pleasures" in entertainment, and I'm always a little unsure how to answer. I mean, I have pleasures highbrow and lowbrow, and I don't really feel embarrassed about any of them. .... However, I have realized the opposite side: I am sometimes embarrassed to admit when I get a little choked up. Some things make me inexplicably misty-eyed, and it's hard to come out in the open with it. It's guilty pathos, is what it is.
That's why I ask for some solidarity. If you click the cut, please share at least one guilty pathos of your own. Hopefully yours will be more cringeworthy or bizarre than mine."
I have no problem admitting to many things that make me cry -- The Wire, Battlestar Galactica, even Medium. Movies get me a lot too. But I still have maybe 10% of things that I am embarassed about. I revealed this first one in Drew's journal, but I've added a few new ones too. And like him, if you're reading this list, I would like you comment and tell me what your "guilty pathos" is. And don't say some isht like "Terms of Endearment" or whatever that millions of people have cried to and its totally acceptable. I want the awkward, deep, uncool, real stuff!!
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thirdreel. Like for real -- this is an original entry of his that I snipped up and stole."Sometimes people ask me about my "guilty pleasures" in entertainment, and I'm always a little unsure how to answer. I mean, I have pleasures highbrow and lowbrow, and I don't really feel embarrassed about any of them. .... However, I have realized the opposite side: I am sometimes embarrassed to admit when I get a little choked up. Some things make me inexplicably misty-eyed, and it's hard to come out in the open with it. It's guilty pathos, is what it is.
That's why I ask for some solidarity. If you click the cut, please share at least one guilty pathos of your own. Hopefully yours will be more cringeworthy or bizarre than mine."
I have no problem admitting to many things that make me cry -- The Wire, Battlestar Galactica, even Medium. Movies get me a lot too. But I still have maybe 10% of things that I am embarassed about. I revealed this first one in Drew's journal, but I've added a few new ones too. And like him, if you're reading this list, I would like you comment and tell me what your "guilty pathos" is. And don't say some isht like "Terms of Endearment" or whatever that millions of people have cried to and its totally acceptable. I want the awkward, deep, uncool, real stuff!!
( Read more... )
