Cringe
January 14th, 2007
Perhaps you read the Dooce entry last week in which she posted one of her college diary entries. She was inspired to do this by her blogger friend Sarah Brown and her Cringe project. Cringe is both a series of monthly readings in Brooklyn, and a book that Sarah is compiling. The content? Old journal entries, diaries, poems, letters and other great works written during one’s teenage years. Cringe, indeed. Dooce’s post was the first I’d heard of Cringe, but I was intrigued.
Coincidentally, it turns out my brave friend Mary C. Matthews shared some high school journal nuggets at the last Cringe reading. You can see a video of her performance here (spoiler: it involves many references to Dances With Wolves). I laughed so hard I couldn’t stop crying while I watched it.
I am now inspired to sift through the detritus of my own youth in search of something cringe-inducing. Shouldn’t be too hard. I remember somewhat recently reading through some notes I passed during class with my best friend in high school. Every single one was about how my hair looked.
More soon on this topic, I promise. I’ll start digging into the back of the garage tomorrow.
Inspired by Dooce and then by your friend Mary, I’ve begun my big dig, as well. I know I have material, it’s just a matter of precisely how much I want to humiliate myself…
Can’t wait to see what you come up with!
This is very interesting. I think I got rid of all my high school crap because I hated it so much. Hmm….I do have a box of momentos and not sure what’s in there anymore. This could be fun!