You know those tv shows and coming-of-age stories with the weird nerdy kid trying desperately and failing miserably to be cool? And the synopsis on the back of the VHS tape always promises it will be a timeless classic because everyone remembers a time in their childhood when they were that person? Yeah, that wasn't me. Some people are born cool, some people try desperately to become cool, and some people are offered a handful of invitations into the "cool" group and puzzle over them, mistake them for coasters, and come back to them years later thinking "huh, I could've been an underground alternative hip-hop guru picking street fights and bootlegging copies of
Ill Communication at the age of 8. Go figure."
Okay, maybe that only happened to me.
