New Reasons

"twinkly-eyed, he shrugs and says, 'Everyone has their thing.'"

Oct. 13, 2014 | Peterson, Mark. “The Rise and Fall of the Proud Boys.” Rolling Stone, July-Aug. 2021.

Oct. 13, 2014 | Peterson, Mark. “The Rise and Fall of the Proud Boys.” Rolling Stone, July-Aug. 2021.

Notes to Self are longer journal entries from Seven Yrs Ago. I was 21 late 2014.

OITNB idea—bi character uses men to her advantage when she really just leans lesbian

Heard talk by Nick Jones, writer on OITNB! Hoopla

OITNB character finds out her boyfriend/husband’s a pimp

  • First thinks he’s simply cheating on her

  • Later finds out about the (other) hos (who are mostly decent women)

  • Maybe conspires with a ho to take him down but they get outed somehow


Wes Andersonian scene:

12 y/o, skinny black tan (like skinny white kid but black) with cig talking to sidekick as he watches the 8-10 y/os practice for the next swim meet. He watches then turns his back on them. “Poor bastards.”


Visual: “More horrific than my drawing skills”

Visual: “More horrific than my drawing skills”

Visual: Ripping a face in half in both directions at once

More horrific than my drawing skills


Unused joke for midterm comic version of The King’s Speech:

Gangly teen’s (male hero ugh) love interest says that his classmate is “hung like a horse.”

Teen goes to the estate stables and checks out a particularly large horse’s genitalia. Lionel catches them and instead of shaming the red-faced boy, twinkly-eyed, he shrugs and says, “Everyone has their thing.”


Real life scene: listening to “I wanna love you” lyrics from Girls’ “Vomit” song while indecisively discussing what to do with our relationship, legs intertwined, heads apart while lying on the bed