guess no one else will...

Okay, the assignment for tonight was to read the first two essays. "Go Carolina", and "Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities" respectively. I guess the first logical question here, is what did everyone think about these two essays? More importantly, what does everyone think of David Sedaris himself?

Personally, I found both of the essays to be humorous and kind of entertaining. But, they're kind of dry. This guy's gay, and he's used various drugs. I know there's more he can talk about and I'm waiting for that to kick in. But as far as these two essays went... I noticed he likes to make readers read between the lines a lot. He doesn't come out and explicitly say things that often. You have to be smarter than the average bear sometimes to get what he's really trying to say. I don't mean it in the sense that the essays themselves are hard to read; on the contrary, I found them of no particular difficulty whatsoever. But you just have to open your mind a little and "unlock" the essay so to speak.

And that brings me to the other situation here: the whole opening my mind issue. I take it none of us can say we share many experiences with him, or can say "yeah I know how that feels." Its going to be challenging at times, but what do you guys think?