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kleinbl00  ·  4705 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Big shrimp.
This sort of comment always astounds me.

All I did in that post was talk about shrimp. How does having an opinion about shrimp equate with "an interesting life?" One need not be a trend setter in order to eat shrimp - Forrest Gump indicates the opposite, in fact.

Robert McKee points out in "Story" that a good storyteller can hold you in thrall as he discusses his commute while a bad storyteller can bore you as he describes the death of his children in a fiery car accident. You're not noticing the shrimp, you're noticing the way I describe them.

That's not part of "an interesting life." That's part of "sharing my life in an interesting way." And frankly, it offends me that people presume that because I can relate stories in an interesting way, they might be untrue.

It's shrimp. If it's boring, why talk about it? And if it's interesting, why presume it's a lie?