Not a Suck-Up, Really

Today, I get this email from the editor of American Nerd:

Hi Don,

awesome on all counts. Hey, I was meaning to ask... how did you find
out about the site? I'm always pretty curious to hear how the word is
getting out.

I distinctly remember saying to myself, "I hope I never get asked how I stumbled upon American Nerd." Of course, I not only get asked, but by the worst possible person. What choice did I have?

Keith,

I was afraid you were going to ask me this question, because the answer is going to sound like major ass-kissing, but I swear it's the truth...

The piece that kept me going back to the McSweeney's website (and buying Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans) was Journal of a New COBRA Recruit -- my fiance and I will still occassionally yell out "COBRA!" Anyway, I Google the authors of the pieces I like to see what else they might have written, and lo and behold, American Nerd was among the results.

Not an ass-kisser (much),
Don

Well, it was the truth.

Incidentally, I came up with this as my little "bio blurb." Hopefully, I'll get to use it more often

Don [avoids writing his last name on his blog] is an Asian-American who loves being asked “Where were you born?” so that he can truthfully reply, “Cleveland,” and watch the ensuing discomfort. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s.

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