http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2009/08/12/ask-chris-where-does-the-title-of-your-blog-come-from/ To be awake is to be alive. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:24:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2009/08/12/ask-chris-where-does-the-title-of-your-blog-come-from/comment-page-1/#comment-13620 sambearpoet Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:05:14 +0000 http://www.unquietdesperation.com/?p=932#comment-13620 <p>After listening to Kelly's "Burn", Thoreau will never be the same to me. I love the idea of being a noncomformist. I think that adolescents should not read this essay, however because they typically use it as an excuse to willfully obtuse - I know I did. Obtuse does not mean you are not comforming: You can conform by doing the opposite of what is conforming: so that's why stores like Hot Topic exist.</p> After listening to Kelly's “Burn”, Thoreau will never be the same to me. I love the idea of being a noncomformist. I think that adolescents should not read this essay, however because they typically use it as an excuse to willfully obtuse – I know I did. Obtuse does not mean you are not comforming: You can conform by doing the opposite of what is conforming: so that's why stores like Hot Topic exist.

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