Stoned, Naked, and Looking in My Neighbor's Window
Edited by Gabriel Jeffrey

Just a quick-and-dirty review for a quick and dirty book: GroupHug.us is an anonymous, public-confessional website. People are invited to write in with tales from their past, sordid or otherwise, but generally things that they aren't proud of. Their confession will then forever be known by their randomly generated numeric IDs.

Recently there's a "best of" (or at least fairly representative") collection from this book, Stoned, Naked, and Looking in My Neighbor's Window. (As far as I could tell, that wasn't an actual confession in the book but it sounded like it could have been.) The book, unlike the site, is divided into different topics: "shame", "cheat", "life", "fear", "hate", "kink", "lie","love", "use", and "steal"

The book make for some great light reading, with the reader feeling various amounts of sympathy, empathy, disgust, etc in response to the various tales. You can't be sure if all the confessions are true, but most seem likely to be kosher.

Of most interest to the typical Blender reader is the section love. Just a small sampling of the bits:


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My girlfriends past bothers me...a lot.

I don't know why I can't get over it...


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i was already scheduled to visit a few of my friends at a popular university two hours from here last weekend when this guy i'm dating pissed me off. when my friends and i went out saturday night, we all got drunk and i wound up making out with some random guy. i even made a haiku about it: "boy back home won't know / why not make out with this guy? / i think his name's rob."


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I have spent the last three nights spooning and holding hands with a very beautiful intelligent women - in her bed. Since she is so attractive, I was too insecure to make a serious move on her while spooning. Now she only refers to me as 'her buddy'. I missed the chance of my lifetime. I love her. I blew it. Life sucks.


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I miss the Sierra Mist I left on the bus more than I miss my boyfriend.


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I really am not attracted to my girlfriend anymore. I stay with her because of the dog.


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I still think of my ex-wife's boobies.


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i wish i could find the nerve to ask her out





finding out her name would be a start

So go get the book, or at least check out the site.


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