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icarus: about post-secret

Posted: Feb 24th 2008
Mood: Bored
Music: they might be giants - particle man

post secret is a project where people write their secrets on post cards and mail them to some address. they're collected and put into a book. most are the usual whiny nonsense ('i hate being fat' 'you didn't dance with me' 'my daddy doesn't love me' etc) with a few gems ('i ate a m&m off the bathroom floor' etc) but in general i think the entire thing is a retarded desperate egotrip and i hate the crap out of it. it's not art, it's masturbation by mail.

but
i think if i were to post to post secret
my secret would be
that sometimes i secretly think
about posting to post secret
even though i hate it.

Comments

Dial Up Says:

My secret is that I secretly ... I'm bat man

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Cypher Says:

My secret would be...
a urine-stained postcard with an m&m on it.

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Shadow Drakken Says:

my secret is...
i locked chuck norris in my basement for 2 years before he became famous! 8c

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GarudaSerpent Says:

xD i've actually been thinking about trying to get a thing going where people do one of those "SECRETS" shows about one of their characters like the ones they would parody on conan o'brien...i dunno where they actually came from

my secret would be...

i enjoyed the DOOM movie D<
i deserve agony don't i

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Basil Bombedo Says:

I sat in a book store and read through most of one of those Post Secret books...it was sort of funny, sort of sad, but...

Immediately afterward I felt I'd been cheated out of ten minutes. 8( The Borders staff refused to refund my time.

ChickenTeeth Says:

My secret is
I have no secret o:

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chiadro Says:

I leafed through this when I was in the bookstore. It's a pretty cool concept.

Sure, it gets repetitive. There were a few clever ones, but most of them are the same few themes over and over. But it's fun to recognize and empathize with an intensely personal sentiment for just a moment, and it's fun to skim the book and see the spectrum of private obsessions. I just know there are people who buy this book for the purpose of laughing at the freaks and losers though :(

It's the same thing I try to do with Chiadro's Diary really. I've let out some feelings that I usually keep bottled up... presenting them in a way that's hopefully entertaining to normal people.

Furries and birth control in the text ads. Wonder which keyword set that off.

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