The Very Incomplete Life Tips of Everett D. Maroon
At long last, Twitter has a feature for downloading one’s entire tweet history. As I have more than 27,000 tweets out there (think of all the wasted time, people), this took a little while to get on my machine. But I’ve been wanting to grab my tweets for a few years now because I wanted to see what the full list of “life tips” that I’ve written looks like.
Indeed, it borders on pithy, even if a lot of these aren’t useful to people. Here is the full list:
| Life tip No. 4: People who like to tell you what’s morally pure usually aren’t.
Life Tip No. 9: No matter how appealing, never try to catch a falling knife. Life Tip No. 10: Avoid thunking your infant’s head into the overhead compartment for a smoother travel experience. |
| Life Tip No. 19: Never rub your eyes after eating buffalo wings. Ditto for picking your nose.
Life Tip No. 20: If you have six chocolate chip cookies for breakfast, prepare for a mid-morning snack of heartburn. |
Life Tip No.22: When everything and everyone around you suddenly start annoying you, consider that it might just BE you.
Life Tip No. 23: Whenever someone introduces their remarks as “Straight Talk,” know that it’s going to be bullshit. Read More…
I couldn’t bring myself to title this post “Everything I Know I Learned from My Sex Change,” because I’m not a fan of Jackson Browne, but it is true that I’ve gleaned some stellar lessons through the gender transition experience, many of them “scalable” to life more generally. Here are but a few of those pointers.
Trans/plant/portation 