Doug Stamper is one of my favorite characters. Quiet like a shadow, but a presence that's felt by those who know him.

I remember the first time I watched  House of Cards wondering who this quiet bald man with an intense stare was. Why was he always getting himself into these...

My job  freshmen year was at McWhirter Hall. I was a janitor. They paid me 7.93 an hour, there was no negotiation. I applied, they interviewed me, and then they told me that was the pay when would I like to begin.

The job was easy enough. My four hour shift...

My  phone sits down the hall from my bedroom, on top of a short stand that has a cedar wood bowl. In the bedroom is a clock, but it shows no numbers. When I wake I can glance at the wall and know what time it is without having to...

The car was quite old, almost twenty years by this point, but it had only around 85 or so thousand miles on it. Tim would take much pride in how long he'd driven that thing, but I would always remind him that it wasn't so impressive to have a two...

In the summer they kill out of irritation. Not randomly, but the people you hate on the other side of the street, suddenly they rub you the wrong way and you might not let it go like you might in the winter. That  Heat gets to you and you just...

When I was a  sophomore I roomed with a guy who slept only four, five hours a night. If I were to hear of such a guy nowadays, I would think that that's unhealthy and unsustainable. But back in  college , not sleeping was seen as cool. Not because not...

red was the color of the  coat you always wore. Everybody else in our writing class remembered you for that one feature. I didn't, but you pointed it out to me "who else wears a red coat?"

The perfume you used was  Dolce and Gabbana Blue. I had never smelled it...

Broke my streak this week because one evening I began watching the film Heat , which  therealbrandonwilson once vouched for. I wasn't expecting such a long movie. I only got halfway through and it was my  bedtime . The second half would need...

They are at the same college . They do not meet in real life or even speak, but out of the blue she adds him on Facebook . Even though he hasn't thought about her in months this excites him. She is attractive and feels familiar. They both went to...

He once accepted a bet, that he could eat nothing but peanut butter sandwiches for an entire month. At first the tail-yanker was saying he couldn't even last two weeks. But he, being bold, claimed he could last three. Then after a little back and forth the two were now...