((Louay Al-Dabbaq - Pregame Start))

Punting was both a success and a failure to Louay.

On one hand, it meant that the offence had failed. They could not convert a first down and had to let the other team have the ball as a result - even if Louay booted it to their one-yard line, it was still a ...

“See ya.” Michael waved goodbye, watching Chester saunter off into the darkness of the night.

Well, as dark as it could get in Las Vegas anyway. Place was like 90% neon lighting and LEDs. You could probably see it from space. And then you had whatever the Sphere was looking like at that particular ...

“No worries man, anytime.” Checking the ground again for anything dangerous, Michael pushed himself up. Kinda sucked he had to check for stuff like that, but nobody gave a shit about this place. Letting kids play here would just be a health and safety hazard.

“Uh, want me to call you an Uber or ...

"Hey, shit happens. I used to be an asshole to my dad - well, we were both assholes to each other. Long story, but we've got a better relationship now. Guess it's just part of being a guy our age, we tend to clash with our parents. I dunno." 'Better relationship' was sort of an overstatement, but it ...

OK. OK, uh. Alright. Alright. Uhhh. Uhhhhhhhhhh. What the fuck does he do here. For all of his knowledge, Michael wasn't exactly great at the whole comforting people who were clearly having a bad time thing. Especially since, uh, he also got the vibe that whatever Chester was upset about wasn't ...

hey, hey careful

watch where you're walking smh

[+] voice message 11s

"And, ahhhh, yeah. Yeah. That is, uh, they are very nice... purring, though? What, are you a catgirl? Snrk. Oh - uh, yeah, I see you too!"

OK, uh,

maybe this was a liiiiiiitle bit above his paygrade. Not that he was getting paid for this, shame, but Michael just kinda had the vibe that this guy had things going on that were maybe a little too complex for them to properly break down and analyse in the beat up playground. Uh. Uhh ...

I dunno I guess like

OK trying to figure out how to expand in a way other than 'voice nice'

"I guess uh... it's nice and soft? Like, hah, I'm trying to figure out to say what I mean but... I, shit, I dunno. It's just soft and nice to hear. I could listen to you talk all day."

i am SO bad ...

"I always heard that this time of year - right after Christmas - is pretty bad for some people. You've still got two months of winter to look forward to and all the festivities are over. Just cold and... well, I guess not cold for us. I guess that like, all the talk about being sad because of the ...

yeah Henry Ruggs or smth like that

kinda stuck with me because like

dude pretty much had it all and he threw it all away because he wanted to drink and drive

and hey you're valid! even if he's a shitty guy who killed someone he can still have a nice car

"Well, uh, I wouuuuld be lying if ...

Chester! That was it. Michael knew he'd seen his face before in Red Rock, and history class sounded right. A quick scramble of the brain didn't really return anything other than that he'd heard 'Chester Bissette' called during rolecall a couple of times, so guess this was first impressions, huh ...

The more he looked at the guy, the more faintly familiar he became. Definitely from Red Rock, but he couldn’t put a name to the face. It’d come to him at some point, but for now Michael just wanted to make sure he was alright.

“Uhh, no Neosporin or anti-inflammatory. There’s a vending machine ...

((Michael Goldstein continued from The Heterosexual Love Between an Urbanist Boy and a Car Girl ))

"Hey, uh, you good?"

A maybe familiar face peered down at Chester, concern evident on his face. Michael didn't normally come through this part of downtown, but he'd decided to run through here rather ...

((Michael Goldstein continued from A Healthy Breakfast ))

South Korea was seventeen hours ahead of Las Vegas. Or Las Vegas was seventeen hours behind South Korea. Take your pick. The result was that it took so goddamn long to wait for Michael and David schedules to line up so they could call. He’d ...

I guess it's like

A lot of the urbanist people spend most of their time online in the urbanist community and so you naturally assume that people agree with you on the basics

And so to stand out, maybe you need to get a little more extreme, drop the hot takes

Maybe irony poisonign wasn't ...