2018-07-12
21 分钟Modern.
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This is modern love stories of love, loss, and redemption.
I'm your host, Magna Chakrabarti.
Sometimes it takes going online to figure out who you are in the real world.
That's what Kala Oscari Matilla writes about in his piece catfishing strangers to find myself.
Corey Michael Smith performed the piece at our recent live show at the Provincetown Film Festival.
He stars in the new film 1985 and plays the Riddler in the Fox show Gotham.
More than a decade ago, when I was growing up in Finland, my model of an attractive woman was Pamela Anderson from Baywatch.
She was my father's favorite.
Whenever the boys at school asked me who I googled when my parents weren't home, I said Pamela, and the name was greeted with a unanimous nodding of heads.
I didn't care much for nude shots, but I liked that she was of finnish heritage.
My non sexual feelings for Pamela were just one of the things that made me an outcast.
Another was that I preferred computers to people.
And so, as a child who loved playing board games, I soon discovered I could play them online with strangers on a finnish gaming website.
To access the site, you typed in your username in the blank field, waited for a slot to open, and then found yourself in the main chat room, where you could challenge people to a round of blackjack, keno, or billiards.
Except it seemed no one else was there to play those games seriously.