Author: Marc Steuben

Is this some kind of sick joke? I signed up for multi-colored hair modeling fun not a lapful of neon doll dung. It took me months to get this Play-Doh set–its pretty rare. It comes with the Hair-Do Dolly figure, a little plastic chair for her to sit in, Play-Doh’s trademarked “Stylin’ scissors” and “Cool Comb,” plus one container each of purple and pink Play-Doh. I decided to go wild and jump right in with a little pink and a little purple. I did everything right–I inserted the doh carefully, pushing it all the way up to Dolly’s extrusion follicles,…

It’s just me and my tentmate in a two-person Sundome tent, deep in the woods. It’s 3am. We’ve been stuck in here for three days due to high winds, brutal rain, and lightning. The tent feels like it’s getting smaller by the hour–it’s like we’re in a one-and-a-half person tent now. I’ve decided to call it the Thunderdome because it sounds cool and there’s trouble brewing between me and my tentmate–who I think is going insane. I do know my tentmate’s name. It’s Dave. I know that because he’s been a friend for decades. Yesterday I started thinking of him as “my…