Miles Klee
Internet Culture
Posted on Sep 25, 2014 Updated on May 30, 2021, 12:48 pm CDT
Children feel strongly about things—even the sort they don’t understand. And while adults could ruminate on the semantics of “raining” versus “sprinkling” as they apply to the current weather, kids tend to think of being right as a zero-sum game won by brute contradiction.
But enough from me. Listen to this masterful debate already.
At the end of the day, I believe we can agree on two things: It’s wet outside, and “you poked my heart” is a phrase that pokes you right in the heart.
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*First Published: Sep 25, 2014, 3:18 pm CDT
Miles Klee is a novelist and web culture reporter. The former editor of the Daily Dot’s Unclick section, Klee’s essays, satire, and fiction have appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, Vanity Fair, 3:AM, Salon, the Awl, the New York Observer, the Millions, and the Village Voice. He's the author of two odd books of fiction, 'Ivyland' and 'True False.'
