Crushing Krisis

Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand

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Krisis has been creating Crushing Krisis since 2000, writing songs since 1996, and reading comics since 1991. He is a Customer Success and Digital Brand Strategy executive, serial organizer, parent, and feminist, among other things. Based in Philly through 2017, he now resides in Wellington, NZ.

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Where to begin.


This feels disturbingly like ninth grade. I remember my ninth grade dance… there was quite a fiasco about who i would bring, and i wound up bringing the most harmless nonromantic person i could bring and i wound up having an excellent time. I don’t know what possessed me to attempt to use an invitation to a dance as a tool of romantic acquisition, but it probably for the best that i didn’t get a chance to ask. Of course, not having a chance to ask made me possibly more miserable than hearing a no, but thank god other people have more sense than me. Thank God.

So, we danced for hours and had excellent fun, and it didn’t occur to me once that i wished i was with anyone else. Sometimes life has its serendipitous ways with us and we don’t even realize it until the dancing is done.

https://crushingkrisis.com/2002/01/9085822/

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Um… thank you? I mean… hell, anyone who calls me sassy and then in the same breath acknowledges my “bunch of girlfriends” has definitely improved my day.


(“bunch”? Like, a bunch of grapes. Doesn’t that imply more than one? Maybe this connects back to the part about me being “Lesbian Boy“)

https://crushingkrisis.com/2002/01/9029942/

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Speaking of which, try to follow this one:


At the start of Fall Semester i was in a student written/directed play. After our second performance, we had a reception, during which i was introduced to a pair of incredibly attractive roommates and a boy whose cuteness i considered a personal affront and challenge. I saw the three of them again at auditions for Lysistrata, where i pointed out the roommates to my own roomies, remarking upon which one i found especially distracting (despite their separate but equally stunning attractiveness). The other one of them was cast in the play, and shortly thereafter i was informed that she “wanted to marry me,” which struck me as strange since we hadn’t ever really spoken at length. I proceeded to make a sloppy drunken mess of hitting on her at a party, while i had the majority of my conversation with her uninterested roommate. A month later i asked said uninterested roommate out on a date based on her interest in paying attention to me upon further meetings. It was the perfect date, but did not seem to result in anything romantic, which i lamented at length. Lest i have the chance to put this crush behind me, she wound up being on the Stage Management staff with me for Formicans. Rest assured, it’s been all business. I was encouraged to ask her to our winter Ball, but balked, and when i finally got up the never i found out that she was attending with the cute freshmen guy (obviously my uncharacteristic distraction due to his cuteness was prophetic more than homosexual… who woulda thunk it?). I immediately swore off attending the Ball, only to have my mind changed by (drumroll, anyone?) her roommate, who asked me to go the next day.


So, i’m going to my winter formal with a girl who had a crush on me even though i sortof went on a date with her roommate and only didn’t ask said roommate to the formal because she was already planning to attend with the cute boy i met only seconds after meeting the both of them. Hors d’oeuvres at eight, dancing until one.

Drama served throughout.

https://crushingkrisis.com/2002/01/9029502/

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The other day in Public Relations we were talking about dealing with emergencies. The section was entitled: Crisis Management. I turned to Laurel and said “This is so cool! He’s going to talk about me.”


I definitely caught me teacher looking at my strangely as i headed each page in bold red letter with my personal spelling of crisis. I think he might speak the language that actually spells it that way. Did you know that the three attributes of a crisis are that it threatens central goals, involves short decision making time, and involves an element of surprise? It is a stage in which all future events will be determined. It is a situation that threatens the effective completion of high priority goals.

Sure, he was talking about the Exxon Valdez more than he was making veiled references to my personal life, but i still managed to take six pages of notes just in case any of it applied.

https://crushingkrisis.com/2002/01/9028841/