STD: The Stephen Tully Dierks Collection

                Stephen Tully Dierks: where to begin? I call him the glue of the alt lit community. Everything he does is positive. Guess Dierks is the beautiful brooding baby boy of the blogosphere. How do I know this? Look at that freaking face. He’s single? How does this even happen? Life sure is crazy sometimes. 

                Each day Stephen tumbles into Tumblr. Day or night, the tumbling just has to feel right. Recently Pop Serial got a makeover. A few people told Stephen that Pop Serial was too ‘dark’ via black background and white text. Now it has reversed. Some have stated this is due to a sudden positive life change, that Mr. Dierks has finally found true meaning in his life, but I doubt that. I think Stephen just wanted to Pop Serial a little hotter. According to HTML Giant, it was voted the #24^th hottest Litmag. That is an outrage. Pop Serial is really hot. Usually before I read Pop Serial I need to take a really cold shower, before I go out into the cold air of my unheated apartment. Then I warm myself by the glow of my computer screen and the sensual re-blogs of Pop Serial. 

                Is that all? Yeah, you probably think that’s all. You’d be dead freaking wrong! Stephen, in an attempt to expand his web presence (i.e. pick up hot alt lit babes) has created a new, more personal and indeed more intimate Tumblr. This one goes over his tremendous personal output. For you can only do Tumblr boosts for so long, before you got to branch out and leave the re-blog nest. Stephen spread his wings and soared right through that open door. 

                ‘Everything is sad and sad-making’ is a tragic tale about relationships. It has a beautiful, colorful background. On top of that background we get small details, often a single sentence, to form a greater picture about these two people who are in some sort of sad relationship. It reminds me of that line ‘As soon as we are born we start dying’. When the relationship begins in this story, it starts to end. I felt sad that their relationship didn’t work out, felt sad they were close but distant, and most of all, felt sad they were living in Wisconsin. For me it just doesn’t seem right to have that sort of relationship in America’s heartland, like that should be some East elite latte-drinking liberal’s problem. Maybe what Stephen is trying to say is this happens everywhere, that it isn’t unusual but it isn’t uncommon. Dysfunction is universal. All we can do is learn from it and maybe get a little better for next time until one day we can find them. You know your alt missing piece to make you whole. 

                Hope you all find your alt missing piece. I want you all to roll on, to rock on, and to be one. Glad Mr. Dierks reminds all of us about the importance of being human.