After wasting thousands of hours of my life in comment sections, I decided it was time to go one step further, to start writing right on top of the Internet. But here's the catch: I vowed to make myself stop all this yapping, to listen a little bit, to see if this exercise could get me to see the Internet (and life) differently by using the words of other people— mainly writers and musicians and artists I love, like Sappho or Jay-Z—when I did my scribbling.

More about webscribbles here. And this is who I am.

Also, you should know that this stuff is a helluva lotta fun. If you'd like to try one, I would love to see it. Here are some instructions on how to do it, and here's how to send me your scribbles.

And please, don't worry if you're not a design expert. It's fine if they look like they were done by someone who's never done anything like this before. That's kind of the point.