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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Lifestyle
Matthew Cantor

I live in an uninhabitable ‘boy room’ – can a comedian save me from myself?

a messy room with a pile of posters and other papers in the corner, next to a dog bed and a bookcase with a cloth draped over it and a fan, speaker and photo sitting on it
The writer’s Boy Room. Photograph: The Guardian

Snowboarding boots on the kitchen table. A steering wheel in the bedroom. And clothes absolutely everywhere, with no system to determine which, if any, are clean.

These are just a few of the sights that indicate you’re in a boy room. It’s a bedroom with no form and little function, inhabited by an adult male who doesn’t think much about either concept. The decor, if you can call it that, generally consists of arbitrary trinkets – a favorite old skateboard on the wall, a handful of childhood action figures on the windowsill. The floor is often difficult to see thanks to the density of piled-up sneakers or trash. The best you can say for the furniture is that there might be some; otherwise the resident sleeps on a bare mattress set directly on the floor, with a single pillow and a coverless duvet insert.

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