R.S. Mason is a Seattle expatriate currently living in Boston, studying political science at Northeastern University. He evades questions with alarming alacrity. He enjoys wit, irony, and storytelling, and believes that people are basically good, even the bad ones, and that there’s nothing that you can’t make into a good story if you try hard enough. In attempts to prove himself wrong, he writes a microfiction blog called Dreamers Often Lie, which is frequently morose and usually both more and less true than he would hope.

The title When I Like Something comes from a song by Harvey Danger, “Pike St./Park Slope,” which features the following lyrics, which R.S. Mason will argue are the most quotable song lyrics ever penned: “When you like something / it’s an opinion / but when I like something / it’s a manifesto.” The song, by the way, is about a man who moved out of Seattle to try his luck in New York, only to return a year or so later, his luck having failed him. The lesson he probably should have learned from this is that you can’t blame your city for your troubles.