Are you sure this isn’t a Norm MacDonald bit?

That’s a really underhanded thing to do.

I guess they’re still pretty close, and that’s cool and all, but there’s no need to brag about it. My little league coach was there when I lost my virginity, and the tears were in my eyes, and you don’t hear him blubbering to the Mercury News about it. “Act like you been there before,” Coach Barry would say. I did. I d…

“You ain’t no real nigga. You a white boy, you preppy, you rich boy.”

It was way more than what he did with the ball. He was, for lack of a better word, an outlaw. Literally doing whatever he wanted with no thought of others. That seemed cool as a younger person, that he could be (one of) the best without seeming to conform to anything in any way.

I don’t know about him, but I totally flipped when my ex got engaged to a mutual friend of ours. I went to a bar and ended up drinking with red neck comedian Ron White that night.

Adnan.

Every single one

Nick Bodell

Pizza guy, there at the bottom? That guy is my fucking hero.

“Thank you for remembering me,” he says. “It’s nice to be remembered.”

I’ve been haunted by Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things since I read it, and one chapter was a letter asking her about this very thing. She replied with a story of how she came to marry and then leave her first husband, and basically it came down to—she left because she wanted to. As great a guy as he was, as much…

I see so many of my friends in their 20’s settling for the “easy” choice — the guy who isn’t going to leave, maybe he’s not that smart or ambitious but he’s nice, you’ve already been living together for 5 years so maybe it’s time to get hitched. And they’re oh, so good about putting on a happy show, lots of photos…

Not an good writer.

The last 5 pounds? Well that's just fucking adorable.

Any place is better. That relationship is about as toxic for all concerned as it could possibly be.

FACT: Bears eat beets.
Bears.
Beets.
Battlestat Galactica.

Jamie Layton’s story reminds me of a famous story I heard when I was working at a regional theater festival.