Posts tagged as FIrst Person
I Am Definitely Not Running the Marathon This Weekend
My friend Josh and I have a Friday tradition. At the end of each workweek, one of us contacts the other with an e-mail titled “Plans,” a self-explanatory note in which we describe the various events of the days ahead. Sometimes these e-mails come through early in the morning before I even get to my office. Sometimes they slip in just before midnight. But for the past few years, we’ve been pretty diligent about our routine, detailing everything from “finish book” to “clean my apt because it is a disaster after my party last night.” READ MORE
My Former Best Friend's Wedding
I came late to Facebook, after going through all the predictable phases: the disdain, the excuses, the stalking via “borrowed” log-in, the particular form of procrastination known as “what-would-I-put-in-my-hypothetical-profile?,” followed eventually by an ambivalent, job-search related realization that I had to bite the bullet. But before I did—before I opened the floodgates of reconnection—I knew I had to pick up the phone and call my childhood best friend. We hadn’t talked in years, but I couldn’t stand the thought of putting our past on the same level as everyone else’s, basically ensuring that our long history would be reduced to smiley, yearbook-style platitudes. READ MORE
Why I Did It: How I Came to Write a Comic Book About an Aborted Fetus
In Why I Did It, artists and authors explain just why they made something. This week, Matthew Lickona talks about the making of Alphonse: A Monster For Our Time, a comic book about, yes, an aborted fetus. READ MORE
Cultural Globalization and Pakistani Rap Beggars, with Cord Jefferson
About two years ago, on a sluggish L into Manhattan, the train stopped suddenly somewhere under the East River, flinging forward anyone who hadn't been gripping seat or strap. I watched as a white gentleman-neo-nerdy and a bit old for his skinny jeans-reached much too late for the pole to his left. He stumbled hard into a black guy about 15 years his junior and one foot taller, causing the black guy to drop his soda. Immediately, everyone fell silent and stared, as if the spilled Dr. Pepper were a Baselitz he'd been delivering as a gift. READ MORE
In Defense of Male Femmes
"'The Adam Carolla Project' aired in 2005 on The Learning Channel. Not only was I Adam's real-life assistant, but I played the role on the show, too. It's not a closely guarded secret, like the time a man gave me 100 dollars to suck my dick in a deserted parking lot; it's just information I typically choose not to divulge." And then the gays turned on him for being faggy.
