2018 is over and I’m not sure how I feel about that. It’s not that I get overly emotional about the calendar ticking over to another January but it’s as good a time as any to reflect a little. On the one hand, in a lot of the traditional ways I gauge how my comedy… Continue reading Bye-bye, 2018
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I Made Myself Write Something
Sometimes I don’t know what to do. I’m not always sure how to move forward. I’m currently in a weird mood because on the one hand my new podcast—TeaBD—is doing pretty well, and that’s great. On the other hand, I’m having a hard time figuring out what to do with myself. This blog has been… Continue reading I Made Myself Write Something
Control Freaks
People love being in control. I’ve been thinking about this a lot and I got to see it in action the other day. I was at the bar and I watched someone order a flatbread. They wanted pepper on their pizza and asked the food runner for fresh pepper. The food runner handed the person… Continue reading Control Freaks
6 Things for the Perfect Café
What makes a café perfect? Good food and drink, cleanliness, and friendly service are all kind of obvious. I’m at a different café all the time and I have a few ways that these places could really go above and beyond other cafés.
TeaBD
There’s a new podcast out there on the podcast market and it’s called TeaBD! It’s hosted by me and my friend, Emily Riggins, and is about friendship and tea. Each week, we brew some tea and discuss a topic brought by one of the hosts and/or a guest. The topics are only known to the person bringing it (hence, TBD) and will hopefully create an interesting conversation…
Cities Aren’t Trying to Kill You
I have always lived in cities—in reverse chronological order and, interestingly, order of size: Brooklyn (NY), Boston (MA), and Worcester (MA). Every time I move to a bigger city, some people inevitably ask me about surviving in these places, as if millions of people are merely surviving in them. By “surviving,” they don’t mean how expensive it is to live in a city or any other kind of jokey definition of surviving. These people mean surviving in the literal sense. The following are two real examples of this happening to me…
My Favorite Magazine
I’m going to get sentimental today. A lot of people have a favorite toy or movie from their childhood. I have a favorite magazine. This isn’t just a magazine that I generally liked, it’s my favorite issue of my favorite magazine and, more specifically, my favorite issue of any magazine…