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*back to regular posting – the book is headed to the editors (my friends)! I was glued to my TV Friday night watching the memorial service of Ted Kennedy. I love the Kennedy’s – Ted in particular – as much as any Boston College-educated liberal democrat. I also have a strange thing for memorial services, commemorative events, roasts, that part of the Oscars where Tom …
quick note for today. finishing up the book this week!Chris and his friend Chris and I were talking about some Boston-based group of girls that one of the two Chris’s knew. (paraphrased): “They’d always invite me to do stuff around town,” Chris was saying, “but it’s like – no I don’t want to go to the museum with you – I’m a guy and none …
*The below letter clearly summarizes my mission in a format that’s easily posted, tweeted, pasted into status messages, and emailed around to everyone you know. We can do this, America. Dear Sir or Madam:I’m on a personal mission to date a member of the Obama family, and I believe you can help. A CHANGE of dating tactic YOU CAN BELIEVE INFinding an eligible man in …
I wasn’t kidding about this I-date-a-relative-of-Barack-Obama situation. The formal search has begun and is now organized into a three prong approach: 1. Ancestry.com searching and susequent contactingLast week I had the following conversation with Carly: Carly: i can help!! i have literally done this kind of Me: this is so wonderful Carly: i have my family tree back to rev war and saw that i …
Today marks the 300th post – a fact I am equal parts proud of and surprised by. Some things happen for a reason, others because you make them happen, and a strange, special few because of an unexpected combo between the former, latter and luck. And so with that momentum as motivation – I’ve decided to self-publish — twice. 20-Nothings — A collection of …
You think things are going fairly well. Maybe you’ve hooked up once or twice. Perhaps you connected really well at some bar or house party. Could be you went on what you believed was a bonafide date. Then this text: hey kiddo – going to be late to the bar but c u there ltr Or this email: hey kiddo – sure I’d be up for …
Sometimes the best way to understand what it means to be a new-ish adult is to stop being one. That’s what Angela, the title character from the web series 2/8 LIFE (get it?) does in episode one of the show’s second season. She moves out of the adult apartment she shared with 3-sometimes-4-sometimes friends and back into a cereal-stocked house where tickets to the Miley …
Finding my Obama There’s no question that Barack Obama was a smart guy to marry — brains, looks, charm, American presidency — just the kind of guy you could bring home to Mom. So it would only seem logical that a relative of our Husband-in-Chief would possess those same qualities that made Barry so datable in the first place. He would be a catch. This …
William H. Macy recently told my friend Kim that if she kept working hard, getting herself out there and not burning any bridges she’d know everyone she needed to get anything done by the time she was 31. No. Not via twitter. Backstory: My friend Kim, witty Kim, is a reporter for Broadway.com. As such she interviews stars of the stage like “Call me Bill” …
You think you know what it means to be a strong woman — a strong person even — and then you read this essay. “Sure, you have your marital issues, but on the whole you feel so self-satisfied about how things have worked out that you would never, in your wildest nightmares, think you would hear these words from your husband one fine summer day: ‘I …