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How Much Fun It Was Just Knowing Her
"That is the world and that’s how it works,Every heart’s broken so everyone’s jerks,And money don’t change it,drugs can’t erase it,you can’t blog it away"— Karen Kilgariff, "I Want to Win" "So, listen, you know, we’ll stay in touch. I’ll give you a call.""No I don’t think that’s necessary. I think we’re done here."— Dexter and Ian, One Day Several years ago, I told a story at an ex-themed…
Let's Talk About Ole Robby's Drinking
It was July and I showed up to my Sunday soccer game with a huge scrape on my knee. “Jesus, Penty, what happened to your knee?” “I fell off my CitiBike on the way home last night,” I said. A bunch of us had been on a bar crawl in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn called The Red Hook Rampage. I had left the festivities around midnight having been well served in several different bars. “So,…
I Hate Writing Resumes
When I got laid off in June, it sent me into a tailspin of anxiety, not just because I had lost my job, but because I would need to embark on something that a truly hate: looking for a new job. It didn’t help that the voice in my head was saying, “this is your own fault for not keeping up with your skills. You should have maintained your network. You should always be looking!” The voice in my…
Sapphire
“So, I get a pit bull named Keith and everybody told me Keith’s gonna be your best friend. And I gotta say, maybe my ninth best friend.” – Neal Brennan I have only one question for my dog Sapphire. It’s a simple question, a question she has been asked many many times. I ask it and then I give her the answer and yet she remains bafflingly oblivious every time I ask. “Sapphire, who’s the…
Meditation and the Anger Database
Last week I had between two and three days of internal rage, primarily because of the things I saw on social media. But one post got me really angry. Want to know what it was? It was a video of people filming their neighbor as they confronted her about stealing their cat. That was it. That video sent me into fits of mental rage. And sure, the neighbor’s tone was infuriatingly condescending and…
Voting, Insurance, and NaNoWriMo
It’s the beginning of November, right after Halloween, so I think it’s safe to say that it’s officially Christmas season. Bring on the red Starbucks cups! I voted early today at a school two blocks from my apartment – a different school than the one on actual election day. No idea how that stuff works but bless the poll workers. Usually you just walk in a side door to the gym but this year they…
I Got a Tattoo
Yeah, you read that right. I recently got a tattoo. And I know what you’re thinking. What did you get? I’ll tell you by the end. Saying what your tattoo idea is often sounds kind of dumb, so, I’m reluctant to tell you the way expectant parents are reluctant to tell you what they’re thinking of naming their child. My friend told me that literally after he told me what he was naming his son and I…
I Bet You’re Not Even From New York
For the past three years I’ve been playing pickup soccer most Sundays and Thursdays at the park a block away from my apartment in Park Slope. I met the guys who run it at the corner bar The Gate after I ran the marathon in 2021. I’d seen them around but was finally full of enough post-marathon beers to approach them and ask if I could play. I got the organizer’s number, shot him a text, started…
I Did Stand-Up With a Right Wing Douchebag
If the Dave Rubin I knew from stand-up decades ago saw that Patton Oswalt was retweeting him, he would have been pretty psyched. A famous comedian was paying attention to him and his content! It would be like he had arrived as a stand-up. The only problem is Patton wasn’t retweeting a joke or an announcement of a stand-up gig. He was retweeting, and subsequently mocking, Dave’s promise to delete…
Pants
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had occasion to wear pants: actual pants, with a button, a zipper, and belt loops, not the normal drawstring or elastc waist band numbers I’ve been living in for the past few years. I’ve spoken before about the importance of pants, primarily the act of putting them on when you find yourself homebound either through unemployment or a pandemic. There is nothing more…
Now what?
Unfortunately for my friends – not to mention co-workers, acquaintances, and particularly unlucky members of the service industry – I’m the kind of person that if you ask me how I am, I’ll tell you. I won’t spare details for politeness’s sake. If I feel like shit, I’ll tell you. If I’m having a hard time, I’ll tell you. And I’m not doing that great. I haven’t been for a while. I never thought…
My Second Worst New Year's Eve
I’ve learned not to have high hopes for New Year’s Eve. Even when I was younger and ostensibly had opportunity for a monumental outing, nothing much ever happened except excessive drinking. That suited me fine, though. The best New Year’s Eves I can remember during high school happened in someone’s living room. One year we watched The Shining and then I crashed at my friend Josh’s house. That was…
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Let's Talk About Fucking Wordle
Initially I mocked the green and yellow squares just started appearing on social media. Like most social media trends, I felt completely out of the loop. What the hell was this game and how was it that everyone discovered it and started playing it? My friends started a Wordle GroupMe group chat. I was included and asked to be removed. That was roughly a year and a half ago. You know the after…
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So, How Was the Marathon?
So, How Was the Marathon?
Short answer: pretty damn cool.
But before I get into that, I want to talk about what I learned about running.
I started training for the marathon in July. It was an eighteen week program from Hal Higdon. I think it was August when I was catching up with some friends. We were having some beers in my friend Ross’s back yard and by “we” I mean “they” because I told everyone that I had to run…
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Tomorrow I Run The New York City Marathon
Tomorrow I Run The New York City Marathon
I forget when I first got it my head to run a marathon. Maybe it was from friends running it, maybe it was from the excitement of the day. I remember telling myself I’d do it by 35. That didn’t happen.
In May of 2018, I ran my first half marathon. It felt like such a great accomplishment that I decided that day that I should run a full one. I even wrote a post about it.
Since then I’ve run…
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Fatigue
I ran 140 miles in the month of August. I’ll run more than that in September. It doesn’t seem odd to me anymore, though, it probably should. If I had to guess, I’d say I ran about ten miles total from the ages of 22 to 34.
I’m marathon training. And I’m tired. All the time. I’ve been too tired to write for a couple of months now but it’s time to change that.
I’m following Hal Higdon’s…
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The Bachelorette: Hometowns and My Hatred of Luke P.
The Bachelorette: Hometowns and My Hatred of Luke P. #bachelorette
I’ve never recapped an episode of The Bachelorette before so, I’ll assume that you have very little prior knowledge of this show other than it is a reality show in which a women chooses a man from a pool of suitors, thinning the herd week by week, offering a rose to those who will stay during the rose ceremony.
This past week was Hometowns. Our Bachelorette Hannah is down to four guys and it’s…
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