28 posts tagged “men”
Whenever I listen to This American Life, much like I am now, I imagine your average boring 40-something dude with kids who's frustrated with his life and would really rather be at home listening to the broadcast rather then "schlepping" (his word, not mine) his kids to their New Age music class and maize husk weaving intensive.
He's the kind of person who never sees his children because he is always working to support them, but that is a choice. They have nicer clothes than they need, and he has an enormous amount of time to feel unattached. He feels like his borderline negligent disconnect from his children is made up for by the fact that they have unusually high vocabularies and interesting first names that no other kids in their classes have.
Basically, if you were to witness this man at a corner store on a Sunday morning while This American Life was waiting for him on the stereo back in his Audi, he would be so flustered reaching in to his pocket to find a quarter and trying to communicate to his kids to please, please, please stand still for just one moment so he can pay for the newspaper and leave to take them to their lessons that you would die a bit inside and hope for more understanding between all of them.
When I listen to This American Life, I think of this imaginary man that lives in my head, and I think about the parts of the show that would make him chuckle to himself, the things that stood out in his mind as particularly clever or witty. And then I think about why they made him laugh. I think about what journey the joke had to go through in his head to make the punchline connect to the rest of the joke in a way that would bring an actual laugh out of him.
Usually by this point, I feel like crying.
People don't know each other anymore, you guys. People don't even know how to function. Myself very much included.
This isn't about This American Life. I love This American Life... but the feelings it evokes for this bitch straight up speak to the human condition, and I don't know man, I think that's pretty depressing.
This American Life, huh? You didn't have to be so freakin' literal.
Alexis doesn't get mean often, but when she does it's like that crazy sorority girl gone loose in Cabo at some all-inclusive resort where she takes a liking to the taste of Bahama Mamas and a bartender named Stephan who would run away with her if only his wife was dead. When Alexis assumes this persona it's like she's all "I'll kill your fucking wife in a hot second if you promise to never leave me."
Ride-or-die bitch, you guys. That's what she is. Forever.
How embarrassing it must be to have one secret and this be it.
[via postsecret]
"And to the person for which this whole video was made -- Jimmy Kimmel -- who broke my heart, um, who'll always have a place in my heart" - Sarah Silverman at last night's Creative Emmy Awards. (Variety)
I'm glad she did this. I'm glad to see a woman at the peak of her career still be human enough to publicly shame the man that hurt her.
If you cup your hand and slap a dude's ear and he STILL wants to hang out with you, then you're probably pretty lucky.
