Ricky Gervais Is Very Right Sometimes

May 20, 2011

For instance, Ricky Gervais is 100% dead right about the unprecedented stuntcasting in last night’s finale of The Office. Watching The Office finale may remind some of the Chris Martin episode of Extras. “It’s only Warren Buffett…….. What are you doing in a paper merchant’s in Scranton? It’s mental.” If you’re going to jump a shark, [...]

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A Short Play About Parenting

May 17, 2011

9:29:28 AM Will Edmondson: kids are always fun and cute 9:29:34 AM Will Edmondson: its hard for a kid to be a dick 9:29:35 AM Tara Ariano: hahahahahahaha 9:29:42 AM Tara Ariano: They’re not always fun or cute. 9:29:51 AM Tara Ariano: That is a lie propagated by the Kid Council. 9:29:56 AM Will Edmondson: [...]

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Things I Think At, But Do Not Say To, People At The Gym #33

May 10, 2011

People are trying to work on their health, so when you’re deciding what channels to put on the TVs by the cardio machines, you need to avoid Paula’s Home Cooking.

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Happy Mother’s Day!

May 8, 2011

The adult woman in the photo above is my mom, circa 1982. In her lap is my sister, and to her right is me, clearly plotting violence against the interloper. Good times.

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Things I Think At, But Do Not Say To, People At The Gym #32

May 6, 2011

Your maid doesn’t work here. This one actually came very close to being a Thing I Thought At And Then Said To A Person At The Gym. I was on an elliptical machine yesterday when an older lady came up and got on the one beside me. Before she even turned it on, I could [...]

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A Short Play About The Maxim Hot 100

May 4, 2011

12:20:08 PM Tara Ariano: BTW when the “Maxim” Hot 100 came out yesterday, I scanned the list just thinking which ones you’d approve of. 12:20:49 PM Will Edmondson: yeah I havent seen it 12:21:01 PM Tara Ariano: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (?) is #1. 12:21:17 PM Will Edmondson: bravo 12:21:20 PM Will Edmondson: I approve of that [...]

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NYC Donut Crawl 2011: Some Terrible Ideas Are Also Great Ideas

April 19, 2011

Sometime in February, I was spending a Saturday night doing my favourite thing: lying on the couch watching TV and periodically checking Twitter, only to scroll past my friend Melissa rhapsodizing about the lemon meringue donut from Dough. Knowing she lives in another part of town, I mentioned the superior donuts at Bomboloni, not far [...]

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A Short Play About That One Chinese Place

April 12, 2011
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School-Themed Stress Dreams Never Stop

April 12, 2011

Apparently? Maybe that’s only true if you were a nerd about school. You might think that being almost fifteen years past any kind of organized educational situation (excuse me while I go eat my gun at THAT number) would mean that school-related anxiety would stop being a useful dream metaphor. Not for me. Last night, [...]

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Things I Think At, But Do Not Say To, People At The Gym #31

April 6, 2011

I know that the men’s locker room and the spa are directly beside each other, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to walk through the public area from the former to the latter wearing nothing but a towel.

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