Act 1: chad rivers, an expatriate architect and regular This American Life contributor, finds out he has clumsiness when he’s about to go on a road trip to Nevada, Missouri. He takes the road trip anyway.
Act 2: Ira talks about tooth brushing when he was a kid, and how the experience taught him the importance [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2008’
mad libs
Rodney
yesterday, I met a man who named his dog after Rodney Dangerfield.
Breaking my heart
Simon & Garfunkel: Cecilia
I was 19 years old. I have discovered sex, music, booze, how to fail without crumbling to dust, and the northern lights. I’ve also learned there’s no romance to tragedy.
A small group of people sang this a-capella, to memorialize a girl I didn’t know, and they brought me to bitter, embarrassed [...]