Storytelling coming to Connecticut! Save the date!
I've decided to launch a local storytelling series here in Connecticut, modeled after The Moth, the organization in New York City that hosts the storytelling events in which I compete…
Making a defeat look like a win
MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND did not win the 2012 Goodreads Choice Award. Being nominated was an honor, of course, and making it to the finals was thrilling, but the…
Best Christmas morning words ever spoken
It’s a little late, but I finally got around to looking at the video footage from Christmas. This was one of my favorite clips.
It’s ironic, damn it. Or close enough.
Anyone who criticizes Alanis Morissette’s song Ironic for its lack of irony is an intellectual douche bag. It’s a four minute pop song. It need not be held up to…
The Wizard of Oz versus Star Wars
Late last week I “stirred up a hornet’s nest” by writing a piece arguing that the reason Hasbro markets Easy Bake Ovens solely to girls is because the vast majority…
The most baffling part about the North Korean government is their inability to lie well.
The North Korean government is obviously unlike any other governing body in the world, but what I cannot understand is why they are such bad liars. While there may be…
The Flogsta Scream: Creepy and bizarre but I kind of love it.
Every night at 10:00 PM, the "Flogsta scream" can be heard in Flogsta, a neighborhood in the western outskirts of the Swedish city of Uppsala. At precisely this time, students…
Sorry, kid. Easy Bake Ovens are pink for good reason.
Around Christmas, a little girl became a momentary Internet sensation after appealing to Hasbro to make an Easy Bake Oven in a color other than pink or purple. Her brother…
The epilogue
A reader sent this to me today. It’s a photograph of the epilogue of MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND, which creates quite a stir amongst many readers. I love it.…
