Feedback is always good, even when it’s bad.
Last Saturday, Elysha and I produced our first show at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT. It featured a fantastic night of stories and a raucous, sold-out audience. We had…
Just a little mind terrorism
A week ago, a friend was dealing with an impossible situation involving a truly rotten person and asked me for some advice in terms of how to respond to her…
Jesus would not like these Christians
Last week, the Washington Post reported on a Christian school in Kentucky that expelled fifteen year-old Kayla Kenney after she posed with rainbow birthday cake for her birthday. Apparently, this…
Leave my Diet Coke alone
This is a real thing that has happened to me many times. I’m drinking from a bottle of Diet Coke. Standing beside me is someone drinking a coffee. A third…
Your regional dialect does not make you special
As you may know, New Yorkers have an interesting way of stating that they are standing in a singular column of fellow human beings. Rather than saying that they are…
Comedy mastermind
Charlie is a seven year-old boy, so he likes jokes involving poop, vomit, and butts. It’s kind of hilarious but also a little tiresome. Recently I forbade him from using…
Speak Up Storytelling #81: Devan Sandiford
On episode #81 of the Speak Up Storytelling podcast, Matthew and Elysha Dicks talk storytelling! In our follow up segment, we share about upcoming events in the Speak Up realm…
Damn, One Million Moms! You are so damn stupid!
Activist conservative group and rabid anti-LGBTQ bigots One Million Moms (which at best has about 170,000 members) is taking aim at Burger King for using what it calls the "d-word"…
I managed a McDonald’s restaurant last night. I’m so annoyed about it.
I started working for McDonald’s in Milford, Massachusetts in 1987 when I was 16 years-old. Within a year, I was promoted to manager while still in high school, studying my…
Things I Do #15: I worry about the safety of Bruce Springsteen and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I spend a significant portion of my life paralyzed by fear over the thought that Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Bruce Springsteen might someday die. Sometimes I awake in the morning,…
