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Camp Muddy Stream: Part 3/7
Continued from yesterday’s post, Camp Muddy Stream: Part 2… As luck would have it, my best friend, Sarah, and I were assigned to two different tents upon our arrival at Muddy Stream. She…
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Camp Muddy Stream: Part 2/7
Continued from yesterday’s post, Camp Muddy Stream: Part 1… We were moving apartments that summer, and the night before I left for Muddy Stream was the last one I would spend at the…
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Camp Muddy Stream: Part 1/7
I wrote the following story about my first time going to sleepaway camp (an absolutely horrible experience) when I was 24. I actually wrote 10 full-length comedy essays like this one back then,…
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I’m Finally Going to Melt the Skin Off My Feet
I finally bit the bullet and bought Baby Foot (actually, a Baby Foot knock-off), and I can’t freakin’ WAIT to use it. Here’s a link to the original Baby Foot. (Sidenote: now that…
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I Think I Accidentally Bought Poison on Amazon
Rubbing alcohol has always been one of my favorite household items. You can use it for most small sterilization tasks, like sterilizing your tweezers after a rousing session of what some might call…
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My X-Treme Dip Powder Nail Fail
I’ve bitten my nails for as long as I can remember – literally my whole life. I’ve closely examined childhood photographs, and my nails were short and bitten down even then. I’ve tried…
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GTFO This Elevator, Ma’am
I’ve got a little problem on my hands, and I’m hoping one of you will be able to help me out with it. We live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan above…
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Not Cool Beans
As the lockdown here in NYC stretches on and provisions grow thin, I’ve been thinking a lot about what matters most to me. No, it’s not family, or my health, or the fact…
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Things I’ve Bought Online During the COVID-19 Outbreak w/ Reviews: Part 2
March 22nd, Amazon: Mild Cleansing Pleasant Scent Lotion Soap – 1 Gallon One would think that if a product says that it’s 1 gallon, it would be 1 gallon. 1 gallon seemed like…
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Things I’ve Bought Online During the COVID-19 Outbreak w/ Reviews: Part 1
The buying really started in earnest on March 10th, when I realized that if I didn’t buy enough toilet paper and paper towel to tide us over for the next few months, we’d…