They are shaping me into someone who exercises regularly.
They called me insane. They explain the adjective has been chosen for me for the ominous associations it will raise in America’s psychologists.
A hugsploration unleashed.
When you woke up this morning, did … did you feel different? The air seemed brighter, and the light seemed fresher. When you pulled the curtains back, did … did you tingle? There’s something in our atmosphere today that wasn’t there before. It’s not the anthrax, and it’s not the botulism. It’s something more ephemeral. Something glittery and beautiful and sexy, all at once, if that’s possible, and I think it is. No, that something something with the extra something something is a new podcast, a podcast called Shirtless Hugging, by me, and some other folks.
You can try to write a poem.
I made you, you dear reader, a poem about the ocean. It is not safe for work. Yes. That is how good it is.
Thank you to @PrashanthK and @dtrinh for contributing.
Pins.
The Watergate scandal almost never happened when Nixon’s cronies refused to break into the hotel with dry lips and an upcoming deadline for their podcast, Moisturizing with the President’s Right Hand(s). Fortunately, Nixon managed to kill both birds with one stone (via the U.S. Fucking Criminal Justice System).
Life after death.
An excerpt from This American Life’s “Life After Death” episode:
Darin Strauss does indeed have a new book out, More Than It Hurts You.
