HeyJaredAll Kinds of Funny
Life is hard, and it likes to slap the shit out of us. In my experience, looking for the funny takes the sting out of it. So here we are.
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Fisticuffs, Flushes, and Friendships (opens the original)
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Two quick things: My wife brought back a cold from the UK. I thought I dodged it. I did not. So I’m making it a light week and sharing a story I told a while back—a tale of survival, gang initiations, and rising toilet water. Find it after the jump. My dark crime comedy Dig is free on Kindle this week. If you enjoy laughing while people make horrible decisions, it’s probably your sort of book. If you pick it up, and it shows you a good time, a favorable
Upsy-daisy! (opens the original)
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I don’t want to brag about how precocious I was as a boy, but I distinctly remember having this thought when I was about nine years old and one of our neighbors, a new mom, asked if I wanted to hold her baby: It probably wouldn’t go over too well if I accidentally dropped that baby on its head. Like I said, I was wise beyond my years. I politely declined this young mother’s invitation to commit decapitation and dismemberment, grievous bodily harm, and/or death by misadventure. I continued to hol
Valiant (opens the original)
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My wife recently got a company car. It’s a Tesla. I’m not a car guy, and I never have been. The most important feature a car can have, as far as I’m concerned, is no car payment. I drive a Honda Pilot that’s clocked about 230,000 miles, and I plan to see the odometer crank to 300,000. The paint is fading, there are nicks and dents—one from the time I drove away from the gas pump without disconnecting the hose (I was daydreaming about a witch’s dungeon installation I was going to build in our gar
The Art of Conversation (opens the original)
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My wife and I were traveling out of the country recently. One night, we sat in a bar sipping Old Fashioneds, talking and eavesdropping on nearby conversations. We were in an upscale hotel, and you would think this would have meant a higher class of conversation. We were sorely disappointed.The barstool conversations were mostly bad, generated by boring Americans who had no respect for the fundamentals of dialogue: the give and take, the rhythm, the wit, or the details that make language worthwhi
In the Spirit of Acme (opens the original)
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It had been a lovely day up until the point that it happened. I woke up early, fed all the critters, knocked out my daily burpees, guzzled a few cups of coffee, and got a bunch of writing done. After all that, my son asked if we could go see the new Looney Tunes movie, Coyote vs. Acme. So we snagged some tickets online and headed to the theater. Which made for a pretty solid Sunday.When I first started teaching, I included Ian Frazier’s original essay on my syllabus. A legal satire about Wile E.
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