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BEST PARTY, WORST HOUSE is a weekly newsletter by Jennie Egerdie. Every Monday Morning, we’ll kick off the week with funny, true stories of questionable choices, obsessions, and occasionally outright terrible decisions.
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It’s Not Easy Being Green (opens the original)
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Hi new subscribers! A family emergency has kept me from my desk this week, so I’m sharing an essay from last spring. I hope, while reading, it titillate and horrifies you as much as it did for me living it.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lHhU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2518ff43-3e14-45f3-ac30-b36389edc874_1206x
Hunting for Special in an Ocean of Crap (opens the original)
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Personal Update: My new book is available for preorder!!! I’ll write more about it in the coming weeks, but take a look. It’s a joyful, funny bud and I’m proud of it. Subscribe nowNot to be a whiner, but my face hurts and I hate everything right now. I’m sick enough to be in bed, but not sick enough to enjoy it. (I’m the worst type of sick person
The Pros and Cons of Losing My Virginity (opens the original)
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“Sorry to bail, I have Rats and/or Diarrhea” (opens the original)
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In 2012, my college boyfriend Josh texted me last-minute to bail on a party. “Can’t go,” he said. “Chris and I are hunting a rat in our apartment.”Apparently, his roommate Chris saw a rat scurry across his carpeted bedroom floor and, righteously, freaked out. Both boys immediately went into high alert and launched a full-frontal assault on the invading rodent.“We went full Lord of the Flies,” Josh told me the next day, after the war was won.<a class="button primary" href="https://jennieegerdie.s
The Book of Genesis's Genesis (opens the original)
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In the beginning, music was a formless and empty void. Then God created Genesis. And God said, “Let there be Phil Collins,” and there was Phil Collins. God saw that Phil Collins was good, and he separated Phil Collins from the other members of Genesis. God called Phil Collins ‘Phil Collins,’ and the rest of the band he called “The other members of the band, I think that one guy’s name is Tony?” And he was a drummer, and he was a singer— he was both, for he was Phil Collins.<p class="butt
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