Brain Soup
Pithy dispatches from a comedian whose brain is gooey grilled cheese
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Stepping down to step up (opens the original)
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Last night I co-chaired my last meeting of the Writers Guild of America (West) Committee of Women Writers. A mouthful of a name! It was a bittersweet evening for me, because endings are hard, and beginnings are scary. I stepped down for a few reasons. First because I hate emails. I am sorry if you are one of the 4 people on earth who thinks e-mails are still fun, but they suck ass. I’m sorry, in fact, that so many of you are reading this via email. If I could figure out how to effectively delive
Rising from the ashes (opens the original)
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Hey! I’ve been AWOL from here for over a year. A lot happened in that year and the real reason I stopped writing here was because every time a new thing happened I felt like I couldn’t explain it without the other thing that happened before. So here’s a list.-My dog got very sick with cancer and she died. It was horrible and sad and I will miss her forever. I have never known such grief. I wrote about it a lot privately but it still makes my eyes well with tears to even write this sentence so I
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