HeyJaredJacqueline Novak, Quality Notions
Comedian of GET ON YOUR KNEES, the Emmy-nominated "poetic treatise on the blow job," now streaming on Netflix. "Brilliant" - NY Times. Author, HOW TO WEEP IN PUBLIC: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows. Co-host of Poog.
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Wined Up, Being Slutty with Time (opens the original)
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I like a tart margarita, and I don’t drink wine, but the last few nights, I was inspired at dinner, and I opted in.Floating back to the apartment after, the wine feeling has a soft, warm quality. Different from a tequila cocktail which feels blatant and direct, like a kind of water of clarity in motion, rushing through me Wine feels a little like you’re being tricked, suckered by something like nostalgia. Jacqueline Novak, Quality Notions is a reader-suppo
Quick Note on Cliches as a Sign You’re Close (opens the original)
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Sometimes I’ll feel close to articulating a notion, and as it takes its form, I’ll briefly feel disappointment when I realize I have arrived independently at…a cliche. There’s an instinct to turn on a heel and run from the “trodden ground,” entirely…….butI think it’s a good sign, usually. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TluY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a
“Select from Library” (opens the original)
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Can I Bear Solemn Witness While Snacking? (opens the original)
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An indignity of murder trials is that no matter how disturbing, heart-wrenching or vile a crime, intensity in the courtroom cannot be sustained the entire time. It’s a fact of theater or physics.<img alt="IMG_9037.jpeg" class="sizing-normal" height="245.11742
A Voodoo Doll of Me in the Break Room (opens the original)
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So, last week, I was saying there’s something prim and fearful about my entire approach to posting my stuff on the internet. And how that is exhausting. It was my intended subject, and I promised to come back to it. Let’s get to it…<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ueJh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F782b3715-258e-4e
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