#david sedaris

[whoisspence]

matthew gray gubler in 'the learning curve'

it's funny that my teachers never looked like this

#unfair #such a cruel world #i wouldn't focus on anything he said because he's so pretty #i never focused on classes anyways so #david sedaris #matthew gray gubler #whoisspence

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#holidays on ice #david sedaris #short stories #essays #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

I'm going to stop talking about this book on here because it's quite likely that if I say any more about it it will just sound like I'm making fun of it too much, but I really can't stop reading it, I just read the above page and actually started laughing out loud for a solid minute

#david sedaris #it is not uncommon for a person to be destroying by fear #computer generated image #guidance scale 1

[the-land-of-women]

An excerpt from the diaries of David Sedaris:

October 22nd 2022

Jackson, Mississippi

In the lobby of the theater the other night I met a woman who told me, with what seemed like great satisfaction, that she has two daughters both of whom recently came out to her as queer.

I have a real problem with that word, not because it used to be a slur and has been ‘reclaimed’ by people too young to have ever had it hurled at them, but because it’s the fourth time in my life I’ve been rebranded. I was homosexual, then gay, then lgbtq+, now queer. I appreciate that the new word is short but it doesn’t really mean anything in my opinion. I read an interview with a woman who identifies as queer because she is tall. That’s it.

“What makes your daughters queer”, I asked the woman in the theater.

“Well my 12 year old is asexual” she said.

Isn’t that what you would want in a 12 year old? Her other daughter came out as a young woman who’s only attracted to guys she wants to be emotionally involved with. The kind of queer that Christians used to be. And again why the need to come out?

“Mom, Dad, sit down. I have some news for you. I want you to know that in the future, I will only have sex with men who I love. I know this may be hard for you to accept at first, if you have any questions I’m here to answer them.”

How is this not cultural appropriation? The daughters get all of the queerness with none of the very real discrimination that used to come with being, say, an effeminate man or the sort of lesbian to whom people say “excuse me sir but this is the ladies’ room”. Why was this woman I met at the theater indulging her daughters? Why not tell them “I get you want to feel like a misunderstood outsider, but for that to happen you’ll have to go out and actually do something that I, your virtue signalling mother, truly can’t wrap my head around.”

#david sedaris #asexual #demisexual #gay men #queer #diary #homophobia #gay #radfem safe #gender critical #q slur

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[Strange Company]

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“The approach of Christmas signifies three things: bad movies, unforgivable television, and even worse theater. I’m talking bone-crushing theater, the type our ancient ancestors used to oppress their enemies before the invention of the stretching rack.” ― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

#David Sedaris #Holidays on Ice #quotes #holidays #Christmas #Strange Company

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

#short story collection #short story collections #squirrel meets chipmunk #squirrel seeks chipmunk: a wicked bestiary #david sedaris #21st century literature #english language literature #american literature #greek american literature #have you read this short fiction? #book polls #completed polls

[araekniarchive]

hi! would you be able to do a web weave about artists haunting the muse?

U2, The Fly

David Sedaris, Repeat After Me

Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script / Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) dir. Michel Gondry

Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side

The World Was Wide Enough, from Hamilton; written by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Sanober Khan (via)

#webs #web weaving #theme: the written word #theme: subjectivity #theme: art #mine #requests #u2 #david sedaris #(i ended up going down a hole with that one and. i think he is a very good writer but not a very good guy) #lin manuel miranda #charlie kaufman #eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004) #agatha christie #sanober khan

[keepcalmandwritefiction]

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

– David Sedaris

#fiction #fiction writing #the writer life #david sedaris #quotes #kcawf original #writeblr

[oldinterneticons]

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed. - David Sedaris

#david sedaris #quotes

[catmint1]

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

#quotes #david sedaris #let's explore diabetes with owls #self deprecating humor #childish #humor #adulting #text

[a-typewritten-blog]

David Sedaris

#typewriter #typing #david sedaris

[davidhudson]

Happy 66th, David Sedaris.

#david sedaris #literature #comedy

[sleepysera]

"My only comfort was the knowledge that I was not alone. Huddled in the hallways and making the most of our pathetic French, my fellow students and I engaged in the sort of conversation commonly overheard in refugee camps.

'Sometimes me cry alone at night.'

'That be common for I, also, but be more strong, you. Much work and someday you talk pretty. People start love you soon. Maybe tomorrow, okay.'"

-David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)

#books #quote #david sedaris #language #memoir #humor

[fizzreads]

Someone commented on my post about Andrew Rannells’ book that I’d like his first book. I went looking for that on Libby, and found it, but I found this anthology as well. It’s a collection of short stories about food, edited by Zosia Mamet of Girls fame. The stories are written by a wide variety of actors, writers, artists, and performers. Some are short, some are long, some are funny, some are sad. I got the audiobook, and about half of the stories were read by their author, such as Ted Danson or Patti Smith or Kaley Cuoco. The rest were read by people like Busy Phillips or Zosia Mamet. I enjoyed most of the stories. A few weren’t for me. Gabourey Sidibe’s was excellent. Not my favourite, just one that came to mind. Andrew Rannells told of the jello poke cake he always asked his mother to make him for his birthday. It sounded so good that I looked up a recipe for a vegan version and made it the very next day. The kale pesto that Sloane Crowley talked about sounded so good that I took out the written version of the book so I could copy it down. I’ll make that this week.

Update: I used my new food processor for the first time to make the pesto, and it was the best pesto I have ever made. Really.

#my first popsicle #zosia mamet #andrew rannells #sloane crosley #david sedaris #ted danson #gabourey sidibe #kaley cuoco #busy philipps

[spuukiii]

some illustrations i did for a narrative project (based of let it snow by David Sedaris)

#illustration #my art #digital art #artists on tumblr #artist #art #comic #commisions open #david sedaris #illustrator #graphic novel #narrative

[feminist-space]

Tw for description of coercion, reference to rape culture, and exposing someone to illness.

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"One of Dawn's lungs collapsed when she was in her late fifties, so she was super cautious about covid-kept her face covered long after everyone else had returned to normal.

We were in Chicago together, at O'Hare, in the spring of 2022, when I told her she needed to take it off.

"But—" she said.

"Let it go," I told her. "Everyone else has."

I felt like a director coercing an actress to unhook her bra for a sex scene.

"Come on," I said. "You can do this. Start by just ... lowering it to your chin."

She took off her mask, and then of course immediately got covid—a bad case, too. All my fault, but she's never held it against me."

-David Sedaris, How to Eat a Tire in a Year, The New Yorker, January 22, 2024

#tw rape culture #tw coercion #health coercion #covid #covid 19 #covid PPE #david sedaris