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Continue reading →: The Real Reason Behind the Fall of Icarus
Let me get this straight, Icarus — we’re to believe that you were smart enough to design a way to fly of your own volition, but stupid enough to fly “too close” to the sun? Uh-uh. I’m not buying that story. Something else went down. A mistake so foolish and easily avoided…
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Continue reading →: Gaslit by Toddlers and Robots
After my 3.5-year-old used the toilet and flushed, I instructed her to wash her hands. “Why?” she said. “I didn’t touch anything.” “You just touched the toilet handle,” I said. She responded, without missing a beat: “It’s an automatic toilet.” My overly confident child thought she could convince me that…
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Continue reading →: A Case of Mistaken Identity and Mistaken Advice
I was supposed to meet a colleague at the cafeteria. I looked across the room and thought to myself, “There she is! I’d recognize that long blonde hair anywhere.” But as I approached, I realized it was a poster. Featuring a plate of spaghetti. That’s when I learned my eyesight…
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Continue reading →: Hot Bunking
Otherwise known as false advertising Here’s a marketing tagline for the US Navy to reel in new recruits: “Join to serve your country. Stay for the hot bunking.” Sounds like a frisky adventure, right? One you’d definitely be interested in signing up for. Alas, it’s false advertising. I learned what…
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Continue reading →: In Pursuit of Standup
I did standup comedy twice this past week in New York City, at Stand Up NY and West Side Comedy Club. The first set I didn’t feel landed with the audience. I got one laugh and one “Woo!” As I drove home feeling dejected, I ate three vegan double chocolate…
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Continue reading →: Birthday Shmirthday
I turned 45 this month. Neither of my parents wished me happy birthday. Their silence carries its own message: “We don’t celebrate your life.” Now, if I were, say, Hitler, I would totally understand. I’d be like, “No offense taken.” I suppose I can’t really blame them. I’m very judgmental…
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Continue reading →: Eating in bed and bombing onstage
I just fulfilled my biggest bucket list item by trying standup comedy tonight at a club in NYC. I was second to last of approximately 25 comics. TJ Miller and Ronny Chieng were special guests. How do you follow them? Several comics didn’t get laughs, so I guess I shouldn’t…
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Continue reading →: Directionally Challenged
The first man in history to get lost and refuse to stop for directions was Christopher Columbus. Headed for India, he stumbled across America and wrongly pronounced its occupants ‘Indians.’ All because of his mistake, indigenous people are still referred to as Indians, or, for slightly more PC folk, American…
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Continue reading →: Training For the Alcoholic Olympics
I tried to become an alcoholic in my early twenties, as I’m assuming most people did. I don’t mean to brag, but I was really good at it. I was the Michael Phelps of drinking, and like him, I wasn’t going for just one medal. I was going for all…
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I’m Angie
Residing in the New York metropolitan area, I spend much of my free time writing. I graduated from Seattle University and regularly return to Gotham Writers Workshop to keep my skills sharp.
Typically writing at the intersection of memoir and humor, I am currently refining several manuscripts that fall into the graphic novel, crime, and science fiction categories.
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