I’m a writer, musician, and photographer in NY ————- I wrote the memoir TO BE HONEST and created the storytelling series THE TELL
Brooklyn, NY
Joined January 2010
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I wrote a memoir about my family’s tragic love affair with honesty called TO BE HONEST. It’s out now from @ABRAMSbooks Here’s the book trailer by Lee Peterkin with music by me!
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Beach Boys falls into that category of songs you try to learn on guitar early on, thinking it’ll be straightforward 3 chord stuff, only to find that it’s operating out on some other compositional plane. How did he make these movements into seamless pop music?
I love when an article is behind a paywall because it gives me a reason to rethink my decision to read something stupid.
A 7-year-old ukulele student asked me if I watched "laughing shows." I asked if he meant comedies. He insisted, "the shows grownups watch where everyone is always laughing." It took me a while but I figured out he meant shows with laugh tracks.
Dad told me people weren't as sure it was funny without others laughing. Even worse, the laugh tracks were often fake. I lost it. "Everybody knows if they think something's funny because they can't stop from laughing!" They shouldn't need a laugh track to know when to laugh!
The thing that bothers me most about death is that we don't get to watch our own funerals. The way everybody reacts to one's death is one of the great legacies of one's life and we don't get to witness it!
When I hear someone announce that they'll no longer tolerate mistreatment from others, I can sense they will still tolerate their own mistreatment of others. And when they encounter someone who won't tolerate being mistreated by them, they will react only with rage and contempt.
It reminds me of how often people who talk about having good boundaries really only mean they expect their own boundaries to be respected. They will consider others' boundaries to be unreasonable and will immediately cross them as a matter of policy.
Sometimes idioms involve word choices that feel like they must intentionally ironic. Who wanted the positive dating phrase "settle down" to include both "settling" and "down" as if to define the whole idea as lowering expectations, taking a step down, giving up what you want?
Don't trust your followers! There are people I follow specifically as a reference for what the craziest people think.