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tacocat  ·  2318 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 22, 2017

Going to a Moth Story Slam again on Monday. Gonna share my tale of woe in front of 50 strangers if I get the chance.





weewooweewoo  ·  2318 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dude, kill it!

tacocat  ·  2318 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I will try. I had to try to put a happy face on some deeply depressing things. Normal people apparently don't like to hear stories of how your entire life shit the bed unless the dry cleaning bill got comped in the end.

weewooweewoo  ·  2318 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The moth thrives on tragicomedy. You gotta make it seem like a complete fiasco

tacocat  ·  2318 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Shouldn't need five minutes for that

lil  ·  2318 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Or unless you make it tragic and funny. After all, comedy is tragedy wrapped in a snowball.

Quiz Question for all of Hubski: what famous Canadian novel involved a premature birth and ensuing disasters because a stone was wrapped in a snowball?

oyster  ·  2318 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah, sounds a lot like Fifth Business and if I didn’t know you had been an English teacher in Ontario before this would have given it away.

lil  ·  2318 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes! Fifth Business! Great book. The stone in the snowball threw several lives off in that book.