David Sedaris's Sorta-Secret Side Career as a Speech Writer for High Schoolers

“Over the years I’ve met quite a few teenagers who participate in what is called ‘Forensics,’” he writes. “Students take published short stories and essays, edit them down to a predetermined length, and recite them competitively. To that end, as part of the ‘Etc.’ in this book’s subtitle, I have written six brief monologues that young people might deliver before a panel of judges. I believe these stories should be self-evident. They’re the pieces in which I am a woman, a father, and a sixteen-year-old girl with a fake British accent.”

I was introduced to Sedaris by the girl I had the biggest crush on in my entire life. She was sitting on the floor reading Naked during our forensics regionals. 

Rumplebomb

Global Villiage

I want to go to there. 

Listening to Gang of Four and dancing like this and also I am in public right now. 

Gus.

I was on a panel at the Broad Art Museum last week. Probably should have mentioned it.

Holly took this picture, apparently. 

DIT Fest  haul. 

Sticker given to me by Mike Watt at Coachella, 2004, placed on my ‘65 Teisco, given to me by my step-father.

Happy Birthday and Rest in Peace, D. Boon. Punk rock changed my life.

This is a video I just watched.

I have always been a big proponent of following your heart and doing exactly what you want to do. It sounds so simple, right? But there are people who spend years—decades, even—trying to find a true sense of purpose for themselves. My advice? Just find the thing you enjoy doing more than anything else, your one true passion, and do it for the rest of your life on nights and weekends when you’re exhausted and cranky and just want to go to bed.

Too real. 

(Source: dawgcomplex)