Bob and Cathie A Good Year for the Reservoirs When I was a kid my grandpa lived in southern California and he was obsessed with the Weather Channel. He always seem to be acutely aware of the likelihood of
Ridiculous Confessions (Woot. Strangerville Live is next week. Get your tickets [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/strangerville-live-tickets-55260600945] if you haven't already. Support Jolyn. She supports you.) When
Ridiculous I made cookies to prove to you that I'm not incompetent. Look, I know you people think I'm incompetent. In the kitchen. Shame on all of you who started nodding your heads after the first sentence and before I
Ollie Food Poisoning Matt said he had food poisoning on Saturday, which was annoying because he was supposed to go to a party with me. Skylar was out of town, presumably because he
Ridiculous REST I noticed this tender bump on the back of my head sometime last week so obviously that meant that I was dying. Meg says she's a hypochondriac. She claims to have mastered this. Meg Walter is an amateur. I once saw a
Ridiculous Me When I Was Bad This is my niece, Kate. Adorable, right? Doesn't she just look like someone you would trust with your life? So sweet and sincere. Be ye not fooled. When
Emily Halee From High School We borrowed a stage for Strangerville Live after Meg didn't "want to be murdered" by my attempt to build one [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2018/08/
Strangerville Live A Locked Car A homeless woman got my attention as I was walking to my car. She was blonde and looked a little rough around the edges, but simultaneously kind. She pointed at the car parked in the middle of the street--something very fancy-shmancy, silver,
Ridiculous When Canning Gets Real Everything in my family is a passive-aggressive competition, so that's why I bought 10 pounds of tomatoes this weekend after my mother posted pictures on Instagram of
Medical School White Coat Ceremony Last week I attended something called "white coat ceremony." This is where 150 grown people are dressed by other grown people on a stage in front of a
EMBARRASSING Cringe A few years ago I was talking to my childhood best friend Sam's dad because he had stopped by Bob and Cathie's house for some reason.
Bob and Cathie Counseling: What is your earliest memory? I don't know why it came up but recently I was talking with Skylar about my earliest life memories and he basically called me a liar. I'
Bob and Cathie WHAT IF PAUL SIMON, Oakland Paul Freaking Simon and I made eye contact on Friday night. I'm not kidding you about this. Skylar went to the concert with me even though he was
The Perfects Mr. Pham's Patio Project I told you a little while ago about how I hired Mr. Pham [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2018/04/mr-pham.html] to do whatever the hell he wants with
Emily Mansplaining A few years ago I was at Bob and Cathie's house and I saw Bob's 1968 beautiful green road bike in a pile of junk. I
Ironman St. George Half Ironman, 2018 I hadn't done a triathlon since 2016 when I did the half Ironman in St. George and it was negative eleventy degrees and I was being punished by
Grandma Faceoff Tech Support Two Sundays ago Gmac called to tell me that her "Faceoff is broken," which translates to "I can't log in to Facebook." I was
Ukraine This is Strange I wandered the city of 3 or 4 million people for a couple of hours, stopping in at an internet cafe for a moment to let my friends and family at home know that I had made it. It was Kyiv Ukraine in 2010,
Rebecca The people of My Life You guys. We are in the last days. I don't mean that religiously. Unless you consider Strangerville Live a religious experience, which some do. (I'm referring, probably, to the ones who have shown up at our shows wearing June Snapple
Grandma Neck Flits You should know that THIS FREAKING WEEK we have our next Strangerville Live show. This is the most excited I've been for one of our events, mostly because
Ridiculous By The Way, I Can See Your Underwear A few years ago Matt was at family dinner with me at Bob and Cathie's house. All of my nieces and nephews were there so the place was
Ridiculous The Perils of Sitting in the Exit Row Last month I was in Chicago. I told you about that already because I don't believe in keeping secrets from you. The weekend ended after several days of shenanigans with my childhood best friend Sam (shenanigans=gossiping about everything every person we
The Siblings Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I have a work thing this week in Chicago, or as Bob and Cathie like to call it "DON'T GET MURDERED." I'm staying with
Bob and Cathie The World of Spooks For a long time I have thought about how TV shows from our childhood (I'm assuming every single one of you is exactly my age) are so different
Ollie It's His Dream Come True: Diving Into A Pile of Dogs Matt's birthday was on Monday so we had his birthday party on Tuesday because we're badasses like that. He turned eleventy, but if you hear the
