Tell Me on a Friday #25: Good Intentions Paving Co.
Hi-ho readers, Here I am, dropping in. Here you are. I always liked this Roz Chast cartoon because it’s morbid, funny, and a riff on “turn on, tune in, drop out,” popularized by countercultural psychologist and psychedelic advocate Timothy Leary. I wonder what it says about me that a favorite book of mine as an […]
Tell Me on a Friday #24: Aserejé (The Catch-Up Issue)
Hi-ho readers, If you have a fun and different anagram for the letters “TMOAF,” please let me know because my commitment to Fridays has become frankly horrendous. I am treating this version as a catch-up for June. Next week, I am manifesting sending an issue on the WHOLE MONTH of July, and then hopefully will […]
Tell Me on a Friday #23: Don’t Look Back in Anger…Look Back in Cringe
Hi-ho readers, From the twisted mind of Emily Bergmann comes the 23rd issue of Tell Me on a Friday… on a Saturday afternoon. I HAD outlined it yesterday afternoon but then had a wonderful evening with Zach and Adam at the Whitney Biennial, Cafe Cluny, a kiki on the Christopher Street pier, and Pieces (where […]
Tell Me on a Friday #22: Are you attempting to know me?
Hi-ho readers, Apologies for skipping one week. Seeing you in three isn’t so bad, though. Please address complaints to my assistant (me). I admit I skipped it for two reasons. The first is that the world, especially America, is a horrible place, and it felt challenging to write up my silly little thoughts to all […]
Tell Me on a Friday #21: Panopticon City Mall
Hi-ho readers, So, where were we? I guess the better question is – where was I? I was never consistent with writing biweekly, but two weeks became three, then four, and now it’s been a year and a half since my last letter. Maybe the name should not contain a weekday (or a regular posting schedule). Anyway. […]
Tell Me on a Friday #19: Two knishes passing in the night
Hi-ho readers, The subject line this issue is from a text I sent to Alex when we found out we, both Brooklyn-dwellers, were at Zabar’s within 20 minutes of each other. I did buy a knish but also a lot of expensive cheese and an entire babka. Since we last spoke, I came across my […]
Tell Me on a Friday #18: Poseidon, you sly son of a bitch
Hi-ho readers, Credit for title to Jehan, who yelled that when encountering the extremely large and choppy waves on the Cape. Sorry for accidentally taking a summer vacation from the newsletter. August dragged on and I felt sticky and dumb, but in a pleasant way. I saw more doctors and took more subway rides. I […]
Tell Me on a Friday #17: signed my name in mayonnaise
Hi-ho readers, The title is very strange, but I didn’t sleep last night, and it was a phrase I could not get out of my head.¹ Since I last wrote, I spent one more week at my mom’s and some glorious time at the beach, then I came home and made my first trip into […]
Tell Me on a Friday #16: Failure to communicate
Hi-ho readers, I took a little accidental vacation last time I was supposed to write (I went to my mom’s for the weekend), so I’m sorry for the month long absence. I’m feeling pretty unmoored recently. I’ve been essentially nocturnal and have had real trouble shaking it. I have vivid dreams that I can’t see […]
Tell Me on a Friday #15: Bathtub Full of Flowers
Hi-ho readers, Sorry I am coming to you a little late! I’m not perfect but I am bug-bitten. Today is Juneteenth, which commemorates the day in 1865 on which the Union Army arrived in Galveston, telling the Texas enslaved that they had been emancipated. Two years prior. I went to a majority-white private school in one […]