Mortified

Author: David Nadelberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416948724
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 393

Book Description
Share the shame. In the days before blogs, teenagers recorded their lives with a pen in top-secret notebooks, usually emblazoned with an earnest, underlined plea to parents to keep away. Since 2002, David Nadelberg has tapped that vast wellspring of adolescent anguish in the stage show Mortified, in which grown men and women confront their past with firsthand tales of their first kiss, first puff, worst prom, fights with mom, life at bible camp, worst hand job, best mall job, and reasons they deserved to marry Simon LeBon. Following the same formula that has made the live show a beloved cult hit, Mortified the book takes real childhood journals and documents and edits the entries into captivating, comedic, and cathartic stories, introduced by their now older (and allegedly wiser) authors. From letters begging rescue from a hellish summer camp to catty locker notes about stuck-up classmates to obsessive love that borders on stalking, Mortified gives voice to the real -- and really pathetic -- hopes, fears, desires, and creative urgings that have united adolescents for generations.

My Mortified Life

Author: David Nadelberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1612437311
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
How Much Have YOU Changed Since Childhood?From the makers of the acclaimed Mortified podcast, stage show and documentary series, this interactive diary is part time machine, part confession booth. Discover how much you’ve changed (and haven’t) as you answer questions about your:• Love life• Family life• Best days• Worst days• Fears• Vices• Unfortunate fashion history (no, that Hypercolor shirt will never be cool again)• And beyond!With prompts that encourage you to compare your life THEN vs. NOW, My Mortified Life is a cathartic way to relive your past, reflect on your present and figure out whether you’re still the same wonderful weirdo you were back in the day.

My Mortified Life

Author: David Nadelberg
Publisher: Ulysses Press
ISBN: 9781612437200
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
How Much Have YOU Changed Since Childhood? From the makers of the acclaimed Mortified podcast, stage show and documentary series, this interactive diary is part time machine, part confession booth. Discover how much you’ve changed (and haven’t) as you answer questions about your: • Love life • Family life • Best days • Worst days • Fears • Vices • Unfortunate fashion history (no, that Hypercolor shirt will never be cool again) • And beyond! With prompts that encourage you to compare your life THEN vs. NOW, My Mortified Life is a cathartic way to relive your past, reflect on your present and figure out whether you’re still the same wonderful weirdo you were back in the day.

Mortified: Love Is a Battlefield

Author: David Nadelberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439188106
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Relive the angst. From starter girlfriends to escapist fantasies to delusional attempts to stand out amongst their peers, Mortified: Love Is a Battlefield revisits the boundlessly embarrassing topic of childhood love, uncovering priceless artifacts of authentic teen angst that tell of unrequited crushes, awkward hookups, odd celebrity infatuations, and all manner of romantic catastrophes. The now older (and allegedly wiser) authors of these letters, lyrics, and journals bravely share their shame in stories that range from sweetly hopeful to borderline psychotic. Everyone who ever obsessed over whether that guy or girl in algebra class liked them, or, y'know, liked them liked them, will relish this funny and touching valentine to our collective past

Mortified

Author: Meredith O'Brien
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939288035
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
In the age of blogs and omnipresent social media, where is the line between laudable, cathartic honesty and oversharing? Maggie Kelly started her personal blog for one reason: to prevent her head from exploding with frustration. She is, frankly, tired of at-home motherhood and weary of her husband Michael's frequent absences due to his workaholic ways. She feels like a hostage to marriage and maternity. So when a friend suggests that she create an anonymous blog where she can complain to her heart's content and not have to hold anything back, "Maggie Has Had It" was born. After her controversial, raw and profane blog posts draw thousands of online readers, Maggie's blogging identity is inadvertently revealed. Michael is horrified to learn that his wife has written, in great detail, about his shortcomings as a husband and, mortifyingly, between the sheets. To make matters worse, it is his mother who tells him about his online humiliation. While many people have been embarrassed by unkind remarks that have been made about them from time to time, few have had those unflattering quips go viral in the way Michael's humiliation does. Mortification in 21st century fashion: via Google.

The Mortification of Sin

Author: John Owen
Publisher: Fig
ISBN: 1619794810
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description

Bourbon for Breakfast

Author: Jeffrey Albert Tucker
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610164911
Category : Austrian school of economics
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
"A compilation of many ... shorter writings ... of his twin loves, libertarian political philosophy and Austrian economics."--Page 4 of cover.

Let's Never Talk about This Again

Author: Sara Faith Alterman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781538748664
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Now in paperback, Samantha Irby meets Bettyville in this darkly funny and poignant memoir about love, loss, Alzheimer's, and reviving her father's pornographic writing career, from writer and Mortified liveproducer Sara Faith Alterman. Twelve-year-old Sara enjoyed an G-rated existence in suburban New England, filled with over-the-top birthday cakes, Revolutionary War reenactments, and nerdy word games invented by her prudish father, Ira. But Sara's world changed for the icky when she discovered that Ira had been shielding her from the truth: that he was a campy sex writer who'd sold millions of books in multiple languages, including the wildly popular Games You Can Play with Your Pussy. Which was, to the naïve Sara's horror, not a book about cats. For decades the books remained an unspoken family secret, until Ira developed early onset Alzheimer's disease . . . and announced he'd be reviving his writing career. With Sara's help. In this cringeworthy, hilarious, and moving memoir, Sara shares the profound experience of discovering new facets of her father; once as a child, and again as an adult. Let's Never Talk About This Again is a must-read confessional from a woman who spent years trying to find humor in the perverse and optimism in the darkness, and succeeded.

You Are Having a Good Time

Author: Amie Barrodale
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374293864
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207

Book Description
"An observant, strange, and startlingly funny collection of short stories"--

Miss Fortune

Author: Lauren Weedman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101620560
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Los Angeles Times Bestseller For fans of Jenny Lawson, Sarah Colonna, and Lena Dunham, an acutely-observed and hilarious take on what happens when life doesn’t end up quite as you’d expected. “Gloriously smart, deeply funny, and nakedly vulnerable … I laughed. I cried. I thanked my lucky stars I didn’t ever have a threesome with co-workers in the Netherlands. But most of all, I fell in love with Lauren Weedman and the raw and complicated truths she so honestly explores on every page.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of the New York Times bestseller Wild Lauren Weedman is not okay. She’s living what should be the good life in sunny Los Angeles. After a gig as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, she scored parts in blockbuster movies, which led to memorable recurring roles on HBO’s Hung and Looking. She had a loving husband and an adorable baby boy. In these comedic essays, Weedman turns a piercingly observant, darkly funny lens on the ways her life is actually Not Okay. She tells the story of her husband’s affair with their babysitter, her first and only threesome, a tattoo gone horribly awry, and how the birth of her son caused mama drama with her own mother and birth mother, all with laugh-out-loud wit and a powerful undercurrent of vulnerability that pulls off a stunning balance between comedy and tragedy.