Kategoria BISAC: Humor >> Form - Essays

People are obsessed with Ryan O'Connell's blogs. With tens of thousands reading his pieces on Thought Catalog and Vice, watching his videos on YouTube, and hanging on to each and every #dark tweet, Ryan has established himself as a unique young voice who's not afraid to dole out some real talk. He's that candid, snarky friend you consult when you fear you're spending too much time falling down virtual...

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Do you want to get to know the woman we first came to love on Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade? Do you want to spend some time with the lady who made you howl with laughter on Saturday Night Live, and in movies like Baby Mama, Blades of Glory, and They Came Together? Do you find yourself daydreaming about hanging out with the actor behind the brilliant Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation? Did you wish you were in the audience at the last two Golden Globes...

In 1983, a young newspaper reporter (and astronaut wannabe) published an essay in which he imagined what it would be like to gaze into his soon-to-be-born child's eyes. Thus began "Thinking Allowed," a weekly column that, over the next twenty-five years, told the stories of an average family with two kids, a golden retriever and a mammoth station wagon with a drooping headliner. The newspaper columns were about the most ordinary things: a toddler foraging through the kitchen trash can, a two-year-old squeezing the last moments out of the day, a mom flinging together the secret ingredients...

...which means he's not an expert on much considering the breadth of his knowledge on that subject fills only a single chapter of a book. However, what Dave Barry is good at is giving unsolicited advice on topics he's definitively not an expert on. In fact, he now has an entire book filled with guidance on things he knows nothing about, including: surviving in the wild, wooing women, cremation, maintaining a scintillating...