Category Archives: Not to Laugh at

Can you be Too Good-Looking?

Posted on June 4, 2012 by bestbathroombooks

I wish this was my problem but it’s not.  It’s someone I know.  He actually asked me to do this blogpost, to write something about him because he reads my blog faithfully on the train as he commutes to SF … Continue reading →

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BBQ Sauce or Blood?

Posted on May 14, 2012 by bestbathroombooks

I just recorded this at NPR studios in SF on Friday.  It’s an example of two styles of writing.  I wrote a blogpost entitled “Hey Crazy Gun Nut Dude!” on this blog in bestbathroombooks style.  Then I wrote this piece … Continue reading →

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Big Asses and Aftershave

Posted on April 17, 2012 by bestbathroombooks

I was in love with a girl in junior high school.  Her name was Tracy.  Brunette cowgirl with breasts too big for thirteen.  I put on aftershave for the farewell dance.  Crimson and Clover started playing, the last slow song … Continue reading →

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Hey Crazy Gun Nut Dude!

Posted on April 10, 2012 by bestbathroombooks

I live in the Bay Area.  We just had a mass killing here in Oakland a few miles from where I work, so I thought I would address the gun issue. We have a sh*tload of guns in America.  I … Continue reading →

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I go into the house

Posted on March 26, 2012 by bestbathroombooks

I go into the house.  I meet the woman.  Her house is large.  It is worth millions.  Her problem is her stone.  She has already used my workers.  They have done their job.  But something isn’t right.  I am there … Continue reading →

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Is a Full Time Gangsta for Real?

Posted on March 12, 2012 by bestbathroombooks

One big leap of faith everybody takes reading this blog is that I actually exist.   It is presumed the things I say here are somehow based on truth (at least a little bit).  I’ve only presented to you the set … Continue reading →

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Hell Yes, H.E. Ellis! The Book Review and Interview by bestbathroombooks.com

Posted on February 25, 2012 by bestbathroombooks

(In a departure from my usual hijinks, I opted to act like a grown up and review/interview blogger and writer H.E. Ellis) H.E. Ellis’ Gods of Asphalt: Book One begins like a David Lynch film—or maybe it’s Quentin Tarantino—splattered in blood with … Continue reading →

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Mental Masturbation Vs. Money

Posted on February 20, 2012 by bestbathroombooks

We blogging writers know one thing more than any other:  What we are doing doesn’t matter for shit.  It is with this comfortable lack of responsibility that we write our hearts out about whatever interests us at this very second—and … Continue reading →

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The Value of Trying

Posted on January 10, 2012 by bestbathroombooks

Here’s the thing: You just have to try.  You just have to put it out into the world.  You just have to get over the fear of what people will think.  You just have to accept who you are.  You … Continue reading →

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Exactly Two Minutes

Posted on November 30, 2011 by bestbathroombooks

No, this is not the story of my sex life.  This is an NPR Perspectives I did about the Age of the Screen.  It aired this morning on the West Coast.   I’ve done a couple of them for NPR before, but what … Continue reading →

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