Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
What is this business about “shopping, typing piece, dinner with E, depressed”? Shopping for what? Typing what piece? Who is E? Was this “E” depressed, or was I depressed? Who cares?
Joan Didion • On Keeping A Notebook
why do we write stuff into our notebooks?
Who cares? - good question to ask in an essay about this piece
For tech-savvy millennials in the late ’90s and early ’00s, burning a CD was the perfect substitute for a hand-written love letter.
Adarsh • The Forgotten Joy of Burning CDs
“Successes are revised mistakes.”
3-2-1: On social skills, gratitude, and making life count
sari is connected to him already
The problem is that when it comes to friendship, we are ritual-deficient, nearly devoid of rites that force us together. Emily Langan, a Wheaton College professor of communication, argues that we need them. Friendship anniversaries. Regular road trips. Sunday-night phone calls, annual gatherings at the same rental house, whatever it takes. “We’re... See more
Jennifer Senior • It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart
love how the events on this page go all the way back to everything she’s done since 1992