Updating Romantic Comedy Tropes for Modern Times
Two friends book a cabin with two beds on Airbnb, but upon arriving they realize the second bed is actually a yoga mat with a blanket and pillow.
Alice Lahoda is a writer, comic creator, and occasional shitposter living in Boston. She would happily break her vegetarianism to eat the rich.
Two friends book a cabin with two beds on Airbnb, but upon arriving they realize the second bed is actually a yoga mat with a blanket and pillow.
“Unless you’ve got millions in the bank, any form of routine maintenance is downright unaffordable.”
6. You cannot begin to fathom what you’re supposed to do with the assortment of random parts in the inner pouch.
Spider 8 was banned from Goodreads for her particularly scathing review of Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel.
I was making lemon history while all those other chuds were clogging up the marketplace of ideas with lemonade.
Last year, I met the lovely Emma outside a Concord tavern. She said she liked my tri-corner hat and asked if anything else of mine is tri-cornered.
I did see you hiding (hard to miss the shape of my useless husband with his big dumb flip-flopped feet sticking out from behind the drapes).
I never pay full price for designer perfume when I can buy generic. That’s just common scents.
My job is very cool. (I build snow forts.)
Whoever said “brevity is the soul of wit” never heard my lesser-known belief that in fact, the opposite of brevity (lengthy, meandering wordiness) may truly be at the heart of what many people, such as myself, think of as humorous joke-telling.
Sure, eat the rich if you want… but it sort of seems like an unnecessary extra step.
Welcome to my EDtalk. My name is Ed, and I’ll be speaking to you about what I consider valid and invalid nicknames for Edward.
Beggar: Please, ma’am, I’m so hungry. May I have some food?
Woman: Sure, you can have my granola bar or my Pop-Tart. Your choice.
Beggar/Chooser: Everyone said this is impossible!
Whoever said “actions speak louder than words” must not have heard about shouting.
“I am LITERALLY dying!” a dying woman exclaimed.
“Actually, you are figuratively dying,” a random man corrected her now-lifeless corpse.
Is Harper really that bizarre, or are you just a judgmental prick?
“Ready for our phishing trip, son?”
“I can’t wait, Dad,” the Nigerian Prince replied. “Just one problem: I don’t get my inheritance for a month. Can you send money to tide me over? I’ll pay you back double.”
“That’s my boy,” the King said proudly.
Get Rich Quick Scheme
Step 1: Wait for Rich in the deserted alley behind his apartment.
Step 2: When he appears, swiftly toss him into the back of your waiting van.
Congratulations, you got Rich quick! What you do with him is up to you.