2: you're soaking in it / when you're looking good you're feeling good and when you feel good you look great / Rice-a-Roni the San Francisco treat, saute and simmer flavour can't be beat / I brought the broom! I brought the mop! I brought the pump! The pump??? The Pledge Pump! It's easy, you just pump!
I feel like your wife gives good notes. Soundtrack of my youth: I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and the theme song to The Love Boat and M*A*S*H. Love advice from my BFF’s older sister who was so beautiful she was famous in other school districts not just ours: If a guy doesn’t come around to your side of the car and open the door for you, stay seated in the car until he does. No, you will not look like an idiot. He will.
Alex, think about it right, maybe she was born with it, and maybe it is Maybelline, and maybe BOTH ARE TRUE and the Maybelline adverts were not only your sexual awakening, but an awakening of the soul that lead you to Substack to start with. Riddle me this, riddle me that.
You and I must come from the same place, Alex Dobrenko. Are you just me with a more successful substack? I need to go find my old high school notebook, but I think my take was couldn’t it be both?! She was born with it and then she also added the maybelline!
Anyone else out there remember the M&Ms groovy summer? The song went:
Come with me to the m&ms groovy summer (you could win some cash)
Beautiful m&ms in pretty colors (pretty colors)
Find the bag of all groovy m&ms (dig those groovy m&ms)
And you could win cash every summer for the rest of your life…
Who won? Are they still enjoying the cash every summer?
Every single day, it’s the song that Aladdin sings to Princess Jasmine in the Disney movie, “I Can Show You the World” especially if I’m taking someone on a hike and especially especially if we get to the top of a hill.
this is great: “I write to know what I do not know”
and great questions this week!
"What are you afraid of admitting you do not know?"
INTELLECTUALLY, NOTHING.
PRACTICALLY, SO MUCH!
"what were the commercial taglines and songs of your youth that play unbidden in your mind?"
BY MENNEN
RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU'RE SURE
ZESTFULLY CLEAN
NBC
AND MUCH MUCH MORE
"Does your understanding of relationships sex etc come 100% from ridiculous shit you learned in high school?"
IT ONCE DID, BUT NOW I HAVE LEARNED A LOT MORE FROM PODCASTS LIKE "DEAR THERAPISTS" AND DAN SAVAGE'S "SAVAGE LOVECAST," ALONG WITH WRITTEN COLUMNS LIKE "CAPTAIN AWKWARD" AND "SOCIAL Q'S" AND "DEAR PRUDENCE" AND "SAVAGE LOVE" AMONG OTHERS!
"are you doing okay? what’s it like in there?"
I AM! THANK YOU FOR ASKING! IT'S SOMETIMES BUSY AND COMPLICATED IN HERE, AND IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO CONNECT WITH SOMEONE OUT THERE LIKE YOU!
"Believe it or not, this post took me 19 years to write." that made me snort out loud
in this vein of thinking i think they should bring back the Gillette jingle. masculinity in the 2020s needs something campy and power-ballady to unite everyone together again. GILLETTE! THE BEST A MAN CAN GET! https://youtu.be/M8VZwd72gro?si=aDx5-fSnKPw2pg5Q
1. I realized this morning I wasn't 100% sure what "avant-garde" meant, but it turns out I was like 75% of the way there after looking it up. Still. Shameful.
2. I sing the Gatorade "Like Mike" commercial lyrics like once a month probably just hanging out at my house. I'm not very tall, nor am I very good at basketball at the age of 45.
2: you're soaking in it / when you're looking good you're feeling good and when you feel good you look great / Rice-a-Roni the San Francisco treat, saute and simmer flavour can't be beat / I brought the broom! I brought the mop! I brought the pump! The pump??? The Pledge Pump! It's easy, you just pump!
I feel like your wife gives good notes. Soundtrack of my youth: I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and the theme song to The Love Boat and M*A*S*H. Love advice from my BFF’s older sister who was so beautiful she was famous in other school districts not just ours: If a guy doesn’t come around to your side of the car and open the door for you, stay seated in the car until he does. No, you will not look like an idiot. He will.
Love this
I saw you evacuated to the OC. How are you doing down there?
Exhausted. Thanks for asking ❤️
Oh, gosh. I believe it. Everything is so much more work when you’re not in your own home, for starters… Sending strength. Or rest. xo
Alex, think about it right, maybe she was born with it, and maybe it is Maybelline, and maybe BOTH ARE TRUE and the Maybelline adverts were not only your sexual awakening, but an awakening of the soul that lead you to Substack to start with. Riddle me this, riddle me that.
You and I must come from the same place, Alex Dobrenko. Are you just me with a more successful substack? I need to go find my old high school notebook, but I think my take was couldn’t it be both?! She was born with it and then she also added the maybelline!
Anyone else out there remember the M&Ms groovy summer? The song went:
Come with me to the m&ms groovy summer (you could win some cash)
Beautiful m&ms in pretty colors (pretty colors)
Find the bag of all groovy m&ms (dig those groovy m&ms)
And you could win cash every summer for the rest of your life…
Who won? Are they still enjoying the cash every summer?
Actually it was “Can’t it be love AND Fancy Feast?”
All the dead nurses 😅😅😅
And, I couldn't begin to recount all the commercial taglines and songs of my youth that play unbidden in my mind. It's practically all that's there.
This is random but I can’t find the piece you wrote about switching to a phone that made being on the phone less appealing. I want to reread it.
1. I don’t know
2. IDK
3. I’m not sure.
4. What was the question?
5. Wait for it…. …………… I don’t know, it’s dark in here.
I distinctively remember waiting for the bus one day in year 8, circa 1998 and realising god damn- ‘maybe’ is actually spelt ‘Maybe’ not ‘Mabye’.
In the same bus trip I realise the letter ‘w’ was pronounced ‘double U’, which is how it looks when written #wtf
That when I realised- i have so much to learn, equally terrified and excited!
Every single day, it’s the song that Aladdin sings to Princess Jasmine in the Disney movie, “I Can Show You the World” especially if I’m taking someone on a hike and especially especially if we get to the top of a hill.
I’m most afraid of not knowing what we are going to do for dinner.
dear alex,
this is great: “I write to know what I do not know”
and great questions this week!
"What are you afraid of admitting you do not know?"
INTELLECTUALLY, NOTHING.
PRACTICALLY, SO MUCH!
"what were the commercial taglines and songs of your youth that play unbidden in your mind?"
BY MENNEN
RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU'RE SURE
ZESTFULLY CLEAN
NBC
AND MUCH MUCH MORE
"Does your understanding of relationships sex etc come 100% from ridiculous shit you learned in high school?"
IT ONCE DID, BUT NOW I HAVE LEARNED A LOT MORE FROM PODCASTS LIKE "DEAR THERAPISTS" AND DAN SAVAGE'S "SAVAGE LOVECAST," ALONG WITH WRITTEN COLUMNS LIKE "CAPTAIN AWKWARD" AND "SOCIAL Q'S" AND "DEAR PRUDENCE" AND "SAVAGE LOVE" AMONG OTHERS!
"are you doing okay? what’s it like in there?"
I AM! THANK YOU FOR ASKING! IT'S SOMETIMES BUSY AND COMPLICATED IN HERE, AND IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO CONNECT WITH SOMEONE OUT THERE LIKE YOU!
love and thanks for asking and sharing,
myq
Never be afraid to say, "I don't know." It's dangerous and silly to pretend to know everything.
That silly Chuckwagon dog food commercial is stuck in my head and also the "Meow meow meow" one - I don't think I'm a normal person.
Maybe-lline 🤯🤯🤯
Not a jingle but an infomercial: “Joy Hall calls it The Everything Bag, and it’s the most amazing handbag you’ve ever carried…” it goes on and on.
Fuckin supernatural when a Maybelline jingle helps dismantle my (our?) illusion(s) of separation and free will/certainty🤯
"Believe it or not, this post took me 19 years to write." that made me snort out loud
in this vein of thinking i think they should bring back the Gillette jingle. masculinity in the 2020s needs something campy and power-ballady to unite everyone together again. GILLETTE! THE BEST A MAN CAN GET! https://youtu.be/M8VZwd72gro?si=aDx5-fSnKPw2pg5Q
1. I realized this morning I wasn't 100% sure what "avant-garde" meant, but it turns out I was like 75% of the way there after looking it up. Still. Shameful.
2. I sing the Gatorade "Like Mike" commercial lyrics like once a month probably just hanging out at my house. I'm not very tall, nor am I very good at basketball at the age of 45.
3. Life would be simpler, if so.
4.
5. no clue, idk
I'm not afraid to admit I dont know much. I learn something new every day, many new things really, that all in which make me realize I know nothing.